Priceless

A box of Reynolds aluminum foil: $6
A pair of underwear: $ 2
A small baby doll: $10

Using that box of foils as a bed and blanket for your doll while wearing your sister's dirty underwear on your head: PRICELESS

I love how kids can take things that are so simple and everyday, sometimes even completely useless, and rarely resembling an actual toy, and turn them into something that is suddenly incredibly entertaining. When Allison put Juliet's underwear on her head she was so proud and said "Nice hat!" Then she proceeded to make her doll at home in a box of foils I actually use to do highlights and even used one piece of foil as a blanket. As adults, along with losing our innocence, we lose so much of that ingenious creativity. No longer are we satisfied with such simplicity. Suddenly we need the latest and greatest gadgets, extravagant vacations, and engaging activities. Would an adult be able to turn a comb, an old sock, and an empty box of cereal into an interesting and exciting game of adventure, mystery, and discovery? I think not, but I know for a fact that my two year old can!

Happy Hands Club

I think Napoleon Dynamite is probably like the best movie ever made. Juliet loves the movie and understands the humor in it so the two of us go back and forth quoting lines and cracking each other up like a couple of junior highers. It is the most quotable movie ever so if you've never seen it then your missing out! Gosh!

Ahhh! Cookie Monster!

If you click on the audio clip above, you will hear Allison's impression of cookie monster. She's something else!

Two Time

I'm such a sucker for good pictures of the girls. I need more stories and less pictures. I'll work on that. Allison will be two in less than two weeks. She will graduate from the nursery at church and be in the toddler (two and three year old) class. We won't have a party for her this year-she can hate me for it when she's fourteen- instead the four of us will go to Buckaboo Creek for dinner with the singing animal heads. Now that spells F-U-N!