and then she promptly dumped her tea all over the table and floor :)
11/22/09
11/20/09
11/19/09
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11/16/09
From the Mouths of Babes...
My children amaze, astound, and teach me every single day. For this I will be forever grateful.
Here are two examples. Tonight when getting bean's jammies on she very sweetly looked up at me and said, "Please, please, Mama, self?"
This was amazing to me on a few levels. One, she doesn't often speak in more than one word statements so that was fantastic. Two, she was able, without complex language skills, to get her point across quite clearly and three she did it in a very kind and polite manner. I mean, she's 18 months. She's in the full on temper tantrum twos for sure. She likes the words "NO" and "Mine" a great deal but here she was just asking very nicely if she could get her jammies on herself. Of course I obliged. Then it hit me that she has been witness to how we have been talking to Indy a lot lately about how she asks to do things. If I am helping her get her Pj's on and she doesn't want help she can often respond with drama, quite a bit of huffing and puffing and pouting but lately she's been remembering to just ask, politely if she could please do it on her own. Obviously this is wearing off on Bean. I couldn't be more proud of her or her sister for that matter but it was also a very good reminder for me that how we speak is often just as powerful if not more so than what we actually say.
The other great reminder I was given was Indy's response to what she wanted to write on a leaf for our thankfulness tree, "Thank you to God for putting me in the life that I am in".
Seriously wonderful, challenging, and made me nearly break down in tears of joy to think of how much my child loves her life. I know she's only 3 and my prayer is that this would be something she'll always be thankful for but even when or if she isn't I know that the lesson will not have been lost on me and I will strive to always be as thankful as I am right now for this specific life that God has given me, challenges and all, I wouldn't want any other.
365/200
I can't believe I am 200 days into a year of photos...and I can count on one hand, one finger even how many times I woke up not really wanting to take a picture...I thought for sure keeping consistency would be a lot harder for me but I'm so far (knock on wood) really enjoying it!
11/15/09
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