Sophie wrote a book

"How Do I Feel?" by Sophie

We love this crazy kid

Overheard

SOPHIE: It's sad that Santa and the elves don't get presents for Christmas.
ME: How do you know they don't get presents?
SOPHIE: Cause they don't.
ME: Well Santa gets to eat all the cookies people leave for him.
SOPHIE: Yeah but that's not presents. I'm talking about toys. And knives and stuff.
ETHAN: Knives? Why would Santa want a knife?
SOPHIE: To cut stuff.
ETHAN: Santa wouldn't want to cut stuff Sophie. He's not a violent man.

Ethan is getting a serious volume of hair removed. It requires two trained technicians.

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Overheard

SOPHIE: I want to wear high-heeled shoes.
GINGER: Not until you're older.
SOPHIE: But my friend Brianna was allowed to wear high-heeled shoes when she was four.
GINGER: Hmmm...Well, I don't know about that but in our family we don't wear high-heeled shoes until we're 12.
SOPHIE: So does Andrew get to wear high heels?

We're loving the Arizona winter today.

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"A football? What's a football?"

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They gave up their Christmas

Happy Birthday Emma

She turned 8 this week.

Sunday night crepes with Nutella

Henry can't get enough. He is calling them "num nums."

It was suspiciously quiet.

Then we heard water running. This is what we found when we went upstairs.

Henry's added a new trick to his repertoire

In the toilet

Overheard

ANDREW: I have many goals in life, but one of them is to grow a handlebar mustache before I go to college... And if I can't be an entomologist I want to be the guy who swallows swords in the shark tank at Shedd Aquarium.

Overheard

Tonight in the car...

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ANDREW: Gaylord Street?!? Why Gaylord Street?

ME: Gay used to mean "happy."

GINGER: Gaylord is a name.

...

ETHAN: Wait. Did you say gay used to mean happy?

ME: Yep.

ETHAN: So that's why on the Flintstones song they say they'll have a "gay old time"?

ME: Yep.

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ETHAN: I thought it was different.