Fine.

Mom has said she won't listen to me until I blog, so here it is.

Jaydenisms:

"Mom! I'm so sick of Karah messin' with my movie!!"

"What does a fire dog say? OUCH OUCH I'm BURNING!!"

"What does a mad cow say? (deep voice) MOOOOO!"

"What does a happy cow say? (giggle-like) MooOOOoooOOO!!!!"

"What does a crab say? PINCH PINCH" (while he pinches you)

"Karah Jo-MANN!!!" (when he thinks she should be in trouble)

"Your feet stink, Dad."

"Superman can beat up Batman, hands down!" (made me so proud)

"There's a naked boy in the house!!" (as he's running around naked after a bath)

"Don't go, Daddy! Don't leave me here with HER!!!" (Dan was going to the store and Jay and I were butting heads that morning...)



Karah is all over the place. She is understanding so much lately, it is awesome. She is Jayden's shadow. Sometimes he likes it, sometimes he doesn't. It is because sometimes she'll do everything he tells her to, and then sometimes she gets fed up with him and wants to be the boss instead. That doesn't set well with Jayden, and he comes to me complaining how he's "so sick of Karah thinking she's all that."

We've all been sick this week, starting last Friday. Fun stuff!! Jayden has taught himself how to use the DVD player in the office and pretty much crashed in there watching Kung Fu Panda and Baby's Day Out while I tried to manage Karah. Neither kid slept a wink the first three nights of the illness, so neither did I, and I welcomed the fact that he kept himself quietly occupied. Now we're all feeling better I've locked the office door andI have been meeting resistance. We had a 30 minute melt-down today after he only got to watch one movie one time, and then he proceeded to find other things to be offended by for about an hour or so.

Both kids are excited for Christmas, and Jay's been very good about not opening the presents. He will sit there next to his presents and just rub the box and tell me how he's going to open it on Christmas morning, and he makes guesses about what it will be. ("I fink dis one will be a cow.")

The Richardson Family in a nutshell this week.