Hero

I promise that next time you respond to my “can you please do this task for me? “ with; “My tummy hurts…” I will believe you. And I will hand you a bucket and lay you down on the couch pdq. Because I really don’t like the sound of a stomach full of soup hitting the lino… especially the lino that I JUST finished washing….especially when your father is not home to rescue me from the Puke Villain like the knight in shining armor that he is.

I love it when we are sitting at the table after supper and you reach your little hand over and rub my shoulder blade or slip your hand in mine.

My heart melts when I see you snuggling with The Rugrat, reading him stories and making him laugh.

I am so proud of how you play with other kids, how you don’t get involved in tiffs and are always careful to be a peacemaker or distance yourself from troublesome situations.

Snow Day

Prairie Hero

This goofball

is my

knight in

shining armor

Superman Lives Here

Takin' Care of Business.

A kid's gotta do

what a kid's gotta do

to get food into that

tummyroo

Heh heh.

Prairie Girl

I love...
how you came up with and independently implemented the idea of a treasure box as incentive for The Rugrat every time he goes pee on the potty (despite the fact that he has been peeing on the potty since summer without any major shortfallings). I just love to see you teaching and helping him grow.

I smiled...
when you calmly responded to my perplexed, "I have no idea where the road is" (for the abundance of snow draping the road and fields) with, "It's right in front of you, Mommy. You're driving on it."

I was so excited...
when The Hero dropped the new peanut butter container on the floor and cracked the lid, you came up with the idea of retrieving the lid from the last container out of the recycling bin. You don't usually problem solve like this, so I was ECSTATIC with your suggestion!

I was amazed...
when I went to write "excretory" down in our vocabulary list and you said, "You don't need to do that, I know what that means." Alrighty then, more than happy to oblige on that count thankyouverymuch.