Hug Twice

I talked to an old friend on the phone this afternoon.  I know she reads this blog (and all the blogs) so I will wave and say hi.  :wave: 

It was funny, because I haven’t talked to her in several years, and yet it seemed like no time at all had passed.  I was transported back in my head to college and before the kids took over my life, but at the same time I was the grownup I’d become and not the kid I was back then.

I think it is because even though I picture myself as who I am now, I pictured her in my head as the same exact person she was back then.  So I was in the present and the past simultaneously.

My brain is a very odd place.

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Alexa was sitting in my lap, and looked up at me and said, very distinctly, “I love you.”

And grabbed my head and kissed me.

Then, announced “All done.”  and got off my lap and wandered off.

Hopefully, not all done loving me. 

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On Monday, CJ declared he needed to poop and went and used the potty all on his own.

On Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, he went in his underwear while the babysitter was here.

And Friday, he also told me he needed to go poop, and used the potty on his own.  Which again, did not stop him from going in his underwear when the babysitter was here.

On the one hand, I didn’t have to change any pooped-in underwear.  On the other hand, we had three pairs thrown away and I’m afraid we’ll never be able to use the babysitter again.  And we like that babysitter.

Matt gets home tomorrow.  I need a nap. 

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Alexa, in one of her post-midnight wanderings with me, kept handing me a little stuffed bear and saying, very loudly, “Da!”

Which I thought meant Dada, and I told her repeatedly I was not going to wake up her father to give him a bear.

Eventually, she took the bear, shook it, and yelled “Dan!”, and it dawned on me…

She wanted the bear to dance.

And so I pranced it around and made it dance, and she was a happy camper. 

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Matt and Alexa were playing on our little indoor slide (present from grandparents for her birthday last year, yes she is spoiled) while I was tutoring online, and when I finished, I came over and picked Alexa up.  Her hair was in her face, as always, because she hates hair ties, bows, ribbons, headbands, and anything else that would keep her hair out of her eyes.   I looked at her and, without ever touching her hair, said “You really need a hairtie.”

She looked right back at me, pouted her little lip, and said, as clear as day “Uh-uh, uh-uh, no.” and then put her hand on top of her head squarely covering up where I usually try to put her hair up.

My kids are so cute I could eat them up. 

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