Granny's Chair

A few months back my grandma broke her leg. Like most she has been using a walker and wheel chair to get around. And in my opinion is doing pretty well considering it was such a bad break. Well for the last few months anytime we mention Granny, Cade brings up her broke leg. Last night we went to Hobby Lobby so that I could get some things for the kids. When we walked into the door there were two wheel chairs sitting at the front of the store. I would have never even noticed them. However, as soon as we are in Cade goes running over and hollers over to us, “Look it’s Granny’s chair.” Haha he is so funny!! I guess he will forever relate wheel chairs to poor Granny and her broke leg. ;)

Boys and Boogers (2 for the price of 1)

Due to ridiculous temperatures I went against my better judgment and took the kids to play at the mall. It is a great place to burn off energy if school is in session. If not it is total chaos. Too many kids and some of them are WAY too big to be playing on the kiddy equipment. Of course this just happen to be one of those days. There were 3 boys there with their grandma and they were all well in their pre-teen years. Well little miss Caylee took a liking to them. I really didn’t think much about it until I look over and see my little diva in action. She is leaned against a pole, legs crossed at the feet, and arms crossed on her chest just a chatting away with these pre-teen boys. Her face is smitten, and mine is as white as a ghost. She isn’t even 2 and here she is standing like a 15 yr. old just a rattling away with these boys. I called her over and informed her that she was WAY to young to even go there and they were WAY too old. Dear God help us with this one, lol.

On another note. Last night Caylee was having issues with her nose. She notices a booger on her finger. She looks at me and says, “Oh no.” She then turns away and tries to put the booger back in her nose. Haha another very funny Caylee moment. God do I love that girl.

Smell My Pants

This evening I went to hang Cade’s clothes in his closet. Out of nowhere he comes up behind me and plants his face right in my behind. He then proceeds to sniff. I ask him what he was doing and he said, “Smelling my pants.” I then ask him if they smelt good and he said, “No mom they stink.” He never even cracked a smile. Then because Cade and Caylee always do everything alike, Caylee comes up and plants her face in my behind. And as you guessed it she takes a big whiff and says, “Stinky” while pinching her nose. Haha, I told them that I didn’t stink, and they went on about their business. Ah the touching moments of being a Mom. ;)

Peanut Butter Pits

A few months ago as I was bathing the kids I decided to start teaching them how to wash in the tub. I scrub them down really good and then hand the washrag over to them. We cover every body part and they think they are pretty smart doing so. After meal time I always hand them a wet-wipe and tell them to clean their hands and face. Well I started noticing that after Caylee washed her face and hands she would wipe her armpits. I know pretty funny huh? One day as I went to get the wipes I noticed peanut butter on her shirt under each arm. I thought weird how in the heck did she do that? Then I came out of my mommy fog and realized that she had split her sandwich and rubbed her armpits with it. LOL She has done this on two diff. occasions. Both times I missed her in action but always have a good laugh when I look down and see peanut butter on her shirt. She is such a silly girl.

The Rocking Chair

I have always loved rocking my babies to sleep. Cade stopped wanting to rock when he was barely a year old. He would fight and scream and cry. It was awful. I finally gave in and would just put him in our bed and pat his butt until he would fall asleep and then put him in his crib. Then we found out we were going to have Caylee so at about 16 months old he went to a toddler bed. Every single night we read together and then turn out the lights. It took him a month or two to learn to stay in bed but then he never got up and would just fall asleep. A couple of times in the last few weeks he has ask me to rock him after I rock Caylee. Well today it brought me to tears. Not just tears but full blown bawling with boogers running everywhere. He crawled up here with his white shirt and lay here while I rocked. Then he reaches up and starts rubbing my cheek. He talked in a very quite voice. The conversation was about having two names, the color of our skin, and numbers. None of it made much sense but it was one of those rare moments where it is quite in the house and it is just me and my precious baby boy that will FOREVER be engraved in my heart. Moments like that don’t come everyday but when they do come the unconditional love and compassion burns in your soul like nothing else in this world!!

Today I was going through some things in our filing cabinet. All of a sudden the kids are at my bedroom door and Cade is very excited. He said, “Momma we holding hands.” I look up from the mountain of papers and he raises his hand. Him and Caylee are holding hands smiling very proudly at me. I was pretty excited myself due to the fact that they usually spend the day fussing with each other. I ask him if he would like me to take a picture and he said yes. They were both really pleased with themselves, haha. Then this evening after dinner I was flipping through a mag. He comes running into the living room saying, “Brown, brown, Caylee brown.” Within seconds she comes out of the kitchen with a brown crayon. I walk around the corner and all my white cabinets are now brown, one wall is brown, my oven is brown, and the dishwasher (black) has waxy streaks all over the door. The crayons were in a bottom cabinet that has child-proof locks. However, Caylee managed to get her finger in the door just enough to get out a crayon. So this evening I will be scrubbing my kitchen from top to bottom, huh.

Coffee

Tonight the kids were playing while I was watching TV. Caylee stops and grabs her sippy cup. When she gets to my chair she shakes it showing me that it is empty and says, “Coffee, coffee.” LOL I said, “No I don’t think you need any coffee but I will get you some water.” She is so funny.