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Well, we met this morning with the developmental preschool. Noah will be starting in January. I am not so sure I am ready for this but I have to do what is best for my kiddos. I know that.

Noah has decided he likes to be helpful. He spilled his juice at the table in the morning while I had walked upstairs to get something and when I came back down he had gotten tissues (the only thing he could reach) and was wiping the table. And he had so much fun running back and forth from the tissue box to the table and then to the trash. It was pretty stinking cute.

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The day just flew by. After the boys got up this morning Mike actually went to get us some breakfast so I decided to try and distract them while they waited. I had recorded "Polar Express" last night thinking they may enjoy the movie. Oh my! They were glued to the TV the entire movie. I didn't think 3 year olds could sit for that long! We ended up watching it a total of 3 times today, although each of the boys only watched it twice. I guess I should say I ended up watching it twice.

Noah took a nap and just now fell asleep. Poor little guy. I am afraid he got his mommie's night owl personality. But I will admit I enjoyed the hour and a half of snuggling with him while he was sleeping. Yep, I held him the entire time and loved every minute of it.

Both of the boys talked about almost nothing else but "Choo Choo Press" or "Polar Press" as Cameron says. So very cute.

Our neighborhood lighted luminaries all over tonight and so we ventured out and rode around looking at Christmas lights and enjoying it all. The boys seemed to love looking at the lights and Noah didn't want to stop. I think Cameron was ready to go home only because he had been sitting the majority of the day and was ancy. So full of energy all the time. Have no idea where he gets that one from.

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I did our Christmas card today. It took almost half the day to do the entire thing and send it off to be printed. Ugh! I feel like the day started and ended so quickly. And I missed playing with the boys and Mike. I could hear them so at least I got to enjoy it that way.

Cameron has started to really make up a lot of words. It is so stinking cute! He gives his cars names and we have a great time making them "talk" to each other. A few of the names today were Cavive, Shicka, Shicky, and Chuka. When he started doing this the other day I thought he was just making up a word and wouldn't remember it. So I asked him after a minute or so to tell me the names again (I really had forgotten) and he named them all right off. So that became our little game. He will sometimes change it up just to throw me off I think. But man it has been amazing to see his imagination unfold right before my eyes.

Noah is talking so, so much more and speaking a lot more clearly these days. It just seems to continue to improve each week. I am so thankful. I do think he may be getting sick again though. Tonight at bed time he was very clingy and cried a little. He has really only done that lately when he ended up sick in the next day or two. Hoping it was just an "off" evening and not that! He was being so funny right before bed and carrying this little light up pumpkin thing that goes around your neck around. He kept looking at it like it was a pocket watch and then he started saying "Time tunnel approaching." He then made a "dinosaur train" and got up and was the conductor. They never cease to make me smile from ear to ear.

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The boys are wanting to have jammie days every day now. Hmm, would be easy for me but I don't' think I can let my nearly 3 year olds run around all the time in their jammies. Although some days I wish I could have those footy things again and be all cozy.

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Wow, the year is really drawing to an end quickly. Just so unbelievable for me. Still can't seem to wrap my head around the fact they will be three in just a few short weeks. Two to be exact. Wow.

Tried again today to get some photos for the Christmas card. I am giving up and am just going to figure something else out. Noah refuses to "smile" or look at me when I have the camera. The days are ticking by and I need to get them done and in the mail!

The boys cracked me up tonight. I got them a new book today at their book fair at school. It was called The Very Cranky Bear. I figured it would help me teach them a little about being cranky. Right after I read it to them we watched Rudolph (the movie) and of course when the Abominable Snowman came up Cameron called him the "Cranky Bear." Mike and I laughed. So the rest of the movie they called him that and Noah even went so far as to give us a dialog about it. Oh, try explaining to two 3 year olds about the snowman and the prospector falling over the cliff. That took some creative thinking on our part. Ha! I am learning to be quicker on my feet now than I used to be. But it was a good learning experience I guess for all involved.

When we dropped them off at PDO this morning we got this adorable picture in these super cute frames they made. Oh my goodness did I gush over this thing today. And obviously so since I made it my picture for today. The things that melt our hearts as parents.

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We had a jammie day today. The boys had a ball. We had a pretty good day. Maybe all I needed was to get them some extra sleep for the fighting to get better. Hey, whatever works I will do!

Cameron sang "Jingle Bells" totally on his own and unprompted this afternoon. I just stopped and sat and listened to him. Of course when I went to get the camera to viseo it he stopped. Sigh. Oh well, I will always have the memory I guess.

Got some more Christmas shopping done today. Yippee! Only really have a few things left to get and some little gifts for teachers, etc. December came and is going very, very quickly!

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It's been a dreary day weather wise here. I have had a headache for 2 days and I am ready for the weather to get sunny for a while. Always get these when it is overcast. Yuck.

The boys were completely exhausted from their day at "school" and then Kindermusik. They were out within minutes of getting in bed. And Noah hasn't done that in weeks! So I was thankful tonight he went to sleep so quickly. When he is over tired he is so cranky. I think they have both been exhausted these last few weeks (no napping anymore) and it has finally caught up with them. They have been at each other constantly for the last few weeks. After them taking a nap yesterday they seemed in so much of a better mood both yesterday afternoon and today. Now I know I just need to put them in the car and drive for an hour once in a while. Ha!