first day back to school after christmas... whew!

today, after school, i promised the kids they could (finally!) eat the gingerbread house.  thinking they would each get a window or a door or a tree or something... lionel yells, "i call i get the roof!"  the ENTIRE thing was eaten by them: a house, a tree, a gingerbread man, and a snowman!

ralph was trying to get a piece of candy off of it and couldn't get it with his fingers...
ralph: mom!  i want to flick these things off and i can't!  can you please get me a statula?

tonight cecelia and lionel were talking about siblings-in-law.  lionel decided if he married wolf, then lainey would be his sister-in-law and he would     give lainey lots and lots and lots of sloppy kisses!
dad: do you see me giving my sisters-in-law lots of sloppy kisses
lionel: (CRACKING up!) hahahahha, yeah!  right!  like you give mollie and aunt jen kisses!
cecelia: (CRACKING UP even more!) hahahaha!  did you hear him?  he called aunt mollie just regular mollie!!  hahahahhaha... regular mollie!

cecelia was telling me about some thing in computer class today...

cecelia: and then diego came on and we call him a horror movie because the backpack and animals and trees all talk and stuff and it's like a horror movie!