Andrea hasn't signed on yet, so I am going to take the liberty of posting something on her behalf....

Olivia holding Sara (December)

We made cookies for the Christmas party. Grandma's brown paper bag technique never fails!

This is from an email Andrea sent me earlier today:

Last night at dinner Olivia stopped eating, put her elbow on the table and rested her chin in her hand and asked Reed "So daddy, what do you want to be when you grow up?" (Olivia frequently engages us in 'grown up' discussions and we treat them seriously). Reed responded "That's a very good question. I think I want to be a teacher and I want to be a psychologist so that I can help people." Olivia politely asked a few more questions about how psychologists help people and then Reed started talking about the kinds of occupation plans he had when he was little. He must have talked a little too long because Olivia finally cut him off and asked "Daddy, do you want to be a pirate, or a monster, or a doctor?" Respectfully, Reed paused for a moment and considered his response. He said "Well, I don't think I want to be a pirate and monsters aren't very nice and can be scary so I don't want to be a monster. . . " and before he could finish Olivia jumped in with "But you could be a nice ghost! Then you wouldn't be scary." (Keep in mind that the whole conversation is happening with a very serious tone of voice - this is a conversation about real life plans.) Again a pause while Reed thought about his response (and squinted his eyes while trying to hide some smiles). "Yes, that's a good point. I could be a nice ghost." Then they talked about what Olivia wants to be. . . her first response was that she plans to be a witch, but when we asked her why, she described an environment and experiences that sound more like a queen - so we asked if she wanted to be a witch or a queen - she said she wanted to be a queen or maybe a princess, daddy could be the king, and mommy could be a witch.

so there.