Celia the Master

As you can see, Celia definately LOVES Wuzzy. Celia also LOVES being in charge. These things go very well together. Also, in case you were wondering, that is green marker on her face. Things happen.

Yogurt

Because it's not a good start to your day without poison control

Yep. Before 9am this morning, Celia ate a half a travel tube of Colgate Total toothpaste. Miss S forgot to put the cap back on (she gets a kick out of travel sizes), and I found Celia clutching the tube. She looked a me, belched a HUGE minty burp, and I called the now memorized poison control number. Thankfully she's okay, but little miss will be extra careful to keep the toothpaste where it belongs. At least she will have fresh breath all day!

My favorite conversation about death

As you all know, my grandmother has cancer. We initally thought it was stage 2, but now know it is stage 4 and we have a very limited time left with her. As it has progressed, my girls are becoming more aware of it. Since my dad died in April, Sophia has developed what I consider a very healthy view on death. We are not religous, but I am very very spiritual, and have taught the girls that we have souls and that when our bodies die, they go back home to where they were before we were born. So on Wednesday, Maia asked what I was going to do while she was in school. I told her I was visiting my grandma, and here is the best conversation ever about death:

Maia: Why is she dying?
Me: Because she has cancer, and it is something that grows inside a body, and eventually the body stops working.
Maia: Then her soul flys away!
Me: Exactly.
Maia: *pause* Momma, how does a soul fly?
Me: I don't know (really reaching for something here) probally like a hot air balloon.
Maia: *another pause* No, I don't think so. I think they fly like witches. You know, with brooms.


She proceeds to eat her breakfast and that settled it in her little 3 year old mind. I love this age. It's so perfect, pure and simple! Her acceptance, and Sophia's as well, have given me such a renewed perspective on this very natural order in life, and such appriciation for what we have right now. That conversation will be with me for ever, until it's time for me to fly away on my broomstick.

Oh Joy!

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Now all I need is an article that shortness=awesomeness and I'll be a happy gal!

Sweetness of Fall

Well, there is the picture I promised of Miss C on the table. She was hopping up and down, so the camera caught her on a landing there. We've been really enjoying the start of fall. School routines are down, the fall dance and gymnastics classes have started, and we are starting to do the fun things that the season offers. This weekend we went apple picking at Anderson Orchard in Mooresville. It's a huge place, and they also have raspberries to pick as well. The girls had a great time, as did we. The weather was perfect. 70 degrees, light breeze, big puffy clouds, truely picturesque. Celia is obsessed with apples in general, so she was over the moon when she would pick one and eat it right then and there. Right now we have 3 huge bags sitting on our counter, and have already gone through 2/3 of one. Any time C sees someone eating on, she screams "bite, bite!" until you give in. Needless to say, there is a lot of apple eating done in secret around here.

Maia is changing so much in the last few weeks, it's amazing. Her speech has been great for awhile, but now she is developing such complex thought and reasoning it's truely astonishing. The other night, she was fighting with Sophia about a light. Sophia wanted to leave it on, and Maia wanted it off. She finally got upset and said to Sophie "But if you leave on the light, it will be bad for the earth!". She won. Sophia is HUGE on being good to the earth, so it was her first defeat. To see Maia make that connection though, "leaving on the light uses electricity, bad for the earth, Sophia also wants to take care of the earth, and I want this light off so this will work", it's cool.

Sophia is still loving school, though I'm 90% sure she has a crush on a boy in her class. She sits by him, and is in a group with him, but she wont' tell me his name. I have asked her every day to learn his name, but when she comes home, she just blushes and says she doesn't know. Oh, how upset she gets if I tease her! So it looks like we have our first mystery boy crush, on of many many in this house, I am sure. Lots of lovely things happening, fall is definately the best season in this house!