Frith O’Steen

Notable quotes from Decker over the past week:

“Stop making my nose smell your food”

“The Grinch won’t steal OUR Xmas tree (?)”

“I love Xmas! Sometimes I hate Xmas and it makes me grumpy. But today I LOVE Xmas!”

“Mommy, you can come downstairs with me and have juice tomorrow morning, because you are my friend”

“Sutter, stop playing! It’s sleepytime” (this, after having wound his little brother up with multiple rounds of ‘throw and fetch the toys from the bed’)

Decker, do you remember where Santa lives?  “On the roof!”

“We’ll give Santa carrots to bring up to the reindeer on the roof. But not oats, because they don’t taste very good”

(Pulling my hair up into two tufts on either side) “Mommy, you look like a fox!” (hey, I’ll take that one!)

“All of us, all of us smell…” (attempting to sing along to “Rainbow Connection”)

This child has lost his mind this Xmas season, and is nuts for all the stuff. Particularly the advent calendar, tree ornaments, and battery-operated singing Rudolph toy. He cuddles it in a near-hypnotic state, and plays it over and over and over and over and over and over and over. And yes, Sutter adores it too.