Can you repeat that?

Below is a conversation I overheard between Joel and Jenna the other night while Joel was watching TV.

Jenna: What's that?
Joel: A phone
Jenna: What's that?
Joel: A chair
Jenna: Who's that?
Joel: A corrupt senator
Jenna: Barrack Obama?

Both Joel and I swear that is what she said. I asked her to repeat it and she said it again. I haven't been able to get her to say it since, though. It was the funniest thing I have ever heard!

A picture that's worth a thousand words (or at least a couple)

Monkey Movie Night

Last night we had a monkey movie night. Jenna and Joel went to Blockbuster to get a movie, but couldn't find anything that looked really good, so they got Space Chimps. Jenna then came home, put on her monkey jammies and grabbed her favorite stuffed animal monkey. We popped in the movie, but she didn't want to let go of the box. We had a lot of fun and the movie was better than anticipated.

Anne Geddes watch out

How come Anne Geddes never thought of doing a photo shoot around food storage? I was trying to put away some food storage, but Jenna would not let me have this bucket. It was pretty funny, actually.

Pretty in Pink

We painted Jenna's bedroom a couple of weeks ago and it turned out soooo cute! I told her if she doesn't like it, I will move in there. This picture doesn't do it justice, but you can get the idea. There is a light shade of pink on top and a darker one on bottom. We are going to put up a chair rail eventually which I think will make things look even better.

What are you wearing?

I came home from visiting teaching a couple of weeks ago to find this...

Christmas & New Years

This is a little late, but here are some highlights from our Christmas:

Jenna eating dinner at my family's Christmas party. Nothing says Christmas like having lasagna for dinner!
Mom dressing Jenna up like an angel for the nativity. As soon as we started, Jenna was out of her costume. Oh, well. Joel & I played Mary and Joseph.
I really wanted to make cookies with Jenna, so we decided to make some sugar cookies for Santa. It was the most fun we have had in a long time! She was such a good helper! We made the dough Tuesday night, then finished them up on Wednesday (Christmas Eve).
Like I said, we had fun!
On Wednesday, Jenna helped me roll out the dough and cut out the cookies.
Daddy helped, too.
Decorating the finished product.
My cute $4 plate.
Cookies for Santa! We actually forgot to set the plate out. Oh, well. The cookies were REALLY good.
Grandma H. reading Jenna "Llama, Llama, Red Pajama". Jenna loves this book! She asks to ready "Nama, Nama" every night!
Cousin Lucy gave Jenna this fairy skirt for Christmas. She loved it! She pranced around in it all night.
Jenna in the monkey jammies that Santa's elves brought.
Santa brought Jenna a table and chairs for Christmas. He even took her toy dishes and her stuffed bunny and set them up ready to play!
Jenna had to open her presents sitting at her table.
New Years: "Can we go to bed yet?"
For New Years, we had some friends over. We ate pizza, sat around and talked, then bowled on the Wii. Afterwards we watched a really dumb movie. All in all, it was a lot of fun.