24 hour bug!

jt - you literally had a 24 hour bug. you got sick sunday morning at breakfast and this morning, you ate 2 helpings of cereal before school and told me you were "starving". when i picked you up from school, you yelled, "mommy, i'm not sick - i'm ok, you don't have to worry anymore!" i just about fell over from the sweetness of that statement. i find it interesting that you seem very perceptive and aware of my feelings at all times. in that sense, i guess you are very much a mama's boy. you're back to your normal antics but i sense a slight change in the wildness. you have moments of making good decisions more often now and you can chill out for longer periods of time. can it be that you're maturing???? i'm glad you're not sick anymore...

ct- you took 5 steps today!!! a personal record for you! i also used the nosefrida on you today and it's fantastic. it's a snot-sucker but MUCH gentler on your little, tiny nose.. i think moms who have used the old fashioned aspirator can appreciate this much more than the moms who went straight to nosefrida. i wish i had this when oppa was a baby because he was sick so much more than you have been! darling, you showed the first signs of being a daddy's girl today. you were all over him and gave soooo many bbo-bbos (kisses) to him. and he loved every moment of it. i may grumble in the years to come about you being a daddy's girl but deep down inside, i hope you WILL be a big daddy's girl and i will love to see your relationship because i, too, am a big daddy's girl and i treasure the relationship and love i share with my dad.

it's been a rough day, kiddies. i lost my grandmother today. my last living grandparent. but during my times of sorrow and pain, your faces and smiles pull me out of the sadness and back into the light. no matter how cliche this all sounds, you really do show me that there is a circle of life and the future is yours...