Lee Lee loves being a big sister, and Brady absolutely loves being a little brother.
Lee Lee stuck some jewels on her face, and decided that Brady needed them.
Then, she told me that Bray didn't like them, so could I take a picture before she took them off.
I took the first picture:
Then, Brady looked at Lee Lee, to confirm that he was doing what she wanted:
And he noticed that her head was tilted to the side as she said, "Cheese", and so he imitated her:
These two absolutely loved this game. This was also a nice, 65* day (Monday) before we got more snow.
"She's in a spa treatment. I used apples on her eyes because I couldn't find cucumbers."
If you ask our two-and-a-half-year-old Hunter, he will let you know in no uncertain terms that he is a big boy.
Just look at him ready to go on a bike ride with the big boys.
He made it about 10 yards before he asked Caroline to help him. She pushed him the remainder of the .5 mile walk.
There is so much I don't see every day... but sometimes I get a little glimpse of incredibly sweet things happening.
Yesterday afternoon, Tracey came home from school and promptly finished all her homework for the rest of the week. Then she and I did her spelling practice together. Then, she started asking if she could make something in the kitchen.
She occasionally asks if she can create something in the kitchen, and the answer is usually "No" because I don't think food is something a 7-year-old needs to experiment with. Food is expensive, and we're not going to start poking around in the kitchen hoping a weird combination will taste good.
But yesterday, she came to me with a cookbook in hand. She had a princess cookbook that she will occasionally ask if we can use to make something and my response is usually "no" because we don't have either the ingredients or the time - usually both.
But yesterday, she had chosen a pudding, whipped cream, and blueberry parfait. She asked if we had each of the ingredients, and we did... and she asked if she could make that recipe.
And finally, I had no reason to say "no".
She made the pudding, and 30 minutes after it chilled, she assembled the parfaits, and ALL of siblings LOVED her creation - pudding whipped cream and thawed frozen blueberries -- even Brady could have one.
I still have a hard time knowing what to do with my incredibly grown up daughter who is maturing and developing into her own person, every day. She has her own interests, her own determination, and an incredibly inventive and creative nature.
On Thursday I took a personal day to spend the day with my Littles and be available for all the Halloween festivities at my older children's elementary school. It was so much fun, and such a treat to take the day off work and fully focus my attention on being the Mama.
After we got the big kids off to school (in their costumes), I took the youngest three to little kid dance class, which is a free parent-and-child dance class that I used to do with my older children up until the year of Covid. It was so much fun and Lee Lee and Hunter both had a ball. Brady slept through the first half and when he woke up, I put him in his walker for the second half of class, and he was happy as a clam watching all the activity.
After class, Lee Lee gave him a big hug, and I snapped a picture. A few seconds later, he turned his head and gave her cheek a big wet baby kiss. It was absolutely precious. Lee Lee promptly wiped off her face and said, "Ewww, Baby Slobber!"
Well... this was done using her makeup (a present from my brother and his girlfriend)... so since she didn't make a mess in the house, there's not much I can say besides, "Oh my! How Fancy!"
She also made sure that Hunter was fancy too... lol.
I have a lot of fun when I get the chance to recreate some of my favorite pictures with different kiddos a few years later.
All our children are so special and so much fun and so amazing... but I am especially excited to see the fun, the bond, and the antics these three get into in the coming years...
