He touched my heart

After dinner the other day, moses asked if I could play with toys in his room with him. I told him I'd finish cleaning up dinner and then I'd come join him. He ran to his room for just a minute. Then he came back to the kitchen and he said, "I came back, Mommy." I asked him if he was came back to play in the kitchen, he said, "No Mommy, I came back to be with you, because I love you. I'm going to help you." Then he proceeded to bring everything from the living room into the kitchen carefully asking me where they should go and putting them there. 

The same night he told Shane, "Daddy, it's going to rain, make sure not to get wet." 

He takes care of us. And he's only three, so I'm sure it gets even better from here. 

It's hard to really capture in words, but I feel like my little heart is constantly shredded from how over-full these kids make it. Bursting at the seams. 

Kids, watching the dryer for a few minutes, on one of many sick days this week. Love them. 

GDFR

While playing on his own, I heard Moses sing, "Going Down For Real." I know we listen to it on the radio, but I suddenly feel very aware that I don't know what that song is about.  

Socks

I asked Moses to remember to put on some socks this morning. In response, he says, "okay, mommy! Are we going to daycare or to church today?"

I'm guessing he has earmarked in his mind which are daycare socks and which are church socks. :) 

Big boy underwear

Night 1 of no pull ups, and Moses woke up dry! We ran out of them and didn't bother to buy new ones. And he recently told me, while wearing pull-ups and awake, told me that he peed in them. Made me think that he was probably ready. And he was! :) 

Maybe he's going to be into older ladies like Daddy

Moses told me he wants to bring his pink seal to daycare so he can give it to Malik because she's a girl and pink is for girls. I asked him to describe her and he told me she has soft skin, and all kids have soft skin. I asked what color her hair is, and he said black. I asked what color skin she has, and he said, uhm, brown. And I asked if she was tall, and he said, "Yeah, she's SO tall, and she has a big head, and big legs! And her head is really really big." And I asked how old she was and if she was his friend, and he said, no, she's in the 5-year-olds class, and she is True's friend. Aiming high, huh, buddy? Going for the kindergarteners. Haha. 

Chapstick

So, against my better judgement, I bought Moses one of those round EOS chopsticks in blueberry flavor. I feel lucky that he hasn't eaten the whole thing yet, but he does, unfortunately, regularly call it his "lipstick." 

Well, the other day, after brushing his teeth, with his face all wet, he was trying to put this lip stuff on. I told him that he should dry off his face before he does that and it would be better (because, as you may know, lip stuff doesn't really go on when your lips are wet). 

After a very mini-tantrum, he dried his face off while I dried his lip stuff off on the back of my hand. 

He proceeded to put on his lip stuff once more, and in the middle of doing it, he turned to me and said, "Oh, I see what you mean." 

:) 

I was a bit sad

I was a bit sad the other day when I was getting the kids ready for bed. Moses came back out after I finished putting him to bed to tell me that during water day that day at daycare, the water was cold. And he was cold. And he was sitting out and almost crying because he wasn't happy. 

I think he was trying to show me empathy for how I was feeling bummed by telling me his story. He was trying to make me feel better, that kid. :) I told him that I was sorry he felt cold, and maybe next time it won't be so bad. And I made sure to also reassure him that Mommy was okay and that we were going to be okay. He's a good person, and his little story did make me feel better somehow. 

"Clouds"

Moses yelled, "Mommy, get the bug!!"

I leaned over to see what he was pointed at (on the ground), and I said, "No, buddy, it's not a big."

"What is it? Is it a cloud?"

"No, this is what you call a dust bunny."