My Sweet Girl

Every mother should have a five year-old girl on Mother's Day.  Olivia's class made gifts for their mom's on Mother's Day and she was so excited to give me my present.  When I went to pick her up at school on Friday she came walking out the door with a decorated pot and marigold plant.  When she saw me, she had the sweetest, happy, hopeful look on her face.  It broke my heart!  It's still broken.  All day Saturday she was looking forward to Sunday.  On Sunday morning as soon as she woke up I heard her get a something out of her drawer and she came in to my room with her card and a drawing she had made.  It was so touching that she was so excited for a holiday that didn't have anything to do with her.  She is a wonderful girl.

Don't You Dare

Jacob is at a great age right now.  You have to watch what you say however.  One day I must have said, "don't you dare."  As in, "Nathan don't you dare till up the boulevard," or maybe it was, "Nathan, don't you dare tear down the garage to expand your garden space."  Whatever it was, it is now Jacob's favorite expression.  And he says it with gusto.  Usually it's, "don't you dare change my diaper."  And frankly, I would prefer not to dare but sometimes it does have to happen.

An Afternoon at Our House

After a day of rain, the children and I went out to play in the backyard.  My little Henry, seeing the sandbox, which had now become a pool, crawled right in.  Okay, I thought, he's already dirty, might as well let him play.  So he spent a happy half hour splashing muddy water and attempting to chew on sticks and rocks.  In the meantime, my little Jacob, had to change his shirt because he was blowing bubbles and a bubble popped on his shirt, making it "dirty."

After awhile, Henry started to look like a muddy little piggy so I decided to take him in and give him a bath in the kitchen sink.  I tried to get his clothes off while he tried to un-pot a plant, drink someone else's orange juice, and fling various things off the kitchen counter.  Finally, I got him in the sink, sprayed him off with the hose (very handy) which he loved, and got him dressed again.  All that fun must have been tiring because he promptly fell asleep.