Emails from Santa

We've been on a muffin kick lately. This weekend we couldn't agree on whether to make some mixed berry muffins, or banana muffins, so I invented bananaberry muffins. (Actually I'm sure it's been done before, but I'm gonna pretend we invented it). They were awesome. I made banana ones this morning. The kids loved the crumb topping, and Cason wanted to just eat the muffin tops, and then get another. Ha.
We've also been having some dance parties, and Neely has added some incredible moves to her repertoire. Her moves up until a few days ago involved pretty much just her lower half. But suddenly her arms are involved, and it's amazing. I'm gonna do my best to get some video of that tomorrow.
She also makes little monkey sounds at us when she wants something. Usually it's when she brings us a book she wants us to read. She'll hold it out toward us and grunt "Uh-uh-uh-uh" and it sounds like a perfect monkey impression.

Paige still has a pretty bad cough, and Neely's got a runny nose. :( I thought Paige was feeling okay though, until she had quite the attitude all day, which makes me think maybe she IS a little grumpy.

Speaking of which, she was being a grump during dinner, and ran off to her room, crying. Pretty soon we were eating dinner while listening to her cry loudly from her room: "If you want me to say sorry, come carry me out there!" Ha. We ignored her and kept eating. Neely was in her highchair, chowing down. At one point, she said, without looking up from her food, "NO Paige." She sounded like a little parrot. Her pronunciation of Paige is so cute. Sounds like "Paidsh".

This morning I opened their emails from Santa, which they loved. They each had one sent to them, and Santa talked TO them, using their name, which made them light up. It was SO cute.
Paige got shy, like he was right there, talking to her face to face.