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Good Morning... it is Saturday. The sun is shining but it is cold. It is 9 degrees now but the temps are predicted to fall to well below zero. So cold that even the Governor of MN declared no school on Monday. This doesn't effect the girls but it does mean an extra day of Christmas vacation for Nevaeh.

Our weekend has been low key. Finally, is all I can say, after the hustle of Christmas I was ready to hunker down in a hole and not get out for days. And, I am happy to report that I did just that. I had Thursday and Friday off and I don't work until 2pm today. So the girls and I have just hung out. We colored, played games, danced, watched movies and worked on a little ABC mouse. We also did venture out yesterday to join in on a potluck send off at the Messenger for Brett. It was nice to see everyone.

Daddy decided to join Uncle Chad last night in the fish house up at Nitti's. I have not heard any morning reports except that they just had breakfast and bloodymary's.

Soon we plan to get ready to go to Grandma's house. The girls will spend the afternoon there since I work and Daddy will come in off the lake later this evening.

Girls update:
Hadley: She is officially 5 and I have noticed a slight change in her patience with Ellie. Hopefully it is just a phase. She loves to play with her dolls and enjoys her new barbie house. She is starting to come down with a little cough. Hopefully it won't amount to much. I am sure she got it from Ellie. She has been talking a lot about dance, she points out things she learned. She also has been really good at bringing up past events and telling stories. For Christmas we got some string and needles and her and I are excited to learn how to sew together. We also got a fun sewing book with craft ideas for kids. Maybe next year we can get a sewing machine. Since she loves fashion so much, I thought we would try to incorporate the hobby of sewing.

Ellie: She is sick. It started last weekend. It was first a virus. The stomach flu. She threw up twice and didn't eat for 2 days. Now it is a respiratory cold with a cough and runny nose. Poor thing has been very whiny. She is officially potty trained with pull ups at night. I plan to do a separate post on this awesome news but for now we are all very happy with how things are going in that department. Ellie loves to play with Hadley. She plays house very well and is usually the mom. She also plays with her blocks. She is really good at coloring. She stays inside the line fairly well and she uses different colors. I am impressed. This is probably something a second child is better at because they can watch the older child. Who knows. Her thumb is in her mouth all the time thus she doesn't really talk a lot. She can talk well but it seems like we never hear her.

Here are the girls sleeping Thursday night.

Saturday morning laziness!