Always Watching

I never realized just how much this little girl is always watching me....until tonight when I witnessed her grab my tweezers and attempt to pluck the hair on her head. Why? She's seen mommy on her search and destroy missions. Grey hair.

Flashback Friday-Brothers

Wordless Wednesday Pic

Boy

It's so hard for Jason and I to comprehend the fact that this little guy is headed to kindergarten next year...in fact, it's hard to grasp the concept that he's defintely no longer a toddler but a full fledged active, playful, imaginative BOY! Yes...boy. In every sense of the word. Smelly, dirty, invinceable, and silly. As he grows and his "at-the-hip" need for me lessens, I feel simultanously proud and sad. To watch him run off to his group at t-ball practice with no fear or inhibitions...I realize, that although it's been in process all along, this really feels like the beginning of his independence and my inability to monitor almost every moment of his life. It feels as though life is in hyperdrive and although I have him under my roof for another 13 years, I know in my heart that those 13 years will be fleeting. Until then, I'm going to hug and love on my smelly dirty, invinceable, silly boy...and as I do everyday, I will ask him,

"You'll never be too big to hug and cuddle your momma, right?"

And I'll continue to hope that I get the same response everytime.

"Never"

Why I am such a lucky mom...

Another Sunny Afternoon

Kate: I found her screaming and frozen still in the grass by the garden shouting, "Mommy...scared, mommy, scared!!!" My worst fear was that she spotted a snake (again)...but then considering she has so little fear that she picked a dead one up, that didn't make sense either. So what had her so frightened? Her shadow. Yep.Making friends with our shadows. GOOD GRIEF! MY THIGHS ARE HUGE!!!!
Jonathan: Hunting snakes with friend, Myles. When hunting snakes failed, I heard Jonathan say, "Hey Myles, let's kill ants!" Myles replied, "You know how you kill ants? You feed them sand." So off they went...with handfuls of sand.
Nick: Always the shadow himself...running after his friends, Jonathan and Myles. Fearless...no sense of self-preservation. More importantly, as sweet as can be. "Mommy, you're my best friend!" Awe schucks! (I wont' mention the fact that he'll tell me I'm no longer his best friend when he's mad at me).

AM I BLESSED, OR WHAT?

Recent Photos

Another reason I have been neglecting this blog. I am booked through this month and although I love spending time with other famlies...I have decided to take June off to spend my weekends with my own family. :)

Wordless Wednesday

She sings the Slippery Fish song from our Library Time like a champ...so full of diva drama!

Another great weekend.

Another trip to the KC Zoo...couldn't pass up another beautiful Missouri spring day. :) Thanks again, Aunt Katie, for our Friends of the Zoo pass...it will be well used!