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Oh so much to say! We've been quite busy lately and it's not going to get any easier from here!

Aidan is my big helper! He was helping me unload the dishwasher tonight. He was telling me where to put each cup and plate and he got it all right! We went to a family dollar yesterday in Wilmington that we had never been before. His La-La is the manager of the one in Burgaw and during Halloween she scared him in her store with a scary mask. Well when I pull up to the Wilmington store he says "Mommy, I'm scared." I said why Aidan? He points to the store and says "The Halloween monster is in there". Now how the hell did he know we were at a Family Dollar? Kids amaze me!

Asher woke up one morning and has not stopped talking since. When he sees a Santa he says "ho ho!" with his little lips curled up! He grabs a toy or a can of food and says "Open dis". But EVERYTHING is "What's dis?" or "What's dat?" EVERYTHING Aidan says Ashie repeats it in one way or another. This also goes for whatever Aidan does! We were in the car today and Aidan was pulling up his pant leg saying "see this (scratch) mommy?", I look over at Ashie and he is also pulling up his pant leg saying "see dis?" and pointing to his leg! I just LOVE this age!! He will go crawl up on the couch and cuddle with a pillow. When we were at Grandma's Aidan was sleeping in the playpen and I put Ashie in there to wake him up and Ashie says "wake cup wake cup" and went and snuggled next to him and Aidan put his arm around Ashie. Of course I didn't have a camera!

We went to the Christmas Parade tonight and I just LOVED watching their faces! I wish I could post videos on here because their expressions were priceless! Not a whine or a cry during the whole thing! Asher waved to everyone and danced and sang to the music. Aidan waved at the all people dressed up as characters and also loved dancing to the music! And I thought he might havea panic attack when Santa rode by! He jumped up and "hey Santa, hey there Santa" in the most deep grownup voice I have ever heard!

We FINALLY took the damn Christmas pictures at Olan Mills on Saturday. Our appt was at 10:45am and we didn't get done until 12:40pm. No one said "Oh we are running behind so and so mintues go walk your restless kids around the mall", it was just "we will get to you asap". At 12:41 I was ready and willing to give these kids to anyone who would take them (just kidding). But it was crazy and it was over and I get them back Dec 18th so Christmas cards are coming everyone!

Well the mail key has been lost for 7 days now so I must go through the piles and piles of mail that has backed up. It was in the stroller the whole time. The whole time I turned the house upside down and found a lot of missing items along the way. So I must go dive in some bills. Good night and God Bless!