Ha ha. I loved that song. Ok, so none of the above are around here but things are going well. It's been SUPER cold this week. It was 80 degrees on Sunday and we were enjoying time in our backyard and the next morning it was 20! Someone told me the cold front that came through changed the temperature 40 degrees in about one hour! Crazy! I feel bad making Jill stand at the bus stop in this weather (and I don't enjoy standing there with her!) but we're getting used to it. And it's supposed to be in the 60's this weekend, so it's all good. :)
I (Brandi) was sick last week and Ben was wonderful enough to come home from work and take care of the girls for me. I was really down and out with some flu or something. Then I had almost 24 hours of health when I lost my voice! Luckily that was some fluke that had no other symptoms and I've been feeling good since. I REALLY don't want to be sick for Christmas like I was last year, so I'm fine with having it out of the way now!
We've been partying big time lately. The YW hosted a dance for the couples in the ward and they provided childcare but I was too sick to go to that one, darn it! But we had a church family party on Friday and last night was a church women party and tomorrow is Jill's class party at school. School gets out at 1 PM on Friday and then I have my Jill all to myself for a couple of weeks! We're both excited about that but I have a feeling she'll be begging to go back to school before January starts!
Ben was on tv this week. Woo hoo! He's hit the big time now on a local Abilene nightly newscast! He gave a great quote and was very articulate and handsome. :) But the caption at the bottom of the screen said, "Ben Bryman." :( Oh well. They can't report ALL the news accurately. :)
Jill had her first piano recital last week and did quite well on her "Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer" piece. She does way better in the comfort of her own home and was nervous but I was so proud of her. I asked the teacher what to have her wear (I had assumed a dress) and she said, "Oh I just say no jeans. We have everything from pants to dresses." She made it seem very casual (and she, in fact, wore nice dark JEANS to the recital), so Ben & I suggested to Jill that she wear these cute pin striped trousers and a pretty pink shirt (she had originally wanted a dress). She looked great. We walked in and every other girl was in a frilly dress. Ugh! Way to go Mom! She didn't even seem to notice and didn't say anything but next time, she will be wearing a dress! Also, she memorized her song and I was impressed but sometimes she'd play an occasional wrong note (not a bad sounding note, but like a different part of the song). I noticed she was looking at her fingers and not the music. I was trying to convince her to play the music. So at home she practiced and did a great job but at the recital, she got flustered trying to look at the music ("to make you happy Mom!") and didn't play it as well as if she was looking down at her fingers the whole time. Ugh! Way to go Mom! So I'm going to leave the teaching to the teacher and just enjoy her playing without critique! She didn't get upset at all that she didn't play it perfectly and I was so proud. I was a bit of a baby when I was younger and if I couldn't play perfectly, I would cry and quit. My poor mother. :)
Miranda is so stinkin' smart. I know my kids are all geniuses but really she is amazing me. It's that great age where they want to learn and they retain so much of what you tell them. A lot of times I think or even say, "Miranda, you're not old enough to do this," and she does everything she can to prove me wrong. I definitely underestimate her when I consider her one of "the babies." I've always called her & Natalie that but really they aren't babies at all anymore. It's fun to be teaching her to write her letters (Jill has already taught her a lot) and she asked me to teach her how to read, so that she can read the cards on a family game that we play together. "I want to read it myself!" So she comes up with something that she thinks it might say and then grins her beautiful grin and hands the card to us for us to tell her what she's supposed to do in the game.
Natalie's new favorite phrase is, "Zat mine?" We'll be dishing up food... "Zat mine?" We'll be folding laundry and she'll see her pile... "Zat mine?" She's very possessive and her favorite thing to do with Miranda is say, "NOOO MINE!!!" They will do this back and forth all day long if I don't stop them. She also thinks that Miranda's name is Natalie, so anytime she wants to talk to her, she bellows, "Nat - a- leeeee." Very funny. Perhaps she picked that up because we often mistakenly call Miranda, "Natalie." :)
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