With the birth of my 3rd child being a week away and while I was sitting in the hot shower clearing my stuffy nose, I was reflecting on why I love my family. I decided I should record the reasons, you know so I can look back and read it when I want to strangle them :-)
I love finding Barbies hanging from the anchor cord of a toy pirate ship
I love finding Spiderman and the Hulk in the Barbie house (this means they are playing together)
I love that Aly is 3 and can quote the entire Tinkerbell movie word for word
I love that Cade runs around the house singing "Who am I" by Casting Crowns (off key) and to show he doesn't discriminate the next time he'll be singing Jimmy Eat World
I love that Aly says "waga" (water) and "tomada" (tomorrow)
I love that the little girl that the doctors weren't sure would have regular mental development and went through speech therapy starts her sentences with "Actually" and "I suppose"
I love that Cade said he would paint a wall of his room pink so the baby could share with him instead of Aly
I love hearing footsteps early in the morning and getting up to find Aly in Cade's room playing with his toys while he's still sleeping.
I love that Cade is starting to read and write and he leaves taped up notes all over the house
I love that his notes are spelled phonetically and it really takes concentration to figure them out sometimes
I love that Cade can throw a huge fit, say we're mean and slam his door then 5 minutes later come back and ask his daddy to lay down with him. (okay that is frustrating too)
I love that when I lay down with Aly and she thinks I'm asleep she will put her arm as far around me as she can and kiss my shoulder.
I can't leave Scotty out so:
I love that he won't deny me anything
I love that he goes to work everyday to provide for his family
I love that his wife and kids come before anything else
I love that he's so predictable
I love that he spends so much time with his kids
I love that he has date night with Aly every week
I love that Cade is his best friend
I love that he cries
I love that I know the next move he's going to make before he makes it and when I call him on it he laughs
I love that he devotes so much time to Cade and they do so many fun things together
I love that when we found out we were having another baby he was thrilled from day 1, even though it took me months to be okay with it.
I love that we have no secrets.
I love that he always puts me first in anything.
Finally, I love that in the time it took me to write this every person in my house managed to frustrate me. So, I think I need to go back to the top and read it again, just to remind myself of what I love about them!
