Just for a few days

H just informed me that he would give Thomas his hacis for a few days and get his basketball goal and then get his hacis back. HA! I told him no way, he was done. And he looked at me like he was shocked!
I guess this is how we often make changes, just for a few days. I guess sometimes we need a mother, or a strong Holy Spirit, to help enforce the new way! I'll keep on praying for my H.

I love being H's mom

Today was H's Munchies with Moms. It was so nice, always fun to have a moment with just one child and give him all my attention. H sang a beautiful song to the tune of Bingo-- I have a friend I really love and mommy is her name-o. And quoted a verse from Proverbs 31. We had a delightful lunch of chicken nuggets, fruit, cheese and a cupcake. He colored me a picture and made a hand print. I took a picture of him with is hand print because I know one day I'll never believe that was his! He is a special boy and it was a special lunch.

Big H

I am a little bit nervous as I write this. We just put the kids to bed, but one was quite different. I have been telling H that when he was 4, he was all done with haci (his pacifier). I have been asking who he was going to give them to, he was going to be a big boy and he should give them to a baby. Today Susanne and boys came over. As I was putting baby Thomas in his seat, I asked H if he was going to give his hacis to Thomas or Cat's new baby. He said he wanted to give them to Thomas today. He ran upstairs gathered hacis from his bed and his drawer and from the drawer downstairs, about 8 in all. He handed them over to Susanne with great confidence. "I'll just sleep with my puppy tonight," he said. He also gave Thomas a little puppy rattle that was his when he was a baby. He was so excited and so proud of himself. He immediately wanted to make some calls and pronouce his big choice. Of course I snagged one back from Susanne and put it away but he is confident. We told him if he gave them up before his birthday, we would get him a basketball goal so hopefully we can get that going in the next few days. The last thing he said to me when I was leaving him tonight was, "my haci didn't make me sleep." I said, "no, no, you'll sleep great!" We will see... I am quite proud of him though!

UPDATE: He did it! He made it through the night without a peep. Way to go H.

One year ago

I love looking back to see where we were a year ago. Looking back this was a big month! L was just starting to pull herself up, she was crawling everywhere and just is showing so much of her little personality. And look at that little head!- no curls! And yet something are just a newer version of the same, H wore his football jersey with updated number just several days ago. They still love to eat on the porch all close together and still love each other's hugs.

Do as I say, not as I do

Tonight J went to a parents meeting at Trinity. I stayed home with our kids and sweet neighbor kids, we had great fun. When the J and Mike and Tara got back and were recapping the meeting we got a good laugh-- Tara reported that the discipline report was there was too much gum chewing this year along with tardiness and texting. Hallelujah we all said, sounds great to us. J though said while he was listening he remembered he was chewing gum, several minutes later I texted him and just to top it all off, he was late! Love it!

Back for seconds

We had such a great time the first visit, we went back for more, and brought along some that we thought would love it too... they did. What a wonderful morning.

Seeing problems

Today the kids wanted to go for a bike ride. Ek got on her helmet and sunglasses. I put L's helmet on and mine. H got on his bike. "H, put on your helmet." " I can't find it." Well, whining and moaning began, mostly from H. Ek was trying to help, "H, where was the first place you saw it?" me, "You mean the last." "Oh. yeah. Where was the last place you saw it?" H, "I didn't see it the last place I saw it." And therein lies the problem. 15 minutes later, he found it in the playroom, no wonder we had trouble.