The baby has slept in this morning due to a
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My two children are currently splashing around, diaperless and muddy in the mud puddles left behind by the rain this morning, and having a gleefully splendid time. My eyes are sort of wide and unblinking at the thought of all the cleanup that awaits me.
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Gabe sits in the empty diaper box covered with his dinosaur blanket, making train noises. “Mommy!” he calls, “Come sit in my twain wif’ me!” After a sweaty experience yesterday of sitting beneath the dinosaur blanket, I perch atop the “blanket car”. He scuttles down into his box and “talks train”. We are in Henry the Train. In case you were wondering.
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“But Mommy!” Gabe wails pitieously, “I wan’ to go to the ch’uch wif Daddy!”
”Tonight,” I reassure him. “Daddy said tonight after supper.”
“Ok,” he sniffles.
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The house is empty. The boys are at the ch’uch wif their Daddy. They played “dwums” and watched You Tube videos on that new-fangledy-dangledy highspeed int-er-net. I could hear them chortling with glee in the background when I called Tim. I was home all by my little ol’ self. Heh heh. This I could get used to.
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Tonight Gabriel would not settle down to sleep until I had found him a “baby monitor” so he could also “listen” for the baby. The other night I had found a five-sided package of some green line stuff that looked like the baby monitor. Tonight it was MIA. I dug a pack of nine-volt batteries out of the drawer and turned it around to the white square side, “turned on the power”, made the appropriate “sqssshhh”-ing hissing monitor noises with my mouth, and told the boy that he was a good big brother. He eyed the “monitor” with a small satisfied smile and settled down with his Cheezits. Don’t tell anyone I put my son to bed with some Cheezits.
4 comments:
i love all your little "momment" you write about how do you remember them? the kids do and say cute things all day ( ok well not all day the half of the day they are not being little monsters =) ) and by the time i go to write them down i have nothing..nothing. where has my semi intellectual mind gone?? did i even spell that right?
how fun that you all got to take a trip away. you are such a great mom i hope you have a wonderful mothers day!! take care~Heidi
ps i love the pic of you and tim. you are a beautiful pregnant woman!
whoops that was supposed to be moments =)
Heidi - I'm glad my children are not alone in their plenteous "monsteresque" moments. :)
Thanks for the comment on the picture. I was just admiring the large red spot on my chin, myself. :) Heh heh heh.
i like it even better now that i saw the whole dress! very pretty and i dont think it even needs the band on the bottom. i bet you get lots of wear out of it and you can use it for your next 3 pregnancys to =) ( haha or more if you so choose =) ) every mommy needs a splurge every now and then. you deserve it ( thats what i always tell myself and it makes me feel better =) )Happy Mothers Day!~ Heidi
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