Bedtime Stories

Bedtime is so sweet in our house.

After donning their princess pjs or oversized t-shirts, the girls climb into our big bed and snuggle down, ready for their nighttime playlist. They each get to pick two songs and Mommy and Daddy proceed to channel everyone from Darlene to Dorothy.

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For some reason Lainey always holds us accountable when we are singing Dorothy...holding Daddy accountable is really the story here and I so wish I had a video to put right here!! Kev will start off in his regular voice, sounding quite manly. As manly as a man can sound while singing, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Lainey will stop him after the first line shouting, "Daddy sing it like Dorothy!" On command, Daddy will switch to his hilariously charming falsetto and sing the rest of the song like a prepubescent choir boy.

Sometimes I will be in the kitchen getting their milk and I will hear him start the song...I pause... wait for it...ahhhh, there it is. Kevin going into the stratosphere.

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I smile. I do love our nights as a family.

Other top songs on the girls' nighttime playlist includes:

*1) Somewhere Out There

*2) "The deer song" (As The Deer)

*3) I Love You Lord

*4) Tear Down the Walls

*5) We Exalt Thee (which always prompts Lainey to ask, "What does 'exalted' mean?" She's asked so many times, it's a game now, and she will answer herself, "LIFTED UP!" as she raises her arms up over her cute little curly head.)

We end our concert with "The Lord's Prayer" and a prayer over each of the girls...and for Natalie's husband, of course. She's been asking us to pray for her husband for over 6 mos. She always ends with, "Let me dream about him and him about me." Not kidding. The girl's relationship with her Creator brings me tears on a regular basis.

So tonight we mixed it up and Mommy and Daddy performed the bedtime songs with "mics" on our "stage", then the girls asked to take the stage. Here's a video of the sweetness...

Goodnight Sweetheart!

(Another song sometimes on the rotation.)

Feeling Good

Look at this face.

Sweet. Oh yes. Mischievous. Not usually.

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But...

Kev walked outside to this this morning

See that nice LITTLE hole in the bush?
I'd say she took a little off the top.

And the monkey grass has been murdered...

Not much left. And a little uneven, Nat.


And this sweet angel...

Don't let her fool you.
She's feeling better today.

We get done sizing up the damage outside,
running around like banshees inside trying to get ready for a security inspection
with the local police...

At least our littlest one is contained and out of trouble...

Wait, what is that dripping out of your mouth and all over your shirt?

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Just ask Lainey, acting all non-chalant while sneaking butter...

(I wish she'd make it easy on the photog and stay in her clothes!)

"RHETT LIKES MY MEDICINE, HE SUCKED IT LIKE A STRAW!"
she says of her now empty syringe of antibiotic.

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She's at that "do it myself" stage and
we ARE teaching her to share, but really.

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She is SO our little Curious George.
Heart of gold, FULL of mischief and energy...
when she's well, of course.

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Rhett? He'll be fine.
Maybe it will make this ridiculous top tooth finally come in!

(His blankie makes everything better)

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On a side note, anytime Rhett feels anything silky,

he falls to his side like he's been tazered, thumb in mouth.

(When we're bored, we sometimes throw silky things in front of him while he's crawling. He never fails us:)

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Well, the po-po cancelled the inspection last minute.
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All this and a clean house by 8:30 this morning.
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It's gonna be a fun Friday...MWAH-HA-HA!
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And WELCOME BACK LAINEY!!




(the *** are the only way Blogger will SPACE out my sentences. And you thought it just looked pretty.)