These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

Here are a few of my favorite moments with the kids over the last couple of days:

1.  My son is telling my husband all about the Veggietales event we went to.  He tells Anthony,  "Then we got to dance on bubble rats!"  The Silly Song (if you are familiar with the Veggietales DVDs, each has a silly song) was called "The Bubble Rap", so they let the kids dance on bubble wrap to the song.  But somehow my son thought it was "bubble rats".

2.  Anthony and my son were going through some of Anthony's things from when he was a kid that we had finally retrieved from his parents attic.  My son found a really big pencil amongst the stuff.  Then he says, "Look, you have big pencil like my big pencil.  And it has your name on it.  It says Daddy Miller!"

3.  Two of the items we were looking for amongst all the stuff in the attic we had yet to locate.  Anthony's mom later found it in another part of the attic.  When Anthony finally brought them home and my son discovered that we had found what we were looking for, he said "There it is!  I knew it was around here somewhere!".

4.  I introduced my daughter to the Baby Einstein DVDs we own.  I played the Baby Macdonald one for her, which is all about life on a farm.  Well, my daughter loves cows (plus its the only animal sound she knows how to make thus far) and there were plenty of cows in this DVD to keep her entertained.  She stood the entire time the DVD played smack-dab in front of the TV and mooed nonstop!


5.  When meeting the new pastor of our church and his wife, the pastor took an interest in the kids and really wanted them to feel involved in the conversation so he asked my son a few questions.  Upon asking if we had any pets, and then more specifically if we had any cats, my son replied, "We have Oreo.  We had Coco, but she died."  "Oh," said the pastor, "Do you have any dogs?"  My son said, "Well we used to have Charlie but then he had to go live with somebody else because he peed in the house."  That made the pastor laugh.  It's funny how differently we answer questions than kids do.  They think every detail is interesting and necessary where we adults are much more selective.  It was totally cute.  And that's not all my son talked about.  When the pastor asked where we lived, I gave the city.  But then my son butted in and said, "No, no" and then gave the city AND the state.  And then my son, after being asked something else, proceeded to talk for 5 minutes about the two ponds we have by us (The very small fish pond we have in our garden and the pond on the lot somewhat caddy corner to us.)  It was so very sweet.
Being a parent is more than stressful, but these two little ones make even the most frustrating days so worth it!

Sincerely,
The Mom