Juice

Paigey says, "this is good juice, what kind is it?"
To which I say, "look and see"
"Hmmm..." She says, "banana, meat and orange."

Ducks

Paigey as we walked through the park... "I like that cheetah duck."

Paigey's wedding plans...

my sweet three year old Paigey....  She has her little heart fixed on her childhood buddy Travis...  (His mom and I are okay with the arranged marriage idea...  we'd make good inlaws, and those two sweet kiddos sure do have a special place in their heart for each other.  Only time will tell!)

Well, the other day as I laid down with her to get ready for her nap, she says, "Can't kids get married, Mom?"
"Nope, baby," I said, "You have to wait to you're grown up."
"Okay." She says and rolls over.  Pauses, then says, "Well, when I am grown up and I get to marry Travis,  we are going to get married in our backyard and have a party and eat fruit and vegetables.  And I am going to wear a beautiful dress and a cape on my head."
:)

ps...  listening to tim McGraw's "My little girl" as I write this...  just saying, if you feel like crying and thinking of Paigey in her Cape.  :)

Souperbowl

Jordyn just asked what the Super Bowl is about and if it is held at soup plantation.

I feel like a grownup

Mom and I were talking about downton abbey, and Jordyn asked if she could watch that show too...
Me:  it's kind if a grownup show...
J:  well I feel like a grownup, I have a purse that has things in it.

All morning she's been adding things to a purse that she found while I was cleaning out a drawer in my kitchen... Included is:
My old driver license
A ring
A bag of change
A coupon for chick-fil-a
Dental floss
Listerine strips
Bandaids
A sand timer
A compass
A necklace
A whistle


Ahh. To be six and be a grownup. :)

morning cuddles

this morning i was cuddling my little sleepyhead jordy pie...  She crawled into my bed rocking her morning bedhead and quickly wrapped her little arms around me.  I told her how much i loved morning cuddles with her.

she said, "i know, I miss when we could do this everyday!"  (the seemingly unending nature of the school year is setting in).

"I do too," I told her.  "We could just snuggle as long as we wanted to with nowhere to go!"


To which she responded, "Those were the days."

I don't take picture of her rocking bedhead often, but here is what that sweet little girl looks like in the morning as taken from her sisters birthday a few months back...  She's in the background, but you get the idea fo the little tossed and turned face that wakes me up with these delightful thoughts.  :)

my little bedhead baby...

My Mommy is Never Sick

I had strep throat or something horrible the past couple of days (feeling a bit better thanks to some antibiotics and rest). Being sick was never that big of a deal to me when I worked outside of the home.... so there'd be extra work to catch up on when I came back but really it equated to a day at home, albeit feeling less than stellar, to catch up on movies and take a nap and a bubble bath while someone else does the cooking.

Yesterday the doctor offered to write me a note to take off work for a couple of days. :) Somehow I think if I gave that to Jordyn and Paige, they might not quite understand. These days, staying home from work is not really an option. The past couple days have been salvaged thanks to having wonderful neighborhood kids off from school for the summer who loved on my girls while I napped, went to the doctor, the pharmacy and tried to sleep off the inability to swallow without feeling like daggers were in my throat. :)

Anyhow, the purpose of this post. Jordyn and Paige are current playing with Little People in their room, and Jordyn has one of the kids singing a song...

"My Mommy is never sick!
My Mommy is never sick!
My Mommy is never sick!
Oh, no, no, no!

She never eats sugar,
she eats all her dinner
so she won't get sick!
And she can cuddle with me.



If someone at the supermarket
sneezes in front her,
she runs the other way!!!!!
Yes, My Mommy is never..... EVER.... SICK!!!!"


It made me smile, and made me wish I wasn't sick.... Her primary complaint (as she noted in the song) is that she can't cuddle with me when I am sick. I am glad her world is ideal in Little People Land. :)

And I think that my primary complaint about being sick as a stay at home mom is not really the lack of bubble baths and tivo shows (I've still managed to squeeze a bit of that and early bedtimes in). I think I miss the cuddles the most too. The ability to comfort my children with my very presence and touch is such a humbling and precious gift.

So for those of you not waiting to get results back on a throat culture to tell you if kissing your children will give them strep throat in 2 to 5 days, give them an extra kiss tonight, and getting to cuddle them at 2 in the morning if they had a bad dream. Enjoy kissing your hubby when he walks in the door, and sharing the covers with him tonight even if he's prone to snoring. Enjoying cooking dinner, folding laundry and putting away the dishes without wondering how many germs you might be spreading in the process. Mostly though, enjoy cuddling. :)