Sitting here on a cold windy night, JC is out watching a football game with a friend after attending his first jujitsu WITH gi in four years-- since Samantha's birth. The last two minutes of the final episode of Brothers & Sisters is on pause, partially because our tv turned green (which it does occasionally :-) and partially because I want to savor the moment--the time that my watching of this show has spanned. Little Elisabeth is swaddled snug in her crib in our room, Addie is koncked out like she typically does a few minutes after reading in her cozy top bunk and sweet Samantha is still awake.
Wonder what she thinks about for the hour plus time she is in bed after Addie falls asleep. It reminded me of some precious Sam isms that I don't want to forget.
"I love you to the moon and back, and... I love you"-- Sam 2 years old from her toddler bed.
"What are we going to do after nap?" There are two things that are delicious about this question posed at least daily by Samantha. First, despite iniitial attempts at correction months ago, Sam still likes to call sleep at night a nap :-) Secondly, she just loves to ask and have repeated what is in store for the week, tonight's answer was "Lynnie's, then home, Lynnie's then home, home, then dance class". She loves hearing the answer. And I must note, she's the most adorbale, natural dancer and performer.
Miss Addison... Such a precious age. Like her father, she loves and masters her hobbies. She is such a total sweetheart with the baby. Our family feels complete. We drove by our "old" house today and Addie and I reminisced--Addie fondly remembered making salad from our garden with Ella and Zoe , the sunlight coming through the vines on the side of the house and barbeques in our backyard. She said memories were starting to "fade"-- her own word. Perhaps, this is part of my spark to blog :-) Addie enjoyed her first sleep over with a friend (Chloe) from her new school last weekend. One of the pics is her packed bag.
And miss Elisabeth, I think a laugh is coming any day. She is smiling up a storm and cooing and totally adorbale. Her wide faced grin reminds me so much of Addie as a baby and her snuggles remind me of Sam. And her peaceful, car-seat-loving, low- maintenance-bottle eating ways remind me of just Ellie :-)
We have three very different, totally awesome girls. I can't wait to keep watching them unfold and doing our best to be the right amount of sunlight and water they each need.
