Paying Attention

Usually in Sunday School Guinness walks around and wreaks havoc, rather than sit sweetly on a carpet circle and listen to the story and then do a a game and craft. But maybe he has been listening lately: he was flipping through our kids Bible and said "That's Joseph'. (It wasn't really Joseph, but it was a robed, bearded Old Testament man...could have been:) Flipped a few more pages. Next bearded man: "That's God!!!" Then he saw a woman. Auntie asked him who that was and he said...


"Cinderella."

He also put on pretend lipstick this week and announced how pretty he was :)

Names

Tonight we were playing Gemma's favorite game, Mother-Daughter, where I was the daughter, she was the mother, and Guinness was the little brother. During this game it is customary for Gemma to call me 'Daughter', and then at one point Guinness said to me, 'Look at me, daughter'. Copycat.

And last week we had a glimpse back in time to a Gemma conversation. Guinness was talking to me and Chris, and assigning roles for play. He was the prince, Daddy was the King, Mommy was the Queen, and Gemma was.... the cleaner! Ha Ha!

Round 2

And just as we finish getting Gemma to sleep BY HERSELF IN HER OWN BED, Guinness gets the ability to climb out of his crib at will. And so last night I woke up at about midnight. And who was curled up beside me? Guinness! (cue scream of horror!!!) Ha ha, just kidding. But as cute and cuddly as my kids are and fun to sleep with on occasion, as the 4 1/2 year battle with Gemma may finally be drawing to an end, you can guess how excited I am to begin all over again with baby #2. It was SO HARD to put him in his own bed, because he is way too cute and cuddly and with his littlle puppy eyes, 'I lay down with you Mommy!!' Awww, heartbreaking. But I stood firm. A few hours later he was up again, in our bed, and I noticed him and he hid his head under the pillow. "Mommy, I'm asleep! Don't move me!" MOMMY, I"M ASLEEP!!!!" Awww, it was really hard, I wanted to cuddle up with him so badly but its not fair to let him do it one night if we're not going to everynight, and we have had to work really hard to get Gemma out of our bed. Anyway... pray that he can be a happy boy in his own bed again :)