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according to Lillie

Lillie was telling Gracie the story of Zaccheaus yesterday and when she got to the part of being in the tree she said, "And Jesus said, Zaccheaus you come down right now or I'm going to your house to give you a spanking!"
Ouch! I am glad that Jesus doesn't talk like that to me! Although I am sure that there were (and may still be) times where that just may be what I need to hear. I am also fairly sure I am not the only one. : )

Disclaimer: I do not advocate spanking your child if he or she climbs a tree. :)

Cabinets and Two Year olds

I was getting ready for dinner and looked over to see a massive pile of tupperware containers and no Gracie. I hollared for Gracie and she popped out of the cabinet. Now, don't think I lose my children on a regular basis :) I knew where she was, but was playing with her. I took this video. I also learned where all my tupperware disappears to - my trash can via my 2 year old. I looked over just in time to see her look at one container and then toss it in the trash. I guess she figured that we don't need that particular container.

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Hold me, Mommy!

Well, bedtime is still not easy. I have tweaked my routine a bit. Now after story and prayer, I will rock her for 10 minutes before laying her in bed. This is okay, but she usually spends the rocking time asking for me to rock her and not put her in bed. She is not sleeping good after she goes to sleep either. She wakes up almost every hour crying for mommy to hold her. She does end up with us in bed by 2 or 3 am because I have to have some sleep! I do want to thank all of you who have left encouraging comments and prayer for me. It is comforting to know that all of you have dealt with some part of this yourselves and survived it. I just don't remember it being this hard for me with Lillie.

Accidents

We had a pretty eventful evening last night. It started out very relaxing and quiet. We played outside after dinner, then went for a bike ride. Lillie is really loving to ride her bike and go on "family bike rides". This really is just Alex with Gracie on his bike, and Lillie riding hers because occasionally Lillie gets stuck and needs a little shove. She also stops if there is a car, which is good, but that may be in the middle of road so I walk with her. We are still working on the safety topics. Anyways, I took Gracie in to get her pajamas on and Alex was going to get Lillie who was pretending to be driving his truck. As I was washing Gracie off, Alex comes in carrying Lillie. She was trying to get away from him by jumping side to side in the truck and she fell out the passenger side door. She was crying, and scrapped up on her knees, hands, chin, and right cheek. Thankfully she was not hurt any worse, but she was pretty shaken by the fall as was Alex. He was upset with himself because he had left the door open, but it was just an accident. She seems fine this morning.

Lillie had went to her friend Josiah's house on Tuesday, and came home with a bee sting on her foot. I hadn't noticed in until a couple of days later when it was swollen and red. We have been watching it since the last time she was stung sent us to the doctor's for antibiotics.

Now on to Gracie! Last night was the worst by far for bedtime. She cried from the time I took her in her room saying, "Rock me, Mommy, don't leave me." I stuck to my plan on singing a couple of minutes, then telling her I had to change to my pj's and then come back. This usually makes her cry for a minute or two, then she will wait until I come back. However last night, she cried the whole time. To make matters worse I looked up something about crying it out and the article said - that it is not a good thing to do. I don't actually let her cry herself to sleep, but I leave for 10 minute increments and then come back to check on her. Anyways she did finally go to sleep.

On a cute note, the night before I had to call my Grandma and when I left Gracie the first time that is what I told her. Yesterday during the day Gracie put her Mickey Mouse down for a nap and she told in, "I back in minute, I call Mamaw Jackson." : )

Have a great weekend.

night number 2

I thought I would let you know that last night was not much easier on Gracie or me. Actually when we got home from church last night (which was past bedtime) and did our bedtime routine quickly, she got a death grip on me and cried, "Hold me, Mommy, hold me." This of course made it hard to lay her down, but I did only to come back ten minutes later to a stinky room and a full diaper. She is always full of surprises! : ) After she was changed and back to bed, it was just a matter of minutes and she was out. I know that as with Lillie, all will come together, but those nights listening to her cry for me is not very easy.

We went shoe shopping for Lillie. It was not what I would consisder a fun trip! She wanted purple, sparkly, light up, Princess Aurora shoes. There was no moving her decision. I did find a pink sparkly princess slip on shoes. She liked those until she saw a gaudy pink glittery pair. Thank goodness those were not in her size! We did end up with the pair I picked out, but she was not happy. Gracie also got a pair of the same, B1G1 half off!

Have a good day!