Everyday Us

I was thinking over the last few weeks that while I do my best to write on the blog every week and feel I do a pretty good job recording the activities and events of our life, what I seem to miss out on is the cute/silly/smart things that the kids do and say everyday that I am sure I will forget over time.  This week nothing major happened and I started wondering this morning what I was going to blog about and then it occurred to me write about some of those little things that normally get passed by.  So with out further ado, here they are:

Merrick- I have been commenting lately how Merrick is like one of those HUGE dogs that thinks they are a lap dog.  He is SO tall, towering over everyone his age, but he is my little snuggle buddy.  He always wants to climb on me, sit on my lap, and cuddle.  He is also super sweet with his sister.  Just today at church he would pull something out of my bag to look at, CC would scream "Bubba" (Brother) and rip it out of his hands, he would just let her and move on to something else.  He also loves to draw her pictures of doggies lately (something she is always asking for).  The only time I ever have to get after him about how he is interacting with his sister is when he is over cuddly/smothery which she tends not to love.  On a side note, I just had to take an hour break from working on the blog because he was trying to give her hugs and accidentally pulled them both off the couch, injuring them both.  Sometimes he loves her a bit too much.

The other thing that I want to mention about Merrick is his curiosity.  You can't just tell him a story because he will have a million follow-up questions about tiny details (what color of car where the people driving? what was the weather like?, etc.).  I think the best way to describe it is that he has this ability to look at things from different angles and I think that is unique for his age.  A few weeks ago he had gotten a new toy and we needed to pick up some "C" batteries for it and I had told him I would get him batteries when I went to the store the next day.  Before going to the store, Jeremy and I finished the process of buying his car.  When I told Merrick about the new car he asked me how much it cost.  I told him a lot, but he kept pressing me for the details.  Eventually we got down to the heart of the matter when he asked me if we would still have enough money left over to buy him batteries.

One other note on this subject, he loves animals and loves to learn facts about them.  Last week when we went to the library he insisted on getting a non-fiction book about wombats and he is already planning on getting one on platypuses on our next visit.

Carrigan- In many ways Carrigan is the exact opposite of Merrick.  She is not easy going, on the contrary she usually know what she wants and how she wants it.  She wants to eat her banana but only if the peel is still on it and if it sits out too long she deems it an "ucky nana".    Sometimes this is challenging, but in other ways it is easier because you never have to guess what she wants of how she feels about things.

She has become such a talker, almost like my little parrot, repeating everything I say.  Every night/nap time I sing her "You are my Sunshine" on repeat.  She has started singing along singing "sunshine away" over and over while I sing.  The other day I was counting to see how fast Merrick could do something.  I got to seven and stopped, only to hear her say "eight".  Her increased vocabulary is also helping with with the stubbornness mentioned above, she is learning to say "please" and "sorry".  I have to say my favorite things she says these days are "hold you mommy" and "love you"....I hear those a lot lately.

The last thing I want to mention about CC is she really likes routine and consistency.  If you look let her look at pictures on your phone while you change her diaper, you must do that every time from then on.  If you draw her a picture of a doggy while you are coloring, you must do that every time you color (see above about Merrick drawing her doggy pictures).  My mom is still visiting and few weeks ago my mom showed Carrigan a video on her phone of my niece Isabel (Bay-bel as she is most often called).  CC quickly began referring to it as the "Bay-bel show" and anytime now she see my mom's phone will begin asking for the "Bay-bel show".

Well this post may have been boring or uninteresting to you, but for me it is the little things that my kids do that makes me love them the most.  I am really grateful to put just a few of them down before they are gone from my memory forever.