Thank you for the play, mommy

You know how you are constantly telling your child to say please and thank you, hoping that one day it will stick?  Today there was proof that it stuck.  The girls and I went to a park today and I let Aubrie run wild.  I gave her the five minute warning that we will be leaving and that helps with the melt down when it is time to go.  Finally, I said "ok, time to go!" and which I got the respond "OHHHHH NOOOO!" and she covered her face with both hands.  But then she followed me and we started walking out to the car.  On the way she asked for her juice and I handed it to her and said, "what do you say?" and she said "thank you mommy."

And then it happened.  She grabbed my leg and stopped me from walking and hugged it.  She looked up at me and said "thank you for the play, mommy" and squeezed it really hard. 

(heart melting)

Ahh.  It stuck.  It stuck and she just won herself a trip to the park for a whole week!  ;)

We had a pretty good day today.  I got some laundry done, went and looked at carpet, and we found out that the house we made a bid on signed and accepted our contract and we will have an inspection on Monday.  It is so exciting and my head is just spinning!  Hopefully God will continue to align all these events and guide us through this. 

The girls had fun playing today.  Emilie is at a point that i need to just put some pants on her to protect her knees and let her crawl around outside.  She's just DYING to go play with big sister. 

This morning big sister pushed Emilie (who gargled her water and spat it down her shirt) around in her car...

 And then it ended the way I thought it would....

 without crying.  So what do we do now?  Climb the stairs!

I'm thinking about what to do with big sister.  When kids turn 3, a whole window of opportunities open for activities.  She can start doing stuff like dance, music, soccer, swimming.  All kinds of things.  And right now I think she needs SOMETHING to release her energy.  Any suggestions or ideas?  Look at this kid...

 She was spinning in circles and she was dizzy...

 Then she wanted a picture taken with Petey...

But wouldn't sit still long enough and thought it was funny.  She also likes to hurry and come see the picture on the back of the camera to see what she looks like. 

She keeps me busy!  School starts for her in 18 days!!  Look out Nashville, I'll be on the loose!

Love to all!

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