Christmas break fun

Ahhh... Christmas break. We SO needed this.

Unending days (or at least a week or two) of no schedules, nowhere to be, nothing we HAVE to do. Just us. Hanging out. Enjoying each other. No rushing around. No gifts to buy. No doctors appointments. Or therapies. Just home.

The last few days I've been able to really truly enjoy my kids. To look into their sweet innocent eyes and see the ways they are growing. To give them the attention they crave and deserve. To just be together.

And I've been able to re-appreciate how hilarious they are...

A few quotes from our week:


Charlie: "Daaadddd..... when are we going to beeeeee there??"
Dad: "We're going to turn up here."
Charlie: "Ooh! Turnips!! I love turnips!"

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Nolan: "Mom.. What will the nursing home smell like?"
Me: "Uhhhh... (pondering this odd, yet legit question) What do you think?"
Nolan: "I don't know... Dirty rats?"

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Dad: "Charlie, will you pray first?"
Charlie: "Yup. Down, Set, HUUUTTT!"

and then at bedtime..

Charlie: "Watch over Tacky, Abe, down Set HUUUTTTT!"

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Nolan: "I wish I could go back to school."
Me: "What?? Why?"
Nolan: "So I could skip rest time for 5 whole days.."

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Charlie: " Look! Santa left us the empty wrapping paper rolls!"
Nolan: "Yeah! Cause he knows we like to play swords with them!"

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while painting window suncatchers..
Me: "Wow Charlie! You painted your Santa all black!"
Charlie: "Yup."
Nolan: "Maybe he got stuck in the chimney."

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and my favorite from today..
Charlie: "Dad!! Listen to this! This is sweet.. Guess what?"
Dad: "What?"
Charlie: "I speaked Spanish today..."
Dad: "Really? What did you say?"
Charlie: "I said 'Cha-cha-cha."