Imaginary Friends

I don't recall ever having imaginary friends growing up. I don't think Sam ever did. But Natty does, and I love it! We first started hearing about Iedi. Iedi is a girl, but not a very nice girl. Sam and Natty sometimes scare each other that Iedi is coming (for which they might get the dreaded punishment of sitting on the porch alone for a time-out). Then last week we started hearing about Tretcher. It turns out Tretcher is Iedi's brother, but he's nice. So funny! Other favorite Natty sayings: "you're teasing me" (when I tell her in all honesty that I think the candy is all gone and then she finds out there is some) or "I was just teasing you" (when she tells us she put away the toys and then we look to find them still out), "that is SO yum", "they're making us go backwards!" (when we're on the freeway and a car passes us), adding an extra "-es" to plural words eg. "cowses."

Rolling!

Gabriella started rolling over about a month ago. She loves being able to get around a little. I'll try to lay her on a blanket, but pretty soon she's licking the dirt off the dirty floor instead.

Hiking

Nate took a few days off the week of Thanksgiving and we went for a little hike. It was so fun to have great weather and enjoy being out as a family! We went to the little cave up Farmington Canyon and the kids loved it. Sam and Natty both had fun collecting rocks. Natalie would tell me to close my eyes, then she would hide a rock and have me find it for her to read the "clue" on it for me, such as "go catch up with Daddy and Sammy."