I can has cheezburger?

There is a great Web site, icanhascheezburger.com, where captions are put on photos of animals. We spent many nights the Herald, laughing at the weird things animals do. In the same great style, my good friend Chris Daines has applied it to humans. The Web site is worth a gander as well.

The neighbor kids came over for about an hour the other day, and they love the rocking horse. Naturally, Grace, full of grace, does an especially smooth mount behind her BFF, Ella. But to her credit, she always bounces back quickly. Always looking out for the girls, you can hear Jaggyr in the background warning them to not go too fast. Thanks Jag!

Baby Jesus

Grace is obsessed with "baby Jesus." She loves Nativity scenes, but couldn't care less about the other figures, only the baby.

She has already lost the baby Jesus from one Nativity scene, so today I was trying to convince her to leave the other set alone. So we opted for printing off online coloring pictures of baby Jesus. Of the several manger scenes I found and printed, plus one of Santa Clause for good measure, she wasn't really that interested anymore. Except to carry around the Santa picture. She was very excited to show McCall her picture of Santa.

When my sister was probably 2 or 3, one of those plush dolls with the plastic faces became baby Jesus. We used it while re-creating the Nativity one Christmas and that is what it was called for year and years and years. I'm sure it's long gone to the D.I. by now, but it would be funny to tell Grace that it was baby Jesus.

Grace in action

The kids went to their new babysitter today. We met her last week, and Grace has been talking about going to Bonnie's for nearly a week now — she has "lots of toys downstairs and lots and lots of movies."

She's talking like crazy now — and saying a lot of things that are demonstrating independent thought. She's connecting things now. The other day, Jon was mad and yelling about something, and after he went upstairs, she turned to me and said, "Daddy's being naughty."

She also is starting to get the whole Santa Claus game. She says that Santa will be bringing her a baby doll, and claims that she will sit on Santa's lap and tell him that is what she wants. We'll see if she actually does it.