This morning when Staley was getting ready for school, I told her to make sure to dress warm since it was going to be so cold. I said, "It's -9 degrees out right now." Staley asked, "What's the windshield?"
#windchill
Briggs doesn't say "my sisters." He always says "the sisters." As in "Are the sisters in their room?" Or "What are the sisters doing?"
#notclaimingthem
Around Christmas, the kids loved to drive around town looking at the Christmas lights. Or the "farkly (sparkly) lights", as Briggs called them. All the kids had special requests for specific houses or lights they wanted to see as we were driving around. One night, Briggs asked to go see the "projector robot." We had no idea what he was talking about, but he was so insistent. He said it was a robot that had colors in it's stomach. When we told him we didn't know where it was, he said, "It's outside. It's at a house." When those very specific descriptions didn't help, he kept saying, "It's far ahead! Go far ahead!" Even with all his helpful directions, we couldn't find it. We looked for the projector robot on multiple occasions with no success. Finally, on Christmas Eve, we were driving around out by the lake and we passed a house. Excitedly, Briggs shouted, "The projector robot!!!!" In front of one house was an inflatable snow globe. The snow globe had a projector that swirled different colors. The top of the snow globe did look sort of like a robot head and the handles on the sides looked like robot arms...it really did look like a robot with swirly colors in it's stomach.
#Christmasmiracle
