Author: Becky

For some encouragement to those of you who, like me, blog so we can share and remember the simple treasured moments of our family life . . . here’s Shannon, one of my top favorite bloggers (Rocks in My Dryer), blogging today at Parenting.com.

You have to go to the Parenting site and read her post!!  What a great encouragement, not to focus on the format or get discouraged by inconsistency! But just to jot down something! It is so true that this is not “one more thing to do” but it’s something relaxing to record the memories, and know they will be preserved as part of our family story!

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So! Now that I’m all inspired (and while I can still remember), here are a few little memories from this week . . .

• We are practicing charts. Mara is supposed to say, “‘T’ says ‘t’ turkey.” But instead she said, “‘T’ says ‘ch – chicken’.” 🙂 Well, I guess it would be hard for a two-year-old to distinguish a turkey from a chicken!
• Ironically, she never enunciates the “c” correctly. It always sounds like a “t.” So as we are looking at the A-Z book on the “C” page, she points to all the pictures: corn, cookies, cake, and says: “Torn. Tookies. And take!”
• On Saturday, Mara mentioned a friend from church. “Remember Mo, Mommy?”she asked. It always cracks me up when she says, ‘Remember  – – – -, Mommy?”
  

“Yes,” I said. “We haven’t had her over for awhile.”

“Can Mo come to our house and eat lunch?” she asked.

“I think that’s a good idea!”

So on Sunday at church, Mara saw her and said, “Hi, Mo! Can you come to our house for lunch?” I think that was the first time she asked anyone over. 🙂

Then today, I said, “I need to figure out what we’re having for lunch tomorrow when Mo comes over.”

Mara said, “Tortilla soup.” [That’s what we had the last time she came over–I was surprised Mara remembered because that was about 6 weeks ago!]

• We’ve had a lot of rain this week, and we found an earthworm on the sidewalk out back. I told Daniel to show it to Mara. If I’m raising my girl in the innercity, I want her to at least know what a worm looks like!  Not to stereotype . . . But Mara was majorly creeped out by the wriggly earthworm. Micah, on the other hand, was completely intrigued. And after holding it for a few seconds, he tried to put it in his mouth. We had to take it away.
• Micah continues to eat his weight in food daily. That’s probably an overstatement, but not a huge overstatement! Today, for instance, breakfast: bowl of oatmeal & 1/3 cup applesauce. Lunch 3 – 3.5 oz containers of baby food (squash, green beans, banana berry). Dinner 3 – 3.5 oz containers (green beans, sweet potatoes, and banana plum grape). That’s down from the other morning, when breakfast alone was: a bowl of oatmeal, 1/2 cup of applesauce, a handful of fresh blueberries, and an entire can (14.5 oz) of pears!! Is that not insane?!?! Mara never ate that much!! Is my child normal? or am I allowing him to over-eat?!

Well, those are tonight’s random memories, without regard to format, as Shannon recommended. 🙂