Starting Off the Year

This begins my 3rd year of blogging. I was thinking about how to blog, what to blog etc. and I decided that this is just my life journal. I'm not trying to be some sort of internet personality, it's just me and where I'm at right now in my life. Yup, you'll hear a whole bunch about my children this year because that is where I'm at!

Here goes!!

We had a lovely 3 day New Year's weekend at home. It is an extremely rare occasion that we have a 3 day weekend at home. We usually grab those extra days as excuses to visit Jeremy's parents. It was windy and freezing cold. The wind chill was -2 and -4 at night. On Saturday we lost electricity from 10:45-2:30pm. We were thankful for our propane insert. The heat goes straight upstairs. When nap time rolled around I was happy to hop under the covers.

So given that it was a holiday week and quite cold I spent lots of time playing and cuddling with Aliza and Josiah. One afternoon Aliza woke up a good 1.5 hours before Josiah did. She likes to watch NickJr.com these days so I sat on the couch (with a book) beside her. I had my arm around her and she was all cuddled into me. Out of the blue she looked up at me and said, "I love you Mommy. Mommy, you are the best Mommy in the world. And Mommy you are my best friend in the whole world." That was the best. I still smile thinking about it.

That morning Josiah woke up calling, "Mommy, Mommy!" I got up and brought him over to our bed and he proceeded to look at me and say Mommy and point to Jeremy and say Daddy. I've been hearing Mommy ever since. Josiah has generally bypassed saying the "easy" words. He said Grandma, umbrella, yellow, and backhoe before he said Mommy and I still can't get him to say Hi.

In the last couple weeks Aliza has developed the ability to tell stories. The facts are straight, but the time frame is way off. Things that happened yesterday she'll say happened last year. This ability has led to even more constant chatter and more complicated directing and demands than we had before. By suppertime last week I had had enough. I just wanted her to eat. I told Aliza to be quiet. She promptly said, "But Mommy if I be quiet my teeth will want to keep talking." Without missing a beat those teeth kept talking.