Benji was playing hide and go seek with his Dad and Brother. They found him in the dryer and he had peed his pants!!! yes peed! I couldn’t stop laughing. He was hiding so he couldn’t get out cause he didn’t want to get found so he just had to go in the dryer!! He was worried that he was in big trouble but since he didn’t know that it was ok to get out and go then he was off the hook. Now he knows. Better not happen again.

During the Sacrament hymn: “Dad, this song is kind of scary.” It’s just slow. “No Dad, this one’s a little bit scary.” And he then refused to go up and sing with the primary for our Christmas Program. But he volunteered for another prayer in junior primary and he’s already given 2 talks in his first year of sunbeams.

I stopped by the mall last week and Santa was there taking pictures with all of the kids. As we walked by Benji says, “that’s a pretend Santa mom – not the real one.” I don’t know where he got that idea. I told him it just didn’t look like Santa because he wasn’t wearing his big red coat. I’m not sure if he bought it or just let it go. I think one of the problems is that 50% of Christmas Specials are about not believing in Santa – I think they have put these ideas in our young children’s heads – boo.

He also took the time to try and understand the game of football today!! that made both of his parents proud!! He could read the score and figure out which one was the Packers. It was neat to see his mind grasping all of this new knowledge.

Cali crawls in circles when she is happy. She also gets shy and squeezes her eyes shut in a real cute way. She stood up for 30 seconds yesterday! She can only do that when she doesn’t realize that she is doing it. We opened a present today and Cali got hers open quick – I think the birthday this month got her ready for Christmas morning. She is also very protective of her mom. She refuses to share my lap with either of her brothers and throws a giant fit until she gets her way.

Cali’s not so goods would be her bad habit of throwing her food on the ground when she is full and purposely feeding it to the dog! and the poop dripping out the back of her diaper this afternoon was not fun. I’m just glad it wasn’t at church. And on that same note I am averaging 4 stinky diapers a day from her! (add 4 from her older brother and you can see what I do all day.)

Packer disappeared after church – he spent an hour in with the nativity set and lined up all of the people and animals and was holding his little nursery handout and comparing the Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. He wanted all of us to see that they matched.

He is getting so big – really outgrowing the baby stage all together. After Benji peed in the dryer he let me know that it is not good to do that. His biggest problem right now is fighting with his little sister. He gets mad when she grabs his toys or sits on the car mat. She is very grabby and Packer just can’t handle her in the middle of his games. So we are working on teaching both children to get along and play nicely together.