What a big helper :-)

I was sitting at the computer eating a bag of chocolate chips. For some reason this seems more healthy to me than eating "regular" candy, as this is a baking ingredient... I'm sure my logic is flawed, but whatever helps me sleep, right? Avery asked me for a "chocklit." Then she said, with a big smile, "Hayden wants one! I'll take it to her!" Nice try, kid. I'm hip to your game.

Perhaps a career foreshadowed?

Avery loves getting into the dirty laundry and adorning herself with various articles, then proclaiming herself to be certain things. Last night she came out with one of Wade's white t-shirts wrapped around her head. "I'm an astronaut!" I asked her what an astronaut was, and she said, "They fly in a space ship. Avery is an astronaut." If this is a life goal, I sure hope she's better at physics than I was!

She talks in code

Avery and I were sharing a pop-tart for breakfast, which I was eating over a bowl to avoid crumbs on the couch. After it was all gone, she told me, "I want the baby bites!" I repeated to her several times that the pop-tart was all gone, and we could eat something else, etc. She kept saying she wanted the "baby bites." Finally she took the bowl from me and licked the crumbs out. "See Mommy, I ate the baby bites!" At least she's not wasteful!

Sister Photos (or, Group Torture)

Yesterday a lovely woman from our church came to our house to take pictures of the girls. I chose this option for several reasons. It was cheap. I didn't have to leave our house. I get a cd and copyright to do with the pictures what I please. And did I mention I didn't have to leave our house? I thought "How hard can it be to get a some pictures of your kids?" Turns out... it's hard. A two year old and a one month old (for various, different reasons) are not really great photo subjects. The two year old said (repeatedly) "NO! I don't want my picture!" and the one month old (when we tried to get cute naked baby shots) screamed until she turned beet red and had real tears streaming down her face. Thankfully, this lady was very patient, and she did manage to get some good shots. For your perusal...
www.kimwhitephotography.com
Go to "online images" and click on "Avery and Hayden." The password is our last name. Enjoy! (Oh, and I was not planning on being in any pics... hence the tank top. We'll not be printing those!)

I do love him.... BUT...

You know how most people have pictures of their children, or pets, or perhaps warm, tropical vacation locales on their desktop? Not us. Nope. We have the Purdue men's basketball team... in all their glory. What can I say, folks? It's deep and it's real.

My Kid is Weird, Part II

Last night I was in the bathtub, happily reading my magazine, and enjoying my 20-30 minutes of kid free time. Avery strolls in, holding a piece of bread. (She likes to eat plain bread. And don't even suggest she eat something on it. "JUST bread!" will be the reply. I feel like I should lock her in a dark basement or something while she consumes her lonely little piece of bread.) She looked at me, tore off a piece of bread and threw it in the water with me, and said, "You're a duck! QUACK, QUACK!" Ummm.... right. To my knowledge, she has never fed ducks by throwing bread in the water, so I'm not sure where that came from. Again... she is weird.

Christmas is not ruined! :-)

It wouldn't have been ruined, but I would have been disappointed. I ordered this play kitchen for Avery in September. http://www.furniturebuzz.com/products/KidKraft/53160.htm
I was very excited about it, because she's super into pretend play right now, so I know she will love it. Furniturebuzz so kindly charged my credit card back in September when I ordered it, so I was stressing that if it didn't arrive, too much time would have lapsed for me to file a dispute with my credit card company. This would have left me with no Christmas present (and it's basically all she's getting) and no money to replace said present. Happily, it arrived on my doorstep on Friday. I can now stop stressing about it. Oh, and Furniturebuzz sent me an email today telling me it had been shipped. Thanks for the update, Furniturebuzz! Way to be on top of your business! Now Wade just has to put it together. Mommy does the shopping... I don't build the toys :-)