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2.20.2012
2.17.2012
Wade-ism
We've been trying to teach Wade to say, "No thank you" when he doesn't want something (instead of squealing or yelling or something like that).
The other day I put him down to bed and apparently he wasn't ready to go to sleep because I left his room and heard him crying, "nooooo dank oooooo Mama!!! Noo dank ooooooo!!"
The other day I put him down to bed and apparently he wasn't ready to go to sleep because I left his room and heard him crying, "nooooo dank oooooo Mama!!! Noo dank ooooooo!!"
2.16.2012
Lydda Grace-ism
LG is supposed to be napping.... I heard her calling and went to check, she has a cold and had gotten some nose goop on her pillow.
LG: "Look Mama!!!! Look at that spot on my pillow!!!" (in a very excited voice and with a smile)
Me: "Oops, looks like some stuff from your nose let me get that" (I wipe it off and flip her pillow over)
Now Lydda Grace you need to lay down and be very quiet until the clock says "3""
LG: "But Mama, if something happens on my pillow will you come rushing?"
LG: "Look Mama!!!! Look at that spot on my pillow!!!" (in a very excited voice and with a smile)
Me: "Oops, looks like some stuff from your nose let me get that" (I wipe it off and flip her pillow over)
Now Lydda Grace you need to lay down and be very quiet until the clock says "3""
LG: "But Mama, if something happens on my pillow will you come rushing?"
2.08.2012
today i sat...
and rocked my baby boy.
Wade woke up early from his nap today. He's congested and all snuffly and woke up crying, "hol' me!" How could I resist. We sat in the rocking chair, his head on my shoulder, burrowing in, and we just rocked. I looked at the laundry piled on the couch (still there tonight too!), thought about the bread I was preparing to make and freeze, the Sunday School project sprawled on my bedroom floor... and then I forgot about all of that and just rocked.
He fell asleep.
I fell asleep.
When I woke he was still sleeping. Sunlight was streaming in through our back windows, it was so quiet. The only sound was Wade's little stuffy breathing. I just soaked it in. The stillness, the softness of my baby in my arms.
Much is changing in our lives right now, Wade will be two in just three short months, I ask LG to stop growing, please, and she always refuses and insists that she has to grow!, Jon is pretty much done with his dissertation (a moment that used to seem so far away) and Lord willing we'll be moving to China at the end of this summer. Yeah, that last one is the real kicker for me these days, turning everything upside down as we pray and prepare and plan and think about who we'll be leaving. Living with lots of questions and only being able to trust the Lord's hand as He guides us... I guess that's how we should always live....
So I rocked Wade and I cried... never entirely sure what I was crying about...sort of half happy and half sad... it felt good.
He stirred and I rubbed his back willing him to go back to sleep for just a few more minutes. It didn't work, 30 seconds later he was wide awake and asking for a snack :)
(p.s. Lydda Grace was napping during all of this!)
Wade woke up early from his nap today. He's congested and all snuffly and woke up crying, "hol' me!" How could I resist. We sat in the rocking chair, his head on my shoulder, burrowing in, and we just rocked. I looked at the laundry piled on the couch (still there tonight too!), thought about the bread I was preparing to make and freeze, the Sunday School project sprawled on my bedroom floor... and then I forgot about all of that and just rocked.
He fell asleep.
I fell asleep.
When I woke he was still sleeping. Sunlight was streaming in through our back windows, it was so quiet. The only sound was Wade's little stuffy breathing. I just soaked it in. The stillness, the softness of my baby in my arms.
Much is changing in our lives right now, Wade will be two in just three short months, I ask LG to stop growing, please, and she always refuses and insists that she has to grow!, Jon is pretty much done with his dissertation (a moment that used to seem so far away) and Lord willing we'll be moving to China at the end of this summer. Yeah, that last one is the real kicker for me these days, turning everything upside down as we pray and prepare and plan and think about who we'll be leaving. Living with lots of questions and only being able to trust the Lord's hand as He guides us... I guess that's how we should always live....
So I rocked Wade and I cried... never entirely sure what I was crying about...sort of half happy and half sad... it felt good.
He stirred and I rubbed his back willing him to go back to sleep for just a few more minutes. It didn't work, 30 seconds later he was wide awake and asking for a snack :)
(p.s. Lydda Grace was napping during all of this!)
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