ideas of order: "We are Santa's Elves"

Monday, December 10, 2007

"We are Santa's Elves"

Katie looked smashing on Sunday in her brand new Christmas outfit from Grandma Shepherd. Some thought she looked like Santa in a dress, but I prefer to think of her as a helper elf.
Katie started chewing on her hat during sacrament meeting and Emily (Hymas) in the next pew was very concerned that she was eating it. Emily implored her Dad to get Katie to stop. It would, after all, be very distressing if Katie were to try to pass it through her digestive tract. Luckily, Katie approached her hat as a wine connoisseur approaches his next glass--as something to be savored, not swallowed.

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Nice3 said...: She's pretty dang cute. Mom printed the picture off and is displaying it at all Christmas parties.; December 14, 2007 at 12:56 PM

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Ivy (after church): Guess what!!
Dad: What?
Ivy: Rich Blessings are in stores!

Dad: This is good country music, right?
Kids nod or give some sign of assent.
Dad: You know some people don't like country music.
Nathan, thoughtfully: Oh, is that why they made cities?

Nathan to Dad: "Pretty lively for a man your age. 30 years old. Pretty lively."

Nathan: "...great, great, great, great Grandpa. He's so old, he died already!"

Nathan: "That smells like Grandpa Shepherd!"
Mom: "What smell?"
Nathan: "That smell! You know, hair...whitish...oldish..."

Nathan: "What would you like, sir?"
Katie: "Water and cake."
Nathan: "We only have water. That's the problem."
Katie: "Oh... I just want cake then."

Katie (as Nathan & Dad are wrestling on the living room floor): I'm going to go wrestle with the boys. Hi-ya! (She said the last as she dived head first into the mix.)

Katie tends to add consonants to words that end in vowels. My favorites: shampoop & tu-tut (you know, tutu with a t).

Nathan: Mom, why does "shampoo" have the word "pooh" in it?

Mom: Nathan, do you want me to listen while you say your prayers or do you want to say them after I go?
Nathan: All this answering is giving me a crick in the neck!

Nathan: What are you doing?
Dad: Making bagels.
Nathan: You don't know how to make bagels.
Dad: Yes, I do.
Nathan: Do you have a recipe?
Dad: Yes.
Nathan: Hey, what's the bagel idea?!

Dad: If you get burned badly enough, you can die.
Nathan: Did you get burned badly enough and die?
Dad, in an ironic tone: Did I die?
Nathan: Well, did ya?

I was playing with Nathan & Katie and pretending to be their sister. A little while into playing, Nathan decided that I would be "Emily," then said, "Hi, Emily--girl that I was going to marry. I'm sorry I can't marry you now that you're my sister."

During Nathan's nightly prayer:
"Help me to love Mommy as much as you do."

During the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, Nathan saw a balloon of Spongebob and called out, "Spongebob Cheesepants!"
Later, we saw Snoopy. This time he called out, "Snowplow!...uh, what's his name?"

Nathan: "Stuffed animals chase bad dreams away. Didn't you know that?"

Katie, making the sound of a doorbell: "Ping-pong."

Usually, it's not so much what Katie says, but how she says it. Like a little mimic--or, more appropriately, a little mommy. My own mini-me. Gushing: "I so happy to see you!" Stern: "Nathan!" Sweet: "Hi, gorgeous!"

Monday, December 10, 2007

"We are Santa's Elves"

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