Who will you marry?

This past Sunday, Lance and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary. We talked to the kids about it being our anniversary, so of course they had a lot of questions? Ella Claire got very excited because she thought she and I were going to get to put on "a beautiful white gown..." We explained that anniversaries are like birthdays sort of. Then we asked them who they were going to marry when they grow up. Ella Claire is going to marry Carter....Carter listed several people, but when we told him he had to pick just one, he said he wanted to marry Page. She's the little girl in the pictures from our BBQ square dancing a few weeks ago. We are all getting excited about Christmas...this is the first year in our new house, but it also causes a dilemma. Their bedrooms are on the opposite side of the house from our bedroom, so when they get up, they will see what Santa left in the great room before we can see their reaction. Hopefully, they will get up around 6:30am like each day and it will still be dark and they won't notice and come straight to our room. Yesterday, the kids took a longer nap than normal. They don't nap each day, but when they do, I make sure to wake them up by 3pm or they will never go to sleep at night. Well, I accidentally fell alseep with them and when we all woke up it was 3:30pm. So, we put them down last night with our normal routine, of devotion, brush teeth, go to their rooms and say their prayers. It was around 8:45 when we got them to bed. Around 9pm I heard a lot of talking. I went to their hallway and as I peeped into Ella Claire's room, they were both in her bed under the covers and Ella Claire was reading a book to them..."DW Rides Again.." I just stepped in and reminded them it was bedtime and they were to go to sleep. I walked Carter back to his room, got him tucked in and then went and checked on Ella once more. I knew they were not sleepy, but it was 9pm. A few minutes later I heard them again. I went back and they were talking across the hall to each other...so I gave in and gave them both 2 books a piece to read in their own beds. Some time passed and I assumed they were asleep until around 10:30 when we heard them again. I told Lance it was time for him to go in and see what was up. It took him a while and when he got back he said they were both up, lights all on, in Carter's floor just reading. Ella Claire said..."Daddy can you finish this book for me?" The kids love, love, love to read. They get this from Lance because I have no reading drive in me. We have a busy weekend coming up with Christmas gatherings and such. They will celebrate their birthday at school this week, since we will be on break on their actual birthday. For some reason them turning four is really bothering me. Somehow four sounds a lot older than three. I have cried thinking about my babies, not being babies ever again. Time does fly...too fast.