Last week I was battling some "getting irritated" days and I was using my weapon of prayer to combat my feelings of angst with my little ones. When i would find myself about to "lose it" I would, from my belly, bellow PLEASE!!!!!!! and then I would start quoating scipture and/or praying. LORD, I don't want to lose it on my kids. Give me a way out here!! Gunnar thought this was really pretty funny so if he saw me start he would join in PLEASE he would chime, "PLEASE!!!!!". Then of course we'd get to giggling and the moment would be past. On Wed. I decided to be proactive and give my kids a bath before naptime since Chris was going to be late at work. I had them in the tub, not their usual schedule. I got Gunnar out and in drying him off I saw the look no mother wants to see when their child is in the tub.....the LOOK of pushing. I abandoned Gunnar to his naked self and ran head long toward the tub, whipping Anders out, ONLY I was far too late.....he had done it. He had pooped in the tub, not just an easy clean up kind of poo poo but a, "how the heck" am I suppose to manage that one kind of poo poo?? He was terrified and was crying, I'm not sure if he was crying because I yelled no while I was whipping him out of the tub or because he felt helpless in his effort not too? I said OH PLEASE LORD!! and I marched down stairs (all of course after I'd dried and clothed my children). Surely I had a pair of rubber gloves? No, no gloves, Anders followed me everywhere with great interest. I sat staring at the tub, I looked down at Anders face and said "You know I have a Master's Degree right? You know I went to school for a lot of years and got pretty good grades and had a job?" He responded with his precious voice "You clean up my poo poo, yes?", aaaaaaahhhhhh "I clean up your poo poo, yes!"
I WONDER....
Mor Mor and her grandaughter and the infamous azaleas!!
***the ride that made me "owe my dad". I said "I can't go on that, it will make me sick!" Guess it made Audra and Grandpa sick too:)
**Audra facinated with the waterski show at Cypress Gardens. Thus her sherbert melting!
**Grandpa giving Audra some pointers on her long stroke!
Gunnar reminds me so much of my brother Dana. Just in the way he thinks, he's often in his own world (no offense D but it is common knowledge you too lived your wee life this way). He is brilliant and sometimes entirely lacking in common sense (Gunnar that is:)! Yesterday his teacher talked to me after I picked him up from preschool and shared this story. Apparently, in chapel the lead teacher was sharing with all the kids how Jesus was much like them. She went to great lengths describing his humanity. That he too was a little boy once. That he played games, told stories and even got "boo, boos" just like you! The room was quiet and Gunnar said with great conviction "Yes, but he could HEAL HIMSELF!"
Tell me that isn't a sight those two brothers ready for a trip in the canoe with their dad!
Here the boys started there sunny day ride in the canoe. Word has it Anders was up & down but Gunnar is ready for a trip down the bayou in search of alligators!
There they are in the very middle of the picture. This was Chris, Audra, Uncle Lee, Katherine &Lucy! They parked the canoe other side and went on an "adventure" looking for and finding an armadillo!
