Bedtimes and Bellybuttons
Here's what this evening looked like: We watched an episode of The Waltons - where Olivia feels her identity is lost in her roles as Wife and Mom. She longs for the adventure and glamour of the Air Mail pilot whose plane landed in a nearby field. I'm sure I can relate to her on this front - often I feel my days are filled with the mundane. Sam did magic tricks for the kids, and they kept pleading with him to do it again so they could figure out the trick. The kids played Apples to Apples with Sam. We discussed what Caleb wants for his birthday breakfast tomorrow. The verdict: Cherry muffins. Andrew is so precocious and very cute these days. His words are stilted and carefully pronounced. Perhaps because of his language delays he has learned to speak in full, grammatically correct sentences - complete with appropriate expression. "I want to give you a hug Mommy!" "Will you read me another story Mommy?" He loves to be read to but more than...