She's going to make a great wife someday.

Lilly made this for Jim yesterday:



Translated it reads:

Take the staples out of the wall so I can put the stickers. Jim list to do get done today in the girls room

A little background. When we moved in I put on her wall a bunch of Anne Geddes pictures and being quite stupid I put them up with a stapler. I have since taken the pictures down but I could not get the staples out of the wall without tearing the drywall apart. Lilly has these Wall stickers that she wants up, but we couldn't put them up with all these staples hanging out in the wall. I've been asking Jim to do this since the end of summer. And well, It hasn't got done yet.

Until today. Apparently the six year old honey-do list worked and when Lilly came home from school, her wall was staple free. :D

Who says 12 year olds are too old for dolls.

So Lilly really, really wants her own American girl doll for Christmas. She has been playing with Abby and her dolls and that's been ok. However, there seems to be a lot of bickering as to *how* they play.

Lilly wants to be their mom. She wants to feed them and cuddle them and feed them milk and cookies.

Like this picture below. Lilly would have this doll set up like this and expect that she'd be selling lemonade. Or perhaps she's a teacher- showing her bitty babies how to read.




Abby has other things in mind. More grown up things. More things that she thinks are *cool* and that she is wishing that she could do.

Like DJ Hero:



Yeah. The 5 year difference is starting to show. And the bickering continues. Constantly.




Can you guess what Lilly will be getting under the tree this year? I know what I'll be getting... A break from the fighting and possibly a fraction of my sanity back. (I can only hope...)