“Lexi, a dress you wear at night is called a night. gooowwn. OK?”
Never thought about exactly like that, but ok.
Extraordinary Faith for Everyday Life
“Lexi, a dress you wear at night is called a night. gooowwn. OK?”
Never thought about exactly like that, but ok.
Giving you a chance to skip a talk that involves poo…if you’re up for it, click for the extended version.
I’m sure this will affect quite a few things in the coming weeks and months so I’m reporting now my mom had a hysterectomy today. I’m not really sure what to expect. They don’t really go over this type of thing in s-e-x ed in middle school. From my understanding of it, we may see some emotional effects–as if she didn’t already have enough. Am I clueless on this process?? I know her physical recoup is less than 2 weeks so that is good news.
Dad called me this morning on the way back from taking the kids to school and said everything had gone fine. We are headed up there when I’m done working to see her.
This morning I was ironing Emma’s skirt before school and I remembered Mom’s surgery. The girls were in the kitchen with me so I grabbed their hands and said, let’s pray real quick for Grandma’s surgery. I said a quick two sentence prayer for Mom and the doctors and Emma says with a smirk/giggle, “We don’t pray now, we pray at night.” I corrected and said, “No, you can pray anytime. God likes it when you pray.” Made me think twice about what I’ve taught her about prayer. The last thing I want it to be is a task on her to-do list at night.
I do know her Sunday School class prays every week and several times she has told us she asked for prayer when one of us was sick or when Scott was going out of town so I know she understands it. I just hope I can relay the verse:
Ephesians 6:18 Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere.
OK, so Scott was back at work today. The day actually went pretty well. The girls actually seem easier to get ready this year than last so the mornings aren’t that rough. Plus I’ve been setting clothes out the night before to make it even easier. We brought S home from school with us so they played the entire afternoon together in the playroom. And have I mentioned how much I like my office in the sunroom and the toys in Lexi’s room? They play in there ALL the time. And today I went in there and Lexi literally said, “Get out of here!” Two seems a little early to be dissing Mommy but I guess that’s the way kids are these days (please catch the sarcasm).
When SIL came to pick up S, the girls wanted to go home with her so they spent the afternoon/evening over at their house. In fact, Lexi was asleep for the night when she brought them home.
Scott and I went to the gym when I quit working and can I just say I’m kind of over the gym. It’s been almost two years that I’ve been working hard in the gym, only for the past 6 weeks or so when I actually lost weight and kept it off and now when I see those calories on the elliptical, I just don’t care about them as much and there’s no motivation…there’s no “Just 100 more calories and I’ll work off that cookie I ate after lunch”. I’ve lost the weight I’ve wanted and I really want to keep up with it because I know my cholesterol is still a little high but there’s no “You just worked off 5 HDL points! Congratulations, keep going for 10 more minutes” option. Anyway, we’re seriously considering stopping the membership at least until January when they have the free signups again. I know everything is going to get busy during the holidays anyway and it’s almost $70 a month. Very much one of our luxury bills we could do without.
So anyway, Scott and I stopped at Subway on the way home where I then spent almost this whole evening either checking email, myspace, watching crappy reality shows or blogging about them. I wish I had something more interesting to say, but I think this will do it for now. The clock just turned midnight so I think this Cinderella has to go!
I have found it’s difficult to keep up with your child’s learning progress after they hit the major milestones. For awhile there, it was one after the other but now Emma is almost five and not so much to report on. The questions are endless and we have conversations more like this one today:
E: Can S go to the Y with us?
Me: No, she doesn’t belong to the Y.
E (very confused): She doesn’t belong??
Me: Right. You have to pay to go to the Y. Her mommy and daddy don’t pay to go but me and Daddy do.
E (thoughtfully): Ohh…that’s what it means to belong?
Me: Yes, we are members of the Y. We pay them money to go and they give us a code so we can go exercise. Have you ever seen my type in my code?
E: No. Well, how do you pay? Does the bank pay?
Me: Yes, the bank pays them every month for me so we can be members.
E: Oh.
Things are really clicking with her. We’re not getting away with too much anymore. It used to be I could come up with lame excuses to not do things and get away with it but not so much anymore. Silly things like, “Can we go to the park?” I answer “No, it rained today.” At some point in her life she would have been like ok. But now it’s like, “Well, it rained earlier but the sun is out now and it’s probably dry.” Stuff like that. She made me and Scott laugh yesterday after church. I asked her what she learned about in Sunday School. She has excellent teachers that really work on a story every week but I wasn’t expecting this.
Me: What’d you learn about in Sunday School?
E: Paul
Me (sort of shocked–that’s no Noah’s Ark story): Really? What did you learn about Paul?
E: He wrote a letter to the church.
Me (that made me giggle, but I thought I’d press on): Do you remember what church? Was it Corinth?
E (shrugging her shoulders): I don’t know, just a church.
Whew, I thought she was going to surpass me in Bible knowledge by age 5 if she had answered that question.
And while I’m at it, I’ll give a few more “Emma updates”. She continues to improve on her writing. We haven’t worked much on her reading lately although she was asking to last night…note to self–need to do that tonight. She is STILL having potty issues. She has been out of her medicine now for a few weeks and I’ve been a bad mommy and not refilled it. I honestly don’t think she needs it. I think she knows when to go, just will not do it. If we catch her, we make her go but otherwise, she still uses pull-ups for #2. I KNOW she’s almost 5. Trust me. I plan to talk to the dr about it again at her checkup. She is the most tender-hearted child I’ve ever met. She gives up toys for her sister in a heartbeat and always makes sure everyone has what they need. She’s concerned about where people are and what they’re doing and of course why. She has a fabulous imagination, most often playing with small people/animals and making them interact. She is still loving computer games and does everything by herself. She even got Scott to spell noggin so she could go to noggin.com by herself since it wasn’t in the favorites yesterday. She’s still quite the cuddler. She always wants someone near her. Especially at bed time. Lately she has requested I sing “Agnus Dei” when she goes to sleep and likes to “just talk” before she goes to sleep. She’s definitely a people person when you get to know her but is still extremely shy around strangers. She reminds me of me and my dad a lot in that regard. Not sure what else to report on, as I said, the milestones are harder to quantify and report on. She’s my big girl and I’m still trying to prepare myself for her being 5 in a few months.
I’ve been paying attention to how Southern my little girls and even husband talk. Here are a few that I can recall. I’ve tried to re-spell how they say it.
carntubull – comfortable. As in, “I can’t get carntubull”
stale – still. As in, “Be stale!”
dihent – didn’t. As in, “I dihent do it!”
wahent – wasn’t. As in, “It wahent me!”
Our local paper printed an article on the front page about the pageant. And they mentioned my little Lexi!
Some basked in the glory of the event, while others were a bit shy. Soon to be crowned Wee Miss Tiny Tot Tega Cay, Lexi xxx, twirled with gusto and waved, her adorably infectious smile wowing the crowd.
Awwww