Hip Hop A-dog and Micah's "Blue Steel" look

Amelia has been listening to my Ipod a lot lately and recently put on a hat I use when working in the yard and some broken sunglasses. It was quite the look and then Micah jumped into this photo with with Zoolander-esque look of "Blue Steel."

So clean I could cry

Amelia was looking a bit teary-eyed when I came downstairs at one point this afternoon. I asked her if something was wrong. With words that sounded like they were full of emotion, she shared that she was just so happy that someone had cleaned up her room.

4 is tough

Amelia: "Brody, do you want me to tell you all about being 4?"
Brody: silence
Amelia: "It is hard - you have to fight a lot."

Electropied

Last night at swim lessons, Micah had a nasty case of the hic-cups. The kind that hurt in your chest. He kept telling me his hic-cups hurt his heart. On the way home from swimming, he said that it felt like a cord inside him came unplugged and that he felt like he was electropied. I thought I might have heard him wrong, but he clarified that it felt like it would if you were holding a metal bar and unplugged something (he thinks you will receive an electric shock if this happens because of an old story involving his grandma who received an electric shock a long time ago although that wasn't the exact circumstance). "You know.....like getting electropied." I didn't correct him because it is just too cute!

Christmas

Cookies for Santa and carrots for the reindeer

Brody serves breakfast

Brody has taken to helping himself to cereal and anything else in these cupboards. Although he is eating off the floor, at least he had the self-respect to find a spoon to use. We're not animals here!

An old moustache

In the van today -
Amelia: Dad, how old will Brody be when I'm thirty a thousand?
Me: People usually don't live long enough to be a thousand.
Amelia: How old will Brody be when I'm 100?
Me: He'll be 97.
Amelia: I bet he'll have a moustache then because that is old.