I'm scratchy

Last night I was reading through old blog posts and I came across one with conversations my girls have. I had totally forgotten about some of them, and so tonight when Sophie had this conversation with her dad, I realized I had better quickly get on the computer. Oh alirght, I was already on it.

Sophie: "I'm scratchy!" She runs over to William and says "Itch me!"

William scratches her (don't you love how she mixes up scratch and itch!?) and she says "No not there!"

"Where?" says William.

"Here!" She points to a spot on her lower back "Itch me there!"

"No, no...here" Points to another spot. "Now here."

"Aaaahhhhh."

Scratch all gone.

Family Dynamics

This past Friday my friend Shelley and I took the girls to the Festival of Trees. Taylor was performing with her school's Grade 9 band so we watched her and then explored the festival.

Shelley was showing Saoirse a set of small statues of Mary, Joseph and the newborn Jesus. She says to Saoirse "Joseph was Jesus' daddy" and Saoirse says "Actually, he was Jesus' stepdad." This made us laugh quite loudly. As I have said many times before we are not very religious. In fact Saoirse has been to church a grand total of once...at her baptism. I know, it is awful. Since she has started Kindergarten she has really embraced the whole religion aspect of school. She loves the prayers, the songs, the stories. Almost every day she brings up God (as an example today she and Sophie were arguing and I asked if they realized who was watching them. It's December and I play the Santa card an awful lot. She replies "God?") Anyway, I am assuming that in school they were told something along the lines of God being the father of Jesus but that he was raised by Joseph. Since we have the same sort of thing in our own family (without the whole immaculate conception deal) I'm guessing she just took it to mean that Jesus has a stepdad, just like Liam and Taylor do.

(Jesus, Mary and the stepdad)


We had a great time at the Festival of Trees and I will be sure to pull the girls out of school on the last Friday of every November so that we can enjoy ourselves without the mad rush of people on the weekend!

A Stampin' Up tree. Seriously! I was in envy.

The Festival of Trees is a fundraiser for our local childrens hospital, the Stollery. They had an area where you could mask up, operate on a teddy bear, see a doll in an incubator, get a cast on your finger and so on and so on. The girls loved it.

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A gingerbread castle. I believe this one won the award in the non professional category.

There are more pictures on facebook of course. Or there will be once I post them.