How romantic-Henry.

With this new Twilight movie coming out, we're being inundated with dreamy pictures of vampires looming over a cute teenage girl and probably contemplating whether he's going to bite her or kiss her. Phew.

Anyhoo, in a effort to counteract the glamorization of vampires (and to discourage any cute girls from every wanting to kiss me in the future), we recreated a few steamy shot of our own. Mama says she has to get all the kisses she can now, before I get embarrassed (why would I ever be embarrassed of those two?). Papa says she's overdoing it, because today when we set up my train track, i told him the road signs read "I love you" and "Give me a kiss". This is on top of the guard rails that already mean "Pay the toll- give mama a kiss."

Here's our first shot. I'm a little off on my aim.

But it certainly did the trick for mama. (It looks like a shower might also do the trick.)
Now here's a little magic for papa.

After that last picture, I was worried my parents might make me kiss my sister next, so I took off down the stairs to get away. Unfortunately, I missed the last three steps and fell on my head.Love hurts.Luckily, Bob the Builder (with help from my Boo Bear) was there soothed my pain. Oh, and cookies helped too. Thanks Aunt Jenni for the awesome pumpkin chocolate chip recipe.

Sweet Baby Juner.

We stayed up late last night with Miss Susan and June woke up extra early this morning, so she couldn't help but fall asleep this morning. And mama couldn't help but set her up to take some pictures. We could go on and on about how much we like baby Juner and how sweet she is, but we'll let the pictures do the talking.

Another attempt at a Christmas card picture-June.

Mama keep trying to get a good shot of us in front of the Christmas tree.

Henry had to hold my hand so I wouldn't eat any ornaments. My glitter intake is at maximum levels these days. So much that our special kids tree got moved to a table and Henry has to stand on a chair to decorate it now.

Do you know why Henry is sitting so still? He got to pick out a piece of candy from the Halloween bowl for cooperating. We're still going strong with circus peanut bribery.

Yesterday afternoon, we had a parent free afternoon! Miss Susan came over and stayed with us while Mama, Papa, and Mister Paul went to go watch the Wake Forest-Boston College football game. While they were sitting outside in the cold, we got Miss Susan all to ourselves and had a great time! Mama and Papa said they had fun too. It was faculty appreciation day and they got to sit in a special section in the end zone and eat a big buffet of barbeque, fried chicken and that vinegary cole slaw she loves. Thanks for watching us Miss Susan! Same time next week?

Our second Christmas miracle-Henry.

Friday morning we woke up to a Christmas miracle! There was snow on the ground! It wasn't so much snow as frozen sleet, but we'll take it anyway.

Mama had been feeling sad that everyone had snow except us, so mother nature sent this little treat our way. Papa spent the morning grumbling about how he moved to the south so he would never have to see snow again. The locals all freaked out because they didn't know how to function with a heavy dusting of frost on the grass. If you can believe it, this weather emergency actually got the high schoolers across the street a two hour delay. For a school that doesn't even start until 9am on a normal day. We went out at 7:30 and the roads were dry.

I was so excited to see snow again that I ran outside in my boots and short-sleeved t-shirt. All the neighbors thought I was crazy.

I crunched on the snow for a while then ate all the ice off the bottom of the recycling bin. Then mama made me come back inside.