Pieces of Personality
We have a holly tree just outside our front door. Evan has quite the romance going with it. He waited all Fall for its berries to turn red and checked out his bedroom window every morning, sometimes more than once a day. When they finally turned red, which did happen overnight, he had to call Honey and report the big news. Ever since they've turned red he picks one and takes it in the car with him whenever we leave the house. The other day he was sitting in his carseat, happily holding his berry, when, for the 500th time this month, he dropped it on the floor and asked me to please get it for him.
"I'm driving right now, but when I get out of the car, I'll get it."
"Okay, but I'm so tired of this!"
Umm....ME TOO.
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Shaun came home early to work from our house the other day, so since Madalyn was napping, I left with Evan for a quick run to the store. His animal cracker radar went off and he started begging for some as soon as we neared the aisle.
"Not this time."
"No, I need some."
"Not this time."
"Okay, mommy...animal crackers or nothing."
"Ummm....NOTHING! (How'd that work out for you?)"
A slow smile creeps on his face, "You're funny, mommy!"
"No, you're funny!"
"No, you're funny."
"No, you are- you're silly."
"Well... you're bossy!"
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Overheard during mealtime:
1) "You're acting horrible, Madalyn!" (Slams fist on table at 'horrible.')
2) "If you squeeze a brownie you get chocolate pudding."
3) "It's a beautiful day, Madalyn!"
4) Madalyn: Again, again, again!
Evan: No, I'm tired.
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Other frequent one-liners include Madalyn frequently telling us, "I'm happy," (probably because her daddy frequently asks her this when she's in a merry mood, and so she's started telling us before we ask,) and then Evan telling us in anticipation of this event or that, "And I am so excited."
Not-so-frequent one-liners would include Madalyn running in our room and saying to me, "do you know what happened?" I looked at Shaun and asked if he heard her, so she ran over to him and said it again. We were laughing in disbelief at how clear she was saying it, how confident, so she proudly came and asked me again. Finally I said, "what happened?" She smiled blankly, like 'after all this showing off I totally forgot what I was going to tell you.' Then ran out of the room. Another one-liner floated out to us from the bathroom, where the kids were playing (always a great place to let the kids play,) and that was the voice of Evan saying, "No, don't brush your hair. You're too little."
The other recent pleasure we've had is listening to Madalyn sing. She invents songs that make little to no sense, but man, are they beautiful! After Shaun left this morning she began to sing about him, with lots of daddy's and lots of babble in between.
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So there are all the wonderful things that have piled up in my heart this week. Now in writing. Never to be forgotten or fade away; a thought I just can't bear.
