Girly girl

Today Halle said to me "Mom, I want three bows in my hair today and they all have to have pink." 

Unique names

Halle comes up with some very unique names for her little stuffed animals. Meet Bucket (the bear) and Catchy (the caterpillar). 

Cutest brother and sister

These two are the cutest little friends. They were playing extra cute tonight, playing for about two hours straight without any little tiffs. They had probably about thirty stuffed animals and dolls all set up that were their "babies" and they were playing mommy and daddy. Then they had me record a video of me singing "silent night" on my phone that they could play for their babies for a lullaby to put them to sleep. 

After awhile they ran in and told me that for Christmas they want rings they can give each other so they can get married. Oh so cute. They haven't talked about marrying each other for awhile...I think they both have kind of caught on that brothers and sisters don't marry each other. But I thought it was so cute that after they played together for so nicely tonight that they were back to thinking that. So sweet and innocent. 

I love these kiddos so much! They make me so happy and I feel so lucky to be their mom. There's nothing else in the world I would rather be. I know I am by no means a perfect mom but I hope they understand how much I love them and that they are the most important things to me on the world. ❤️

Coin, toilet, money and ring adventures in St. George

Luke has been really into money and coins lately. Last week his teacher Mrs. Elder told him that the 50 cent coin is the rarest coin because they don't make it anymore. Luke remembered that and told us when he got home.

When we were in St. George last weekend Cory remembered he had a few 50 cent coins in his old room down there. He found them and gave the kids each a couple. Luke was totally thrilled with his 50 cent coin and carried it around all day. He wouldn't let it out of his sight. 

Later that night I was gone with my mom and aunts and cousins for my Haslam's girls trip. Cory was at Fergusons house with the kids and it was sometime after dinner and Cory thought the kids were back in his parents room playing or watching TV or something. All the sudden he heard a blood-curdling scream from Luke. Cory shot up and ran back to see what was going on, thinking someone must have gotten really hurt or something. He could hear the scream was coming from the bathroom and ran back to see the kids both standing over the toilet. Luke was screaming, Halle had her hand reached into the toilet. Halle had first of all gone potty in the toilet (#2 no less), and then to tease Luke, had taken his 50 cent coins from him and thrown them into the toilet with her poop she hadn't flushed! Of course Luke was having a come apart and when Halle saw how upset he was I'm sure she didn't want to get in trouble and hurried and reached in there to get the coins out. Cory walked in right as she was fishing her hands around in there. Since she already had started Cory had her finish the job and get the coins out of the poopy toilet. Hahaha, and, yuck! 

After the coins were out and Cory had settled things down between the kids he saw that Luke was holding a 100 dollar bill. He asked Luke where he got it and he said, "Oh, just out of the basket in grandma and grandpa's closet." Which the must have had to climb to get to because it is pretty high up in there. 

Then Cory noticed Halle what appeared to be one of his mom's diamond rings (it must have been on the hand she wasn't using to fish the coins out of the toilet). "Halle, where did you get that ring?" he asked. 

"From the basket in grandma's closet," she answered. "This is the ring Luke asked me to marry him with."

Ahh. It all came together at that point. 

Cory called me that night and relayed that story and all I could do was shake my head and say, "see what kind of stuff happens when I'm not around!" 

New middle name

Over the weekend we were down in St. George. As we were leaving Grandpa Dave was talking to Halle and said, "Hey, Halle London..."

Then she interuppted him and said, "I changed my name, grandpa. It's Halle Christmas Lights." 

Funny girl! 

"Girl time" with my favorite girl

Today it was a sunny 65 degrees and felt wonderful. While Luke was at school Halle wanted some "girl time". At first we were going to watch a girl movie together but then she said "mom, let's go enjoy the great doors together."  I think she meant the great outdoors :).

So we sat outside on the back porch with our sunglasses on talking and soaking up the sun for a good hour. It was a lovely day and I loved every minute spending some "girl time" with my favorite girl.

Oh what would I do without my Halle girl? She is the cutest, sweetest and spunkiest girl and I love her so very much. She makes me happy. 

New Year's Eve

We had fun ringing in the New Year at Cory's aunt Kaye's annual New Years Eve party. The kids had fun playing with cousins and eating treats. Halle is so social and uninhibited whenever we get together with extended family she runs right off with all the kisds and has a great time. At about 11:30 both kids were getting really sleepy and Halle zonked. She fell asleep in my arms but she kept trying to stretch out so finally I laid her down on the floor and she stayed there laying on the middle of the floor sleeping until we left. Maybe next year she'll make it to midnight! :)