U.S. Citizens

I am officially declaring October 7 to be "Citizenship Day" at our home!  I've just realized/discovered that Tyler and Nick each became U.S. citizens on the SAME DAY, five years apart (2005, 2010)!  How cool!  We'll do something just a little special and patriotic on that day from now on.  I knew the dates were close, but while fixing up my next year's calendar, I thought I'd pull out their certificates and check the dates on them, and voila!  They're the same day!

Tyler had a good day yesterday.  He was able to go to the Saints game with a friend who had sideline passes!  Tracy Porter shook his hand and gave him one of his gloves!  He was very excited about that.  Oh, and we were of course at the game, too.  And the Saints won!

Nick was singing the other morning (not unusual - just the songs change), and came out with, "We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy To You!"  cute!

 Here's this year's Christmas card pic.

Seriously!

It was 24 degrees when we woke up this morning.  BRRRRR!  Nick was already up and dressed, and when I lay next to Tyler to wake him up, Nick crawled back into the bed with us.  I told the boys how cold it was, and Nick said, "Twenty-four degrees?  Are you seriously?"  lol

Then when we were sitting in carline waiting for the school grounds to open, I discovered that Nick had left his math homework paper in David's car last night.  I was fussing at him about it (because I had to fuss at him again for the same thing being done previously), and he decided to pull his ole poor-pitiful-me trick.  He actually said to me, "In Ukraine my grandmother made a document that says that I have a bad memory."  ha!  I did let him know that excuses won't fly...