Tierney's letter to Santa

Dear Santa,
How are your reindeer? I love Christmas! I want a DS, a DS case, the three Pet Shop DS games, and an American Girl Doll and books. I want Mario Cart for DS. Have a great Christmas!
Love
Tierney Perkins

(can you tell she wants whatever her big sister wants)

Tay's letter to Santa

Dear Santa,
How are your reindeer? I want a Yoshi Island DS game and a American Girl doll. Also the High School Musical 3 DVD. I will leave you lots of cookies and some milk. Merry Christmas!
Your friend,
Taylor Perkins

(she even drew pictures of the milk, cookies, Christmas tree and snowman)

Tay Third Grade Picture

Here is Tay's school picture. It seems like they took forever since she was sick the day they had pictures and had to have them taken when they did re-takes. She looks so old.

Can we share the beer?

Tierney and Tay fell asleep this afternoon in the living room. I think they are both bordering getting sick. Tierney is complaining of a sore throat and they both have runny noses so I was mean and made them rest today. Well I had made some snacks in the croc pot but they were still sleeping and Marshall and I were starving so I went and got us some and some drinks. Well when I came into the living room with everything Tierney was awake and then went and sat next to Marshall. She then asked him "can we share the beer" and when he said no she started crying and said "what can I have to drink". Poor girl thought she was going to go thirsty!

Merry Christmas!

The girls and I went shopping yesterday with Ethin and Megan. We saw a side of Tierney that I haven't seen before. She was telling people Merry Christmas, giving people fives, telling them that she is four and she is going to have her number five and number six birthday at the Super 8, holding the door for people (pretty funny seeing a four year old holding the door open for adults but boy was she proud when they told her thank you), and telling people that her name is Tierney and then spelling it for them. I just couldn't believe it normally she is so shy and won't talk to people even if they talk to her. Then today I had to run and get groceries so she came along to push the little cart at Joe's and was again telling people that she is four and even gave a guy a five there. Maybe she's coming out of her shell... better watch out!

I'm not going to smile nice!

I was talking to the girls tonight about getting their annual Christmas picture taken together. We were discussing when we thought we could get them taken and Tierney informed Taylor and I that "I'm not going to smile nice". She then proceeded to cross her arms and make a grumpy face and then stated "I'm going to do this". She did so well when she had her birthday pictures taken that I thought this would be cake. But she has been VERY grumpy this week and I should have known better. So wish us luck on this one!

Four Years!

Here are Tierney's four year pictures. Of course we had them taken dressed like Fancy Nancy and with the Fancy Nancy doll and dog. I can't believe how grown up our baby looks!