The Joys of Motherhood

I love being a Mom to Madilyn, Emma and Cody!! They teach me more than I could ever teach them. They bring me so much Joy. They give me purpose.

Cody has been so funny lately. Today he was acting like the wicked witch from the wizard of oz. He got the broom and started quoting lines from the movie and then he told me to say one. So I turned on my most witchy cackley voice and said " I'll get you my little pretty, and your little dog too. hahhahaWAhahaha" his eyebrows did this funny thing and then he got mad at me and said "you scared me mom!!" He looked at me and said in his most witchy voice "I'll get you my wittle Mom and your wittle 'Hemma' too" he started walking away and then turns and says "and your wittle Madi" Oh I could've died laughing......you had to be there. I can't believe how smart he is and how well he talks. He's quite the conversationalist.

Emma is her usual doll self. She is adored by all. She is quite popular at preschool. She has been proposed to by 2 different boys and kissed on the hand by another. There are only 2 other girls in her class so you can imagine how the boys fight over her. Today she said "It's starting with T.J. now" I said "what is?" she said "He's been eating his snack by me, that's always how it starts...he's going to ask me to marry him like the other boys did.....that's how it started with them." Boys go crazy over her!! She has a couple of boys at church that like her too. I know this is a sign of things to come. On Sunday her primary teacher told me she is quite opionated and was sharing a lot in class. Her teacher gave her a toy from a happy meal that sings "you've got to move it, MOVE IT" and I was told she was dancing to it. When we got home I asked her to show me how she was dancing and it was so funny....a little prvocative, I might add. She cracks me up! also, I love to watch her and Cody play. Emma teaches him like Madi teaches her. It's so cute.

Madilyn continues to excell in school. She is such a good student, and the smartest. She amazes me. She's finally found someone she considers a good friend so she seems more excited to go to school. She has a crush on these brothers at church, they are 10 and 13. She says "when I look at them I see equal signs in my eyes" I guess that means she likes them the same. It hasn't always been that way. It started with the older one and then he shaved his head and she couldn't handle it so she started liking his brother, THEN when his hair started growing back she decided to like him again....TOO so she likes them both!! SHHHH don't tell her I told you.

Just wanted to share a quick little personal story. Let me start by saying, I'm always paranoid that I won't wake up to my kids needful cry in the night so I always pray that the Holy Ghost will wake me if one of my kids need me. I am comforted in knowing that these prayers are heard even for the simplest things. Sometimes I'll wake up right before I am needed. Sometimes I wake up to find a child crying so quietly and afraid. Sometimes I awake and go check on my child and arrive just in time to catch them as they are falling out of bed. Some call it Mother's Intuition I call divine intervention. Most the time it is someting very simple that many would suggest a coincidence but I feel differently, especially after my wake up call last week. Madi was going to bed and I noticed she had her "Dog chain" necklace on. I asked her to take it off and i watched her do so. She was having a bad night so Ryan put her in our bed and ended up sleeping in Madi's bed. Well during the night for no apparent reason I woke up to myself reaching over to her. I remember not being "all there" I reached to push her hair out of her face and during this I noticed that she had something wrapped around her neck....TIGHT!! I sat up, sat her up and sure enough it was her dog tag necklace, chain whatever you want to call it. How could this be?? I had watched her take it off earlier.....sneaky!! You know how those chains are. They have those little balls that lock into knots. I was sickened by the thought of what could have happened. Thank heavens I woke up.