Every once in a while I’ll be going through my day with the girls and “un-vent” some little trick I’m sure a 100 mothers before me, have also invented. I always think “I should blog that!” but I don’t. Well now I am even if I’m starting a little late.

BG loves being first, this is pretty standard behavior for a 4yo but it does tend to grate on my nerves after about 100 times and I worry about her always thinking she has to be first. So this evening when the girls asked for some cow cheese to tide them over before the baked chicken was ready, and I said “whose first?!” and BG said “ME ME ME!” I did something I sometimes do when I’m not sleep-deprived. I said to her “Okay sissy here you go your first, give this to LG!” and she did it without even thinking. Because she still got to hold it first, she didn’t care if she didn’t eat it first, she just wanted it in her hand first. Technically speaking LG wound up with the first piece and she still got to feel triumphant. I have no idea if this will have positive long term effects, but it seems like a nice way to re-direct the “first-ness” of my 4 year old!

LG looked so funny when I put her in the red dress BG wore two years ago. She’s just more “baby” then her big sister was at that age and the silhouette looked a little too big girl for her! It turned out cute in the photo above with them both sitting. We used this for our Holiday card this year. We use the term Holiday because in our family we celebrate Hanukah and Christmas both to some degree. American is a melting pot and my little family is a very good example of that! My girls even have a tiny bit of Cherokee indian in them along with a myriad of other interesting DNA! I’m actually first generation American, on my fathers side.

LG’s favorite present this year was a sweet little singing-lightup birthday cake (leap frog I believe) and BG has been most excited over her Mini Lalaloopsy Treehouse Playset (which I got on Amazon Vine, super score) and the very cool snow sled from G’ma. I was fairly impressed by the Lalaoopsy set and may have to get BG some more of that line, she seemed to really love it.

The husbeast contributed some $$$ for me to get a new lens, and let me pick something out at Target (a canon printer I have to return because it wouldn’t read my CF cards) and I got lots of other cool goodies (such as a neat wooden needle gauge!) and the ever welcome $$$ from my mom and dad. It was a really nice holiday season. I suppose it’s not over with New Years just a few days away, but I’m going to be a bit oblivious as I work into oblivion on lots of fun designs, trying to get  the last details perfect!