There are moments when I really miss having a baby to hold, or when I think back to Isaac or lily being curled up in my arms and I feel sad. But, mostly, I just LOVE the age that they are today. I love interacting with them as little people, who can do so many things on their own, and who say the funniest, sweetest, most interesting things. Every day they make me laugh and smile and say to myself, how in the world did I ever get these two precious people. I know that most days come and go without me taking note of all the wonderful things that they say and do, but lately it has just been too good not to write down. Here are some favorites:
1. A couple days ago Dan came home from work and he was sitting outside with Isaac. Dan asked Isaac, “how was your day?”. Isaac thinks for a moment and then replies, “It was a struggle.” A little bewildered, Dan looks at him and says, “It was a struggle??”. Isaac says, “yeah, it was a struggle, because when we were in the fabric store today Lily was really misbehaving.”
2. A few months back Dan bought Isaac a Derrick Rose, Chicago Bulls jersey. It was kind of a pricey item for a 3 year old. Well, as it turns out Isaac will NOT wear it. We have tried everything to get him to wear it. The other night at dinner a friend of ours was over and was telling Isaac how much he LOVES basketball jerseys and how cool it is to wear them. Isaac takes a long pause and says, “Josh, I do not appreciate that comment.” Then another pause and says, “I do not appreciate basketball jerseys.”
3. The kids have gotten into this phase where they are always asking Dan and I (and babysitters) to tell them stories about when we were little. It’s mostly cute, but sometimes taxing. Anyway, tonight I was laying down with Lily and after I told her a story she said that she wanted to tell me a story. Here is her story, “I was in your belly, and then I fell out, and then a big scary monkey came and got me (at this point I giggled a little and she looked at me and said, Mommy…DON’T LAUGH!), and so the big monkey came and got me, and then I found a big Daddy cookie, and I ate it, and then I got sick, and then I came home.”
4. Tonight we were driving in the car and Isaac said that he saw a super big house. So I asked him, “When you get older, do you want to live in a small house or a super big house?” He paused for quite awhile…I wondered if he forgot the question, then he answered, “I want to live in a medium house.” And I said, “what is a medium house like?” And he said, “just like the house that we live in now. Accept I don’t think that I will live in Nashville, I would like to live in the house next to our blue house in Wheaton.”
5. The other day I was asking the kids if they would like it if we had another baby. And they enthusiastically said that they would, and that they would be my helpers. Lily said that she would like to give the baby a bath and put “her” jammies on. Isaac said that he would feed the baby milk, and give the baby toys, and that if “she” got sad that he would always sing “her” a song.
What a sweet sweet gift it is for me to enjoy these moments.
