Jenny funnies

Jenny will start to have a hissy fit and often gets sent to her room. i tell her that i will come talk to her when she stops crying (aka lecture her). this is a common routine. sometimes she will stop crying and call for me, or poke her head out of her bedroom door, and she will quietly say:
"momma, i think i can control myself now"

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reading "the Christmas story" golden book about baby Jesus:

Jenny is very concerned about all the townspeople of Bethlehem not having any shoes on. also discussed are concerns about bare feet of angels and shepherds.

then the footwear of Mary, Joseph, King Herod and the wise men is critiqued and admired.

another point of interest is the wise men having only one camel. she is worried about the 2 wise men who travel on foot.

me---------"well maybe they take turns riding."
jenny------"yeah, one can ride in front and then the other one gets a turn riding in the front."

and then referring to the staff (or walking stick) that one wise man is holding:

jenny------"and they can take turns holding the stick"

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today my girl had some of the "random pukes" as we call it. she is just now at this age agreeing to puke in a toilet. this is a wonderful thing. for a long time i was just glad i had talked her into puking into the tub. i'm a little confused but i think if she had her way she'd like to simply puke into a towel. (horrors)

ANYWAY, today i got a real newsflash that she is growing up b/c:

1. she did not even tell us she was headed to puke, she just ran to toilet with hand over mouth
2. she made it to toilet 2 out of 2 times
   
3. she shut the bathroom door for these events
4. she quietly puked without any screaming or tears afterward
5. she managed to do this fully dressed up like princess even in her high heels/tiara

i'm getting the feeling she is gonna be one heck of a woman.

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today we put up our tree. we spent a portion of the day making room in our den for the tree. finally will brought it in. it is pre-lit. awesome.
we set it up and the kids' eyes were big as saucers. this was right before naptime. i told Jenny we would put the ornaments on right before bedtime. she was totally thrilled that "Christmas is here".

she was a little confused that Santa was coming while she slept. we told her several times that it is a couple of weeks til Santa visits.

I put Troy in his crib for nap and took Jenny to read a book and tuck in for nap. Will headed out to Taco Bell to get us some lunch.

Later Jenny was still not asleep when Will returned from town. She rarely will come out of her room at sleep time. but she heard the garage door and sacks rustling in the kitchen. we heard her tiny voice from the hall:
"Santa? is that you?"

and then when it was time to wake from nap and get ready for church, she sat on the end of her bed, looking up at me with sleepy, hopeful eyes and said:
"did i get presents??!"