Funny babies

The kids have been so funny and delightful lately. I feel like I really could just sit and watch them and hang out with them and they'd do enough stuff to keep me laughing the whole time. Eloise still likes telling secrets. But more than that lately she has just been telling stories. She's so animated and serious. Stories or commands. Today's was something like this: "Mommy, look at me. No look away. [her hands on my cheeks] no laugh. Big shark coming to bite us!" I asked her what we should do. "Bite him!" she said.

Conley is so sweet to her. I say that all the time. But he really is. If she is at a disadvantage somehow, he helps her out of it (unless it's something that he really wants or it's his and he wants to play with it). If she is mad about a certain plate, he'll switch her no problem. Or if she needs help with something, he helps her. He's learning to be patient and let her try. He's encouraging and respectful. They have the perfect personalities to be playmates. They get along well and have fun togehter and that just makes my heart so warm and happy.

I still adore snuggling with Eloise. Today she fell asleep in the car, and Conley got a little bag of popcorn from Walmart pickup. He said, "Eloise, you need to wake up or I'm gonna eat this whole bag." He like felt bad not sharing. It was so cute. I told him he could go ahead and eat the whole bag.

They've been a lot better for scripture time, too. And yesterday Conley volunteered to say our morning prayer. And he did! It was so great. And just made my heart so warm. And Joseph too.

Conley also says funny thing, or things he thinks are funny. Today he kept telling me secrets and then laughing really hard, along the lines of this: "Mom, boxes are illegal." Or Dogs are legal, or something like that. It really got his funny bone for some reason. He's got an "office" under the Christmas tree. He put papers down there and hole punches them (for snow, maybe?).

When I ask him how is day was, he usually says "bad." I'm not sure why. And he doesn't disclose too much. "Peter didn't want to do what I wanted to do" or something like that is usually what it is.

Conley helps Eloise say her prayers pretty often and it's so sweet.