Update

I have been neglecting my blog lately. Hmmm....Let's see....what's interesting?

I slept for 15 hours last night - from 7:30PM - 10:30AM. I have a little sore throat and Jeff has a little runny nose and Will has a little sore throat and Kira is a little off kilter so I think we're all fighting something off but - it's little - not big - so we're fine. I bet that sleep helped!

We put up our Christmas tree today! We got a real one this year! Yahoo! I love breathing in that fresh pine scent. It's not decorated yet though. We'll get to that tomorrow. Will can't wait until Christmas and has wrapped his plastic bowling pins as a present for Jeff. He wrapped my slippers as a present for me. I wrapped Kira's "go dogs go" book as a present for her (wrapped in paper towels). I wrapped Will's stickers and some Kit Kats as a present for him (wrapped in tinfoil). We'll open our previously owned gifts tomorrow morning.

I'm thinking of skipping the Christmas cards this year. Not feeling it. What's one year? We'll see...

Will is now a size 6 jeans. He completely grew out of his size 5 jeans - ankles showing and all. Amazing!

Will has a LOOSE TOOTH in the front bottom. He's very excited about that.

Kira is just a crazy little thing. Seriously. She's going to need to be enrolled in dance class ASAP...this girl loves music and movement so much!

Kira LOVES having books read to her lately. She loves her books!

She says "TREE" now. I suppose when there is a big Christmas tree in your living room it is easy to learn that word.

We bought a new star for the top of the tree. I wanted to return it because it just doesn't look right but Will says every time he looks at it - it reminds him of God and Jesus - so we'll keep it.

I told him years ago that Santa wasn't real because I couldn't stand lying to him but I think he forgot. He told me a few nights ago that he isn't quite sure if Santa is mom and dad or if Santa is real but he's thinking Santa is real. So we talked about how fun it is to believe in Santa. He asked Jeff about it today and Jeff told him "Of course Santa is real." Will said happily, "Okay, if you say so!" So that's fine. Santa is real. We do believe!

Kira's hair is a disaster. I'm not one to put barrettes in a baby's hair but in retrospect that would have been a good idea. Her hair is so long and keeps getting in her eyes and she really needs to have it clipped back until it grows out a bit longer but she isn't used to having anything in her hair so now she won't leave them in. We've been practicing putting barrettes in - hoping that one day she'll leave them in. Will wore a barrette today. Kira had one in for a few minutes. I put six in my hair. Nothing is working. Maybe if we all wear barrettes every day - she'll eventually keep one in.

Kira had her first candy cane today. She tried to share it with her stuffed bunny. It was very sweet.