They allow us to have children

Zuzu Carols 2011

Jingle Bells

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all da way

How much funnn is to ride innn slurpin sleigh,

Yay!

Repeat over and over and over and over again.

Zuzu Quote

I really should consolidate all the little quotes I have written down over the last couple of years - but let me start with one from the night before last:

 

I was putting Zuzu to bed and I set her little nighttime lovey guys up next to the bed rail.

Zuzu:  "I like to lay my guys down."

Mommy:  "Oh, like they're night-night?"

Zuzu:  "No, like they're dead!"

 

Should I be worried?

This picture has nothing to do with the post, but isn't it adorable?  I took this at my parents house this summer.

Happy Halloween, a day late

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

Ours was good, with the exception of the costume crisis we had about a minute before leaving the house for Trick-or-Treating.  The kids were running around the house like crazy people and Alison ripped half of her butterfly wing off on a doorknob - it set us back a few minutes.  Gail and Chris were trying to fix it with a hot glue gun and some duct tape.  I eventually found a spare set of wings (Ali pointed out that they did not match her costume) but it was good enough to get us all out the door. 

We added a few more houses this year and for the most part the kids were pretty good with manners, remembering to say "trick-or-treat" and "thank you".  Not surprisingly, Zuzu was overheard saying "Can I have more?" at one of the houses.  She said it was because she wanted a different kind, and I assured her that no matter what you just say "thank you" and move on.  "But I wanted a green one and I didn't get a green one."  It's so hard to talk to this child sometimes.  Also noteworthy was when she was given a bag of chips at one house and said "in Spanish I call these Baritos".  So silly