I just have to remember ...
The way Elliot gets so excited to use the potty and run/ jumps off the the bathroom.
She loves jumping with both feet off steps wherever she may be.
She often says thats so "tewt" (cute).
The past couple of days, after you ask her a question.. "um um um yeah", which is a contrast from her very articulate, "yesss".
She was so excited to get a pink piggy bank this morning from the "Easter Bunny" She was walking around with it loving it. and then it broke within a few hours. Rowdy gave her his old little piggy bank and during rest time she tucked it into bed and said, "You gotta take a nap if you want to go to Livee's house".. Shes so "tewt" :)
She will often tell me right after she has done something messy but she is usually trying to help. For example. She walks into the room with a spray bottle of Resolve for laundry and a rag and says," Mom I cleaned my room o tay?!" Yeah I am daily reminded of the little rascals..."Oh -Tay!"
She is kind of bossy sometimes and I see her wagging her finger and giving instructions especially to Ezra, but also to Rowdy. The other Day Ezra was a bit whiny so I was ignoring him a little at the park and he was whining/crying across the park. and she said, "Mom go get him! He is crying! Go get him!"
I was thinking we were pretty much out of the terrible twos which I think we are, but then in the past two days the mischievous side of her 2 year old self has re-emerged. She snuck into the pantry and ate a handful of sugar then relocated the whole sugar bucket to the middle of the kitchen floor and sat down around it and spilled a bunch. (sugar is lame to clean up) and she came out of my bathroom with mascara artistfully smeared up the side of her eyelid.
Elliot and Rowdy are in love with each other right now. She will run up and hug Rowdy when he comes home from kindergarten, and he genuinely hugs her back. It is so cute. They have just been close buds lately
Rowdy is Mr. Popular right now with Ezra and Elliot because he is all of the sudden very into helping with them and making them happy. He is very quick to share or trade or help them fix a problem. Ezra was throwing a fit the other night and Rowdy offered to trade him turns sitting on my lap. He has been doing selfless things like that all the time lately. It is very cool to see and a huge blessing for me as a mom. He will also invite the littles to play with him or make up games that make them laugh. One thing though that is grossss, his is eyelid flipping! He knows it grosses me out so he does it all the time ewww! And he is in love with cleaning lately too! He was begging me the other night to do a "power half hour." So we did and then the next night he really wanted to do one again but our house wasn't that dirty so I suggested a power 10 min, and he was very upset....probably because it didn't rhyme. He is also reading up a storm. He is very motivated right now by a little speed to read competition at school. but he is really surprising Cody and I with his skills.
Ezra is totally into puzzles right now. He always wants to do "the puzzle with the cars that light up". He is always asking one of us if we want to help him...even thought he could probably do it with his eyes closed. He is often referred to as the Lone wolf by my Dad. He is very cool with just playing with toys by himself for a long time. So a few friends have invited him over for "play dates" and he hasn't really played with them. We have a little girl down the street we carpool with she told me "Ezra didn't even play with me today." He just sat on their floor and played hungry hungry hippos for almost an hour. But when he gets in a talking mood! He also has been loving on Rowdy. They love to watch Rescue bots, and make up games in the toy room. He is cute with Elliot. He mostly tries to steer her in the right direction. & Ezra loves to help in the kitchen.
Cody got called into work early this morning...Easter morning which was kind of lame but we did get to have a crazy fun day with him yesterday. We did an Easter Egg hunt and picnic yesterday at a new park we found in Flower Mound. A combination of me not wanting to go to the store and wanting to eat better led to filling the Easter Eggs with crasins and coins and raisins and grapes. and I did have a few Reese Pb balls but the kids loved the mostly candy free! And today was pretty much candy free they each got one candy egg, and the rest were hard boiled. It felt good. I think
I would've been a little disappointed and all the candy free if my mom hadn't kept sneaking me her secret chocolate stash of Easter candy last week :) We went to Flower Mound because Cody had groupon stuff for a theatre on Lewisville. We were still pretty early for the show so he wanted to take Ezra to ride these mini go karts. Ezra was so cute! Rowdy got to ride to and they both had a blast. Ezra was so excited about his little "points card" he called it a drivers licence. Elliot...got a slushy. Then we went to watch the Croods and it was the studio movie grill so we ate while we watched it then came home to dye Easter Eggs. Whew.
Easter was very lovely today. The only thing that could've made it better was Cody being here. My sweet VT's dropped off stuff to do the little resurrection rolls. The kids loved that and we read Easter story books while they cooked. It was a fun little way to teach them. Later we went to the Carmacks for a yummalicious family dinner and a sweet little Mormon Message. It was really nice. I really should be sleeping or finishing up my seminary lesson but I feel like these moments are so fleeting. I've just had to get some of this down. The gratitude I feel in my
heart for this sweet family... and all of my family is deep. Thank goodness for our Savior.
"I know that my Redeemer lives. What comfort this sweet sentence gives."
Happy Easter
