Here is Anna's attempt at Joy to the World. Too young for words, but she had some movement! Wonder who she gets that from? Anna did a great job. I didn't get video of it, but at the end she stood there and clapped for everyone and said "yeah!" She was excited to see me when I went to get her off the stage, but a little hesitant. I walked her back to where we were sitting. She didn't want to sit down. She kept pointing to the stage saying "there" and trying to get down. Basically, Anna didn't get enough of being on stage and wanted some more. We had to find a way to keep her occupied for another 20 minutes or so until Brady was up. It worked out for us, just barely. During Brady's videos you can hear Anna fussing. Isn't that was siblings are for?

Joyful Song

Brady will be an angel in his Christmas program this Thursday night. Tonight we did a little dress rehearsal in his angel outfit. I made it out of a sheet. The school provides the wings and halos. Aunt Christy is in town and can't stay for the show. He wanted to show off his singing abilities for her. He is doing another song, but I wasn't sure which one. We will have the camcorders ready Thursday night!

The roars in the background noise are Chris and Anna playing one of their silly games. They didn't know that Brady had just hopped up on the hearth and wanted to sing. I didn't have time to tell them to be quiet. Luckily I had the camera ready to record him. You can tell Chris and Anna were having fun.

Anna's complete sentence!

Mother of two, so what I do for one I must do for the other. Really though I need to blog about Anna's first sentence last night. She has been talking much more and repeating anything you say. Right now Anna is more of a one word or two kind of girl. Although she can put some hurt on her Brown Bear book, Bright Baby first words and animals books. Chris is on a hunting trip and he's the one that reads to Anna each night and puts her to bed. I was worried how Anna would do for me along with Brady. So we read Brown Bear, First Words and then Animals. I said "well it's time for night-night." she seemed very confused and kept saying "daddy, book, read, daddy, book, read, night-night." I tried explaining that daddy wasn't home and mommy read books and now it's time for night-night. she was contemplating getting in her bed or not then looked up at me. she said "daddy's not home." YEAH! at least this was the first time i remember hearing her say her own true sentence without repeating it right after us. then, she happily went off to bed.

Kids say anything...

Today I had a friend ride with me to lunch. In my passenger seat I had a jacket, some scarves and random things that had collected on the seat. I just put those things behind the seat and didn't think anything of it. This afternoon I picked up the kids as usual. Put Anna in her seat first and walked around to Brady's side to buckle him in. This afternoon the temp dropped about 30 degrees so I'm freezing waiting on Brady to put up his backpack and said "hurry up!" Brady responds with "Mom, all this stuff on the floor is ridiculous!" Astonished me says "WHAT?" He explains "this stuff on the floor, its too much, its ridiculous!" I'm just thinking, did he really use that in a sentence twice?! So I respond "it's ridiculous, huh? what does that mean?" Using lots of hand gestures and his way of telling a story he replies "you know, it's ridiculous mom. we need to clean this up." WOW! he amazes me sometimes with the things he says. my goal is to blog them more often. I have to admit, I know I don't have this exactly word-for-word the way it went down. However, my memory does remember him using the word ridiculous correctly 3 times in 3 different sentences and they were something along the lines of our little conversation above. I think tomorrow I will see how many of my 3rd graders can use the word ridiculous correctly in a sentence.

Anna's 1st haircut

Today I took Anna to the very girly Sweet and Sassy to have her first haircut. She was excited, but yet very calm. There was a group of young girls celebrating a birthday. They were playing dress up and dancing on the catwalk in the back. She loved watching them while we waited for her turn to get her haircut. When her turn came, she was such a big girl. Anna never even flinched or seemed scared at any point. I wanted them to just trim her up a bit to help fill in her hair. I was amazed at how quickly more wave and curl came out with just a few snips. When she was done, she sprayed her with the girly scented hairspray and glitter spray! Anna looked like a little lady! Now we have a formal picture from Sweet and Sassy with a small lock of hair. Anna's a big girl now!