Life Is Good!

Last night, before I put Makaylee to bed, we poked our heads in the computer room to say goodnight to daddy. Of course she wanted Daddy to hold her and play with her for a minute. When I started to take her from him she started crying, "Want Daddy too!" So all three of us headed into her darkened bedroom. We hugged and said our prayers. We started singing Makaylee's goodnight song, and she wanted to sing it over and over and over. It was quite the noise with Terry singing low, me singing high, and Makaylee howling a few words here and there and completely off key. I think normally I would have been a little agitated, thinking of all the things I needed to do after Makaylee when to bed. But not last night, I closed my eyes and thought, there is no where in the world I would rather be right now, and I wish this moment would last forever!!

I went to lunch with my friend Sonya today. She has a little girl that is almost one. Makaylee loved playing with her and playing on the slides. Sonya is building a house one block away and I am so excited for them to move in!

Later today my sister-in-law Heather called and asked if I wanted to go to the Aquarium at the Gateway. (Of course I did!) We met her and her twin girls (14 months old) by the fountain at Gateway, and guess what? The Aquarium was moved to Sandy! We decided to stay at Gateway anyway and shop (and spend way too much money,) eat, and let the 3 girls play in the fountain. We stopped at the Chocolate Cottage and bought chocolate strawberries for us, and rice krispy treats for the girls. Makaylee got one look at my strawberry and decided suddenly that she didn't like rice crispy treats. She ate half of my strawberry! Heather and I got caught up and did plenty of "talking" about our husbands (who are brothers.) he he he

It really is fun to be the mother of a 2 year old. (Really!) Because Makaylee is so facinated about the small things, it makes me pay more attention to them. Who knew that walking to the park one block away would take 20 minutes, and that the journey would be more fun than the destination!

Elephants

For some reason Makaylee has a new obsession. Elephants. During the day time hours she loves them. She likes to watch movies with elephants and read books with pictures of elephants. But as soon as the sun sets, they are something to be feared.

It started one night as I was putting her to bed. She sat straight up in her crib and said "No Elephant! No like-a elephant." She was staring at the window with huge fearful eyes. I told her there was no elephants, but she didn't believe me. When I told her to show me the elephant she clung tight to me as I pulled her out of her crib. She pointed to her valance. It is a big puffy valance that is gathered in 3 places. I guess it could reasonably look like an elephant when it is dark at night. So I unhooked it and let the curtain fall flatly over the window. She let out an audible sigh of relief and said "Elephant all gone!"

I thought the problem was solved until we were in the car driving home in the dark tonight. I said "We're almost home." Makaylee replied "No elephants home, no like-a elephants." And sure enough, when I put her to bed I had to show her that the curtain was really just a curtain, and not an elephant at all! It reminds me of that trippy part in Dumbo where he gets drunk and has a freaky dream about colorful elephants that change sizes and sing scary songs. Maybe she had a trippy dream about elephants herself!