I have to mention what has become the BEST part of my morning. Before letting you in on my sweet pleasure let me preface by telling you about Will when he was a baby. I know I have mentioned it before but our Will had a cry that would make fingernails on a chalk board sound like a beautiful melody. It was so ear piercing that at 4 days old we had already moved him to his crib in his very own room. Now, before you moms out there start criticize me, let me say I always made sure he was feed and changed before putting him in his room to scream it out. All that to say I didn't get the cuddle time with him that I had enjoyed with Alaina and now enjoy with Teagan. There wasn't a time that I was able to nap with him as a newborn or pull him into our bed just to snuggle. By the time he had grown out of his screeching scream/cry he had gotten so used to sleeping on his own that he didn't want to cuddle or nap with me at all. Much to my dismay my sweet boy was a self soother who didn't like to snuggle with mommy to go to sleep.
Now let me get to the reason for this blog, which at this point you may have guessed. For the last 2-3 weeks, my Will has woken up between 6-7 AM and come into our room, crawled up into bed with me and snuggled with me until it was time to get up. Let me say, I knew I had to break the habit of letting our kids sleep with us a while back when Alaina would come into our room in the middle of the night to sleep with us. After weeks and months of sharing a bed with a squirmy toddler I decided I needed to get up and put her back to bed. But I have to admit my little boy coming in for an early morning cuddle has become the BEST part of my morning! Yes, I know it will be a habit I will need to break in a few weeks but for now I am just going to enjoy it!!
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Never Been Prouder as a Mom
As a mom there are many times I have been proud of my kids, but there are also those days I am not so proud of them. Lately, my two oldest have been fighting alot and not getting along. I have been chalking it up to the fact that they are 4 and 2 years old, but it has been very discouraging! There have been glimpses of hope when they have been playing great and things seem to be normal again. Today there were two VERY bright glimpses. Let me start with the first one. We were driving home from Bible study and I hear Alaina talking to Will in a very serious voice. So I turned down the music to listen in on their conversation. I also moved the mirror so I could see her as well. As I watched her sincere face this is what I heard her sweet voice say to her brother.
"Will, don't you know that God made us?" "We were babies and now we are big kids and a long time from now we will go to Heaven to be with God and Jesus!" She repeated things of this nature a few times until Will interrupted and asked her what was on his mind.
"How will we get to Heaven Alaina?" Will asked a little worried.
She answered very confidently, "Jesus is mighty! He has power in His hands, He will take us there!"
I must admit while hearing this not only was my face beaming with a smile, but my eyes were filled with tears. The smile was there because our little Alaina was professing a faith in Jesus that she is just learning about, but she already realizes that she wants to share it. The tears filled my eyes because I realized that I myself so often forget to share my faith with others with my words. But yet here my four year old was sharing what she knew about Jesus to her two year old brother. What a blessing it was to witness this conversation!
My husband recounted this second glimpse of the sweet relationship between a sister and brother. Later in the day during dinner Aaron heard Alaina talking to Will. She was encouraging him to use the potty like her because she is a big girl and he is a big boy now. She told him that if he used the potty he would get m+m's and that mommy and daddy would be so proud of him. As soon as dinner was over Will hopped down from the table and went straight to the bathroom and used the potty. This was the first time he had done that on his own. And All it took was a little "pep" talk from his big sister.
So like the title of this post: I have never been prouder as a mom! I love my kids and pray that God will always use them to positively influence each other.
"Will, don't you know that God made us?" "We were babies and now we are big kids and a long time from now we will go to Heaven to be with God and Jesus!" She repeated things of this nature a few times until Will interrupted and asked her what was on his mind.
"How will we get to Heaven Alaina?" Will asked a little worried.
She answered very confidently, "Jesus is mighty! He has power in His hands, He will take us there!"
I must admit while hearing this not only was my face beaming with a smile, but my eyes were filled with tears. The smile was there because our little Alaina was professing a faith in Jesus that she is just learning about, but she already realizes that she wants to share it. The tears filled my eyes because I realized that I myself so often forget to share my faith with others with my words. But yet here my four year old was sharing what she knew about Jesus to her two year old brother. What a blessing it was to witness this conversation!
My husband recounted this second glimpse of the sweet relationship between a sister and brother. Later in the day during dinner Aaron heard Alaina talking to Will. She was encouraging him to use the potty like her because she is a big girl and he is a big boy now. She told him that if he used the potty he would get m+m's and that mommy and daddy would be so proud of him. As soon as dinner was over Will hopped down from the table and went straight to the bathroom and used the potty. This was the first time he had done that on his own. And All it took was a little "pep" talk from his big sister.
So like the title of this post: I have never been prouder as a mom! I love my kids and pray that God will always use them to positively influence each other.
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