ShannonAlbert.com - June 2009

Not an elf voice or elevator listed...whew!

Payton was in a play tonight called "Last Stop Till Christmas" that she's been rehearsing for the last several weeks. I had read the script and knew it would be a cute play. They did a great job. Ironically, chatty Payton played a mime. :)

Me: Blake, I like this music, is it Cirque du Soleil?
Blake: Yeah, Payton hates it.
Me: Is that why you put it in?
Blake: Yeah, I'm serious, she REALLY hates it.

Blake has started to question the existence of Santa recently. He says some kids on the bus are saying that Santa isn't real and that parents actually put out the presents. Who are these kids and how do I mute them?!

To test it, Blake decided that he wouldn't tell us what he wanted for Christmas but said Santa would know. Yeah, good experiment kid. A little too good.

Payton vowed to get the information out of him so we have a list:
- his own blog
- a voice for his elf
- an elevator

Ok, maybe Santa isn't real.

One of the weird/quirky/random/adorable things that Andy likes is those trashy court shows on TV like Judge Cristina or People's Court or whatever. Can't figure out why he likes them but he does. Tonight in our living room, the kids decided to have their own court case that was about as absurd as those TV shows but that's what we do best here. It was a divorce case in which each child argued why they should be granted a divorce from the other. My children are sweet.

So they both had their arguments and called their witnesses and when Payton was questioning Blake she said "do you or do you not scream for some weird reason while I am talking?" to which Blake said "no, I don't have a reason."

She followed up with "do you or do you not throw out random things and interrupt me while I'm talking" to which Blake said "Poop. I'm just demonstrating." Not sure he understood that he wasn't supposed to be helping her, he was supposed to be against her.

The judge (Andy) decided to grant them the divorce so they are officially each only children which we already knew anyway. Glad we got that solved.