{hands full of happiness}: It's about time for Christmas!

The Darndest Things

C (Explaining to Eli and Si school fire drills): You have to go outside, and you can't talk, because, if you open your mouth, you will get fire in it.

Silas (at the Costco fountain pop machines): I want BEER!!!

Me (while dousing the hot dogs in ketchup): What? Did you say you wanted beer?

Silas: Yes.

Me: It's called ROOT beer, Silas. We don't drink beer. (Loud enough for all to be assured that my 4 year old doesn't drink beer.)

Silas: I call it BEER!

Silas: Mum, you got borned some really awesome kids!

Jared: Silas, come here.
Silas: Me no Silas, me Si-la-guy!

Silas (pointing to bone on the side of his ankle): Mommy, rock. in. my. foot.
Me: It's not a rock, it's a bone.
Silas (incredible distressed): Oh no! Mommy, BONE in my foot!

Silas (when the sun went behind a cloud and the room got darker): Mommy, dark?
Me: Ya, the sun just went behind a cloud.
Silas, very sad: Mommy, me miss da sun.

Silas (At 1:30 in the morning after he has been sleeping terrible due to a stuffed nose): Uh oh
Me: What, is your nose broken?
Silas: Yup, two them broken.

Me (at dinner time): Eli, have you been wearing your t-shirt on backwards all day.
Eli (without skipping a beat): No, but I've been wearing my underpants on backwards all day.

Eli (the first time he sat in his brand new, ridiculously expensive but totally safe car seat): It's like way comfortabler. It's like a pile of clouds I'm sitting on.

Eli: I know why the world turns. It's because the sun is so hot, and the world is a guy, and it doesn't like being so hot, so it turns around all the time to cool off.

Eli: You know that stuff in your eye? It's Jell-o, and it can see stuff. I know, because I touched it.

Eli: There's a skeleton inside my body that talks to me and tells me all the things that are good.

Me: Eli, pull up your underpants, it's not polite to walk around with a bare bum.
Eli: I don't have a bare bum, mum.
Me: What exactly would you call it?
Eli: A person bum.

Eli: Mum, will you button my pants and pull up my...um... bug?

Eli: Silas is such a little "Duke-ter." Me: What's a Duke-ter, Eli. Eli: Someone who eats all the 'Mo' so I can't have any.

Eli: Why is there toilet paper all over the yard. Me: 'Cause dumb teenagers didn't bother to find out if Auntie Phoebe was home or not, and now we have to clean it up. Eli: Grandma's going to be really mad. Let's eat them alive: crush their bones and drink their blood. (I promise, I don't know where he got that one.)

Eli (when I was wearing a dress that kind of makes me look preggers): Mommy, your 'mo' looks ugly when you have sisters in your tummy.

15 November 2010

It's about time for Christmas!

I don't want to complain, but it is a little hard to get into the Christmas Spirit with all the nice weather we are experiencing. It has been such a nice fall in Calgary: unbelievably, really. Eli spent an hour in the backyard today in just a t-shirt and jeans, in the middle of NOVEMBER! Crazy.

But, I'm not one to let a little sunshine get in my way, so let me spread a little Christmas your way by offering a Nativity set for this weeks giveaway. Here it is:

Now, don't be too impressed. I did not design or cut these pieces out. But, I did paint and sand them! I have a set of my own and love it!

Same rules apply as all the other giveaways.

Mandatory Entry:
1. Be a follower of my blog and comment on THIS post!

Extra Entries:
2. Comment on any other post this week.

I will draw, using Random.org, which I have finally figured out, next Sunday night, November 21, 2010. Hopefully lots of people from Calgary will enter this one, because this will cost an armload to mail. Oh what I go through for my faithful followers!

Comment away, my dear friends! And, MERRY CHRISTMAS!

11 comments:

The PrattsNovember 15, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Very cute nativity, and kid friendly which I love! Wow, Eli wore a short-sleeved shirt today? We had a major snowstorm today, and I'm pretty sure I won't see my grass again till May. But it definitely feels Christmas-y!
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CherylNovember 15, 2010 at 10:46 PM
I already own one of these and I love it. I too painted it and sanded it myself... thanks for getting it for me... anyway I still want to enter- I would just love to win something- you know? And that nativity is beautiful.
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AnonymousNovember 15, 2010 at 10:51 PM
We don't even have a nativity!! Lol! I know its sad! I would love this one, its so cute!! Although I wouldn't want to make you fit the shipping charges! Yikes!
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LauraNovember 15, 2010 at 11:05 PM
I love this! It's so simple and beautiful.
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jennNovember 16, 2010 at 11:34 AM
Oh Nativity...I love you more than all the other giveaways combined!

I want it I want it I want it.

Oh...and even though I love the commenter, I do believe those who are already in ownership of said coveted nativity should not be eligible to enter. Can you whip her up a felt ball to keep her happy for the duration of this givaway???
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AmyNovember 16, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Merry Christmas to you too Jenny!
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Erin WallaceNovember 16, 2010 at 3:27 PM
I love what Cheryl wrote!! I too would love to enter this draw (this is my first blog draw...I don't usually get into these kinds of things). Either way, I really love this nativity set. If I win, it would be an excuse to get together ;)
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shannonNovember 16, 2010 at 4:26 PM
im entering this contest, but i will donate it to charity if i win, (cuz i all ready have one!)
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akathemomNovember 16, 2010 at 10:17 PM
I'll enter too, and donate too! In fact if I win, I will then do a giveaway between the people who didn't win! Hahahahahaha...
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Kim HughesNovember 17, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Hey Jenny, I know I live "abroad" but I think you should still consider us Hughes. I have the perfect spot for this already. Miss you guys and love the blog.
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Lisa JohnsonNovember 21, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I want to win please!!
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