Pitter patter

You know when you have heard a song over and over and you think you know what the lyrics are, but when you find out the real lyrics you are like "OH! That makes so much more sense!"

Just me?  Oh, then never mind!

This kind of just happened to me.  I have always loved the Alan Jackson song "Remember When."  It is about a couple looking back at their life and there was one part that I thought said:

"Remember when the sound of little feet wasn't music and we danced from week to week."

When Jason was first walking I would listen to this song and say WHAT?  Why wouldn't little feet be music?  It is so cute to hear them pitter pattering down the hall.  We are experiencing that again with Elizabeth.  Can anyone tell me a cuter sound than hearing a toddler wander down the hall with their bare feet pit patting?  It's adorable! 

You want to know what isn't adorable?  The pit patting of three year old feet at 5 in the morning!  I finally got what I thought Alan was talking about!  When that little head peeks over my side (never his father's side) of the bed.  I ask if it is 6 o'clock yet and he knows he will be brought back to bed. 

While I was getting ready to write this post I looked up the lyrics to be sure I had them correct and realized he is actually saying:

"Remember when the sound of little feet
Was the music we danced to week to week"


Oh well!  Those little feet would still sound way better if I didn't hear them until 6 or maybe even 6:30 in the morning!

Where are we going to get a giant panda?

I hope you all had an enjoyable father's day weekend.  I think we made it fun for Jeff.  We made sure the house was sparkling clean for him when he came home Friday night.  Normally the outdoor chores are Jeff's responsibility so on Saturday morning when the kids got up nice and early (because they haven't learned that weekends are for sleeping in) I took them out back to work on the very fast growing bamboo.  Later that afternoon we went to Daddy's toy store, aka Lowe's, and he got to pick out a new tool.  On Sunday we gave him a card with the kids footprints on it and showed him the video we made for him.

Saturday morning while I was battling with the bamboo, Jason was helping me bag all the pieces and we got to talking about how giant pandas eat mostly bamboo.  This is a factoid he learned from a game on his LeapPad Explorer.  He loves to inform us about the animals he is learning about.  He was talking about how we need to find a giant panda to eat all this bamboo that we were bagging (and there was a LOT!)  I asked him where we would find a panda and after suggesting the bamboo forest where pandas live, or a zoo, he settled on climbing into his Ipad (what he calls his LeapPad) and get one from there.  I adore hearing what he imagines and thinks about!

Baby girl isn't a baby anymore!

Oh my goodness, Elizabeth is getting so big!  She just figured out how to walk and the next thing I knew she is toddling all around the house!  I think she is just adorable wondering here and there, but you can be the judge.

She is also so much better at communication than Jason was at this age.  In the morning as soon as she sees Jeff, even before he has seen her, she starts waving and says "hi" and is always telling us "up."  Her "bye, bye" with a wave will melt your heart.  She will also answer yes or no questions with shaking her head or nodding it and adding a "ya."  I know she will have her own challenges, but it makes me happy that Elizabeth doesn't have a problem communicating.

Elizabeth does know her own mind also.  If you try to walk her somewhere she doesn't want to go, she will stop in her tracks and pull against you.  Yesterday was pretty warm but at 2 in the afternoon a little girl was banging at the back door wanting to go out and play.  She would not be detered, so outside we went.  Elizabeth knows what she wants!