Carson prayed on Christmas Eve that we would remember and be thankful for Jesus on Christmas Day. In Devon’s Christmas Eve prayer he said, “Bless us to remember it’s what you give, not what you get.” When Carson woke up on Christmas morning, he came in our room and said, “I heard the prancing and pawing of each little hoof.” Then he told us he had to get up to use the bathroom at night, but then said, “But Santa knows that kids have to use the bathroom, so he still came I think.” When Bailey opened her bassinet, she put her doll in and kept saying, “Sweet dreams, dolly.” Bailey was sad that Dillon was going to work. She gave him a hug, suddenly stopped crying, patted Dillon’s cheeks and said, “I’ll work for you!” Then opened the door to go outside. I am pretty sure she thought she was going to work with him that day. It was so cute because it’s like it never occurred to her and she thought she’d solved all her problems. Bailey got a new book for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa Hurst. She loved it when we read it to her. The next night she told Dillon she would read it to him. So she laid down on her bed in just her diaper, opened the book, and pretended to read it by saying, “This is the best. book. ever.” She’s so funny! Bailey heard something upstairs and said, “Is it Daddy?!” I said no and she said, “It’s Santa!” Bailey loves Little Einstein and it has a song on there that says, “purple plane purple plane to the rescue!” So I was putting on Bailey’s pants and she started to sing, “purple pants, purple pants to the rescue!” When we woke up to snow I excitedly told the kids that it snowed. Carson looked out the window and said, “It’s snowing! See Devon? We’re saved for goodness sake!” If you tell Bailey that something has germs and it’s yucky she’ll say, “Germs? Oh! I love germs!” Bailey is getting SO independent and doesn’t want to sit in her carseat. Dillon told her she’d get hurt and said, “Do you want to get hurt?” She said, “No.” mopingly. So he sat her in her carseat and started to buckle her and she said, “I WANT TO GET HURT! I WANT TO GET HURT!!!” Bailey will tell us what animal she wants next in Old MacDonald, like cow or duck or whatever. So Dillon paused for her to fill in the blank and she said, “Dude.” When we are racing, Devon will say, “First one there is a rotten egg!” So I said, “A rotten egg? I don’t think people want to be rotten eggs.” So he said, “Oh, I mean scrambled egg!” Bailey says Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy, but instead of that says, “Easy Devon Squeezy” Devon told me yesterday, “Mom, do you know what slug means, because I do.” I asked him what he thought it was and he said, “Slug means kiss.” I said, “So in Charlie Brown when they say you stop this or I’ll slug you, it means they’ll kiss you? And it’s bad?” He said, “Yah, they’ll give you a bad kiss.” Bailey and I were walking through the produce section at Walmart. She started smiling, then giggling, then laughed, throwing her head back even. Then she told me, “Bananas are funny.” I told Devon he couldn’t play on the computer. He said, “Why mom, we haven’t forever. You’d be the bestest mom ever if you let me.”