Birthday requests and Friday Funnies

 Have you ever heard of a 3 year old asking for a pillow for his next birthday?  It's either the saddest present request or the funniest.  I'll go with it being a funny request.  I believe his exact words were, "mama, can I have a new pillow for my birthday, I threw up on the other one?"  Or maybe that was Caleb that threw up on the other one.  Either way, we're short on pillows around here and that's what he's going to get.  I also found a Knight's costume for the dress up box.  I'd seen one in INDIGO during the summer, but I think they wanted about $50.  I got this one for under $4, brand new.  Thanking the Lord for the little things:)
  Last night Kiersten surprised one of the men at prayer meeting by turning herself around and starting to go down the stairs.  He was like, "does she know how to do that?"  It's pretty amazing to me.  I showed her once how to do it and the next time I went downstairs she got on her tummy and started scooting down after me! She's also very good at getting on and off our bed.  After I nurse her in the morning I usually put the blankets over her a bit and leave the room.  Usually within the next 30 minutes she's walking out the door to find me.  She seems to have an amazing ability to track my location.  I can be in the bedroom or the bathroom and she walks down the hall, stops at the door and starts the mama chant. 
  Yesterday Elyssia wanted to pretend she was getting married.  First she wanted to marry Garrison, but he had just woken up and didn't want to go along with her plans.  After enlisting Caleb, there seemed to be a change of mind on Garrison's part.  Caleb was escorting Elyssia out in her "bridal attire", when Garrison shouted, "you can't marry her, she's my wife!"  Talk about awkward:) Caleb, then replied, "NO, she's my wife!". Elyssia asked me to do the vows.  I ended all the hullabaloo with just a couple of words.  "No, I'm not a preacher and I will not marry you."  She was devestated, but I was happy because I'd helped to avoid a very sticky situation.  Garrison and Caleb would have been married to the same woman, their sister, which would have made me their mother in law and that's just not gonna happen:)  So, hoping the Knight costume will spark their imaginations in a different direction.
  Now it's on to homeschooling and cleaning my house in preparation of all the visitors to come.  Really hoping to get a nap in somewhere.  Kinda sad that it's not even 8:30 and I'm wishing for a nap.  I'm sure you can guess that I chose to read over going straight to bed, so I've created this tired situation and now it's my job to get busy and keep myself awake til around 11:30 when the little ones drift off to sleep...