I have so many things I want to make note of but I don't want to...Christmas was really great...but perhaps I will just keep it as a memory in my brain because I don't have a desire to type it out.
I was talking to my sister in the car today while driving home...wait...HER driving us home...after we picked up Bells from school and we were talking. She mentioned how we should have recorded Madison and Hannah's Christmas concert...it was seriously the funniest/cutest/most thoughtful thing ever!!! Madison wrote it all out...Hannah and her switched speaking parts. Madison would play a song on the piano and the girls would then explain the different symbols in the lyrics and how it involved the birth of Christ. Dan and I couldn't stop smiling...my cheeks were hurting....we were so blown away by our girls. It was one of those moments you are just so proud of your kids....it's something so little but you get this glimpse of what a great person they are and how much they know and understand things...it's pretty amazing. Then you think about how grown up they seem and how did that just happen...they were just in your arms...Madison always faced out and Hannah always swaddled and cuddled tightly...and it's just makes you want to have more moments like this as a family since I feel at times life is just speeding right along. That was one of my favourite Christmas moments.
And then there are the other moments you are dying of embarrassment. Like how Hannah brought in an empty Martinelli's glass bottle to school to show and tell. The best part was when she told the class that this was her favourite present Santa gave to her....AND how she saw her teaching laughing when she said this. Yes, please don't mention that American Doll you got, or the American doll horse...or clothes, riding hat, Figit....and so many more toys that were your ACTUAL gift since the bottle came from New Years. I will from now on pay attention to what goes in her backpack.
Bells is now throwing temper tantrums that come along with a "no" and a foot stomp. It's hilarious. Ok...like the first time she did it...now it's just annoying. I ignore it....we had a moment in the Commissary. She threw a fit...she was stomping...rolling on the ground and I did absolutely nothing. I'm hoping it's just a short phase...oh the Bells.
Abs is cruising along the furniture. She is huge...she's not just solid...but she's tall. She is in 18 month clothes since the length is too short with 12 month. I can't believe she is turning 1 at the end of this month. She is such a sweet girl....most of the time. She sure knows how to be heard and get mad. She does this fist clench and shake thing...so funny!
I feel as though I'm experiencing living with a teenager with Madison. Besides that...she has this laugh...like she doesn't laugh with her eyes...it's just her mouth opened and a noise coming out of her mouth. It's so fake but not if that makes any sense at all. I have to record it sometime...it's quite the laugh.
