Yesterday morning was the first day back to school for my kids following the week long Thanksgiving break. My 5 year old, Lilyana, is always a bear to wake up in the mornings. I come in to their room each morning singing, "Good morning, Go-o-od morning, ain't it great to stay up late?!" The lights are turned on bright and I do a body rub down to start to stir her, and she normally finds the edge of her covers and pull them over her head and pulls it tight so I can't remove her covers. Then we transition into a full-on tickle war so she loosens her grip on her covers and I yank them off. It takes the two girls about 20 minutes simply to get dressed. However, yesterday was different. I went in to wake them up and they both popped up like bread out of a toaster. There was a rush of sleepy words, "Can we go find Candy Cane before we get dressed? Please? Pretty Please?" I used my cell phone to capture video of them searching the house and I told them they only had 3 minutes to find her.
They raced downstairs and first searched near the fish tank where Candy Cane was fishing the morning before. I gently hinted that she might be in a different room this time. They each passed right by her at least 3 times. Time was up, I told them to start getting ready and maybe they'd find her when they weren't exactly looking for her, and just then my 5 year old let out a squeal and a giggle as she spotted Candy Cane stuck in our vase. I was still capturing video and caught my 5 year old gingerly touch Candy Cane.
I'm trying to find a way to get the video loaded to share, but it's not working right now. But as we played it back my 7 year old, Isabella caught Lily touching the elf on the play back. Lily denied it, until she saw it herself on camera. She was embarrassed. It was cute.
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