Jun. 6, 2008 - Rambling On & Kid's Cute Comments
Today....wow, has it been a day, or should I say yesterday sure was some kind of day...it is 12:18 AM as I write this. I had to take Jonah to the doctor today, he has been fussy and running a low grade fever for about a week or more, and I thought it may have been an ear infection. Thank the Lord, his ears and throat were clear, so I guess it is just teething and possibly nursing problems. Today was very hot, like 99 degrees, even reaching 100 degrees at one point, terribly hot, and the air in my van just did not seem to be cooling, the kids were really whinny today, and it seemed they had to go to the bathroom every few minutes, not to mention my cycle decided to makes it grand entrance (oh how I have been enjoying not having that a part of my life), Jonah screamed for 30 minutes on the way home, and oh did I mention how hot my van was, probably at least 85 degress in the van the entire day. So anyway, my mom called a little bit a go to tell me what Noah (4.5) said to her today while I was in Target buying diapers...."Mimi, you know how long it takes my mama to go in a store? It takes as long as it does to drive to Texas!!" We live in NC.... he knows were NC and Texas are on the US map....so anyway my mom says something like "mmmm", Noah says "No Mimi you don't understand, when me and my daddy go to the store with mama it takes forever, she never comes back!" Poor little guy, but he was a great today, I was so proud of him...the girls on the other hand....well, let's just say I am tired.
Another funny thing said this week to Mimi by one of my kiddos....Sunday night we had a service of just singing, and this one guy from church was singing something and playing an electric guitar, Chloe (5, almost 6) says, "Mimi this church is rocking"...where in the world do these kids come up with such funny stuff....I just wish I was the one hearing all these funny things they say. I am sure I hear them all day everyday and over look them, I need to pay more attention and write down what they say, because these days will be gone all too soon, and I will be wishing I could have a few of these days back...
Zoey's potty training update...I can hardly even believe how easy she was to train....After day one we have had very few accidents, lots of days there are NO accidents at all, occasionally she will have one accident, but I think there has only been one day that had two accidents in the same day. I don't have to remind her go potty, she always tells me, and after about 4-5 days she was sleeping through naptime and the night with no diaper, no accidents!! How Wonderful, What a Blessing!!
Ok and a few weeks ago I promised to blog about Noah's water mess...well I am sure it will not be as good now as it would have been if I had blogged about it that day, but here it goes....I don't remember what was going on that day or what I was doing...oh yes, it was my treasured "Nap/Quiet time" and I was trying to get a few minutes of peace and quiet ... went into Noah's room and there was soaking wet water everywhere, he had took cups full of water into his room and poured them onto his tool bench, water all over his master piece he had build out of duplo blocks and water all in & over his prirate ship....oh my goodness I was not happy, I asked him why he had done this, his reply "I wanted it to be clean and shinney"...Lord knows I wanted to kill him, but it was absolutely amazing how calm I was, I could not even believe how calmly I cleaned up the mess....I had stayed up late the night before praying that I would have a meek and quiet spirit, and that the Lord would give me patience with my children, and I have to say that He answered that prayer in a big way, if it had happened the day before (before I prayed and cried out to God for this patience) I think I probably without a doubt would have have snapped on the poor little guy. When I got finished getting up all the water in his room I had a sopping wet thick bath towel, I probably could have wrung out at least a cup of water out of that towel, and I had another bath towel that was pretty wet. And the thing is, he was quiet as a mouse as he was doing this, usually I can hear him each and everytime he opens and closes his door, but not this day, and all this happened in about a 10 minute period of time. For the next few days after this episode it seemed like everytime I turned around he was into water again, making a mess, doing something like feeling up the sink on the play kitchen set with water...to wash the dishes. So anyway, that was the water mess, and my answered prayer...God showed me in a big way that day that He does answer my prayers, I could hear Him the entire time I was cleaning up all that water, "See I heard your prayers, see how you are reacting to this mess"...it was amazing (the mess and the answered prayer, lol).
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