Sunday December 8

The kids have been gathering themselves around the heater all morning as soon as it turns on.

I think it is pretty cute to see them cuddled under blankets together.

Love it.

The day went a lot better today.

Church was good.

Afterwards Dad, I and Porter took a nap.

Dad had a rough night with wrecks on the freeway....I woke up at 4 and couldn't go back to sleep.

Stressing about how close Christmas seems to be getting.

The Christmas I wasn't going to stress about........

Anyway, a little nap was nice.

And Porter spent the rest of the afternoon with his Lego's.

Like he does every day.

Lego's literally take up his whole area.

He doesn't like to do it in the playroom, or his room much, cause I guess he likes to be around us as he builds.

Today he asked me about Holidays, and special events, then he would build it.

We talked about school starting, so he built a bus.

Talked about Christmas, and Easter.

He said that going to church is a good one and built a temple :)

he also built a baptismal font and two little people, who he made super they were dressed in white.

Super cute.

It is fun to watch him and see what he creates....even if it makes a mess.

*****

And another fun thing that started today.

Madi has a cute little elf that Grandma Ene gave her many years ago....

Madi uses it as a 'service' elf.

It works like this.

If you have the elf, you do a secret act of service for someone and leave the elf there.

By the way, the elf is named Elvis.

Then if you see that Elvis did something for you, you go and do something secret again, and leave him there.

He has made his rounds today.....Madi taking pictures of everything he does to document it.

It is pretty cute.

We don't do the elf on the shelf.....but this guy is fun.

I might want to keep him around after Christmas.