The Van Sickle Chronicles: Some Fun for Christmas!

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Some Fun for Christmas!

The girls both really wanted American Girls for Christmas and kept talking constantly about these. Mom and Mimi got a bit creative and made it happen with the help of Costco and E-Bay. Phew! Alea really wanted Kirsten and Kalei got Elizabeth.They have not stopped playing with them since.

Thank you to Kelli Bee and George who sent some really fun dogs who lick (with real wetness!), kick, bark and wag. We've all got a kick out of these. The funniest thing on Christmas was not watching the girls with these little creatures but watching Judy and Heidi trying to get them to bark and do all their little tricks. We were howling!

Thank you so much, Grammy and Papa! We just love our zip line. We can't wait until we don't have about 3 feet of snow on the ground so we can put it up. Do you think that could possibly happen in January?!

Our new trampoline from Santa! We can't wait to get our yard up and running again for fun!

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Laughter Lines

Just recently the girls learned about the fruits of the spirit at Wednesday night church. They were both so excited about this. So we were talking about this after dinner one night at the dinner table and Alea was looking up at her big paper where she had stuck the different fruits (real fruits like bananas, etc.) with the fruits of the spirit listed on them, like joy, patience, etc. Kalei says to Alea, "What are the fruits of the spirit Alea? Do you know?" And with a totally serious face Alea looks at her and says, "Well, they are apple, banana, pear, watermelon..." And we all broke out in laughter. Who knew that that's what the fruit of the spirit really are.
I just painted Alea's toenails for a little girl's tea party we went to and she was so excited about having a nail salon with mommy. Now every morning when she wakes up she yells, "Mommy look!!!! They're still painted!" She can't quite get over the fact that the paint would still be on her nails each morning. She told me she was thinking that we'd have to repaint them every day. What goes through little people's minds is so joyful to me!
Kalei's latest little phrase that I think she's learned from being with peers in kindergarten is "No Mommy, I'm really not joking!" She says this after about most anything. It's usually after I've smiled or giggled because she's just said something real cute. I wonder if she thinks that I don't believe what she's saying. So today after she said this yet one more time I said, "Kalei, what's with this 'I'm not joking business?' " Kalei responds with, "It's not a business Mom, it's a silliness!" We went on to talk about what my business is or job is and what her job is of going to school.
I was admiring the beautiful eyes of my girls and reminding Kalei that she had chocolate drop eyes (a term Matt's mom has always used!). We decided we needed a name for Alea's green eyes. I wanted to compare them to the green oceans we saw on our cruise in the Caribean. The girls couldn't understand a green ocean so they had other ideas. Kalei decided that beans were green and Alea loves green beans so she thought we should call Alea's eyes, "green bean eyes!" Alea finally came up with "eyes as green as a Christmas tree."
"Look, I learned how to scribble!" -Kalei, after learning how to dribble a basketball up in Alaska
"And I love you Jesus, even more than I love Mimi (her grandma)!" -Kalei, praying her nightly prayers
"I'm just all full of the sillies!" -Alea, comment while driving along in the car
"Look Mommy, it's the PMS guy!" -Alea, after spotting the UPS van