Christmas Carols, Audrey style

ok, I couldn't resist sneaking up on Audrey...
yes she is watching herself in the reflection of the tv screen

Funny things the kids have been saying...

Audrey climbed onto my bed this morning scowling after Lili had left for school and I was nursing Kateri. She had come give me a list of grievances.
"First, you and Daddy say I can't wake up Nanny. Next, say I can't watch cartoons. Three, you not let me play 'puter games every day" She frowned and put her hands on her hips "That's why!"
"Why what?" I asked
"Why I want to do what I want to do!"

Lili was telling me about how next year she gets to have Mrs. Hundelt teach her religion again. "And then," she said "I get to return to my classroom of old!"

Kateri smiling

At Nanny's request, here's a video of Kateri...sorry it is a little shaky at the beginning...Lili was the cameraman.

At Least She's Honest

Kateri was sleeping peacefully in her swing when I left the room. A few minutes later I heard her fussing and came in to find Audrey standing over her smiling.
"Why is the baby crying, Audrey?"
"Because I kiss her too hard"
"Where did you kiss her?"
"Everywhere!"
Still smiling, she went to her self-imposed punishment in her room

During a conversation yesterday about why she was having a hard time listening she said, "I only want to be good sometimes, the other times I going to be funny and naughty."

Kateri is getting fat

She looks like Lili did as a baby when she's being serious...and when she smiles she looks like Jabba the Hutt.

Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha

Lili has been practicing her All Saints Day Presentation. This year she has chosen Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha in honor of her new baby sister. Her favorite aspect about the life of Blessed Kateri is the miraculous disappearance of her smallpox scars upon her death. She is already fantasizing about the audience reaction to her next experience in the spotlight and asked me the other day, "What if when I say, 'her scars disappeared, everyone in the audience went like this >GASP<"

Audrey's Halloween Plans

Apparently Audrey is planning on being three different things for Halloween...I guess she will do a costume change every couple of blocks...or maybe it is all part of a plan to hit up the same houses three different times. Anyway, she wants to be Yoda, Darth Vader, and Lucy Pevensie...here's a little preview. Nanny sent the Darth Vader costume, and when Audrey tried it on she burst out, "Oh my---I look GORGEOUS!!"