Our little Hollywood moment.

Set in the kitchen. Laina (on a chair) and mama are making cookies.

Stage left, Austin comes in holding a broken pencil and walks over to the counter where he proceeds to sharpen it. When he is done he turns towards Laina, and holds it up to her.

Austin: I did this for you, Laina.

Alaina wordlessly steps down and hugs Austin in a vice-gripped hug for a long 1 minute hug. (which he returns...also without saying anything.) The two then step back, each griping both hands (and pencil) together and look deeply into each other's eyes.

Alaina states slowly & sincerely: Thank you, brother.

The hand clasping and eye staring continue for another slightly uncomfortable minute of silence (at least for the audience) until the moment has sufficiently run it's course. Austin then runs into the play room and returns with a precocious smile and fist full of pencils to sharpen.

End scene one.

Alright...you got me. I have never written a screen play before. But I swear this mini-scene could've won an Oscar. If it wasn't so sweet it would have been embarrassingly sappy. Or vice versa. Gotta love those twinnies!

And speaking of cheesy ...isn't this little poser just full of it?
And here are a few more silly things the kids have been saying:

After Alaina told on Ethan, he said, "Alaina is tettle-talling!"

Ever since we put up the Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving, we've heard a chorus of, "how many more minutes until Christmas?"

We heard a sad little melody coming from the couch. Alaina was sprawled out, staring at the Christmas tree with the tree's dimmer switch in her had. As she was singing she was dimming the lights off and then back on again. Only by sneaking closer were we able to hear the song. singing a sad song, "If you're sad and you know it, *sigh* turn off the lights. *heavy pause* if you're sad and you know it, *sigh* turn back on the lights..." And so it goes... Apparently she was bummed out.

Another Alaina quotable quote came when she was looking for her sweat shirt. She called out, "I got my sweaty pants but I can't find my sweaty shirt."