Best Mommy In His Small World

A few days ago I was chatting with Theo and he mentioned that he thought I was a good mommy. I was kind of teasing him and bantering back and forth. I then said, 'do you think I am the best mommy in the world?' and without missing a beat he said, 'well, you are all I really know'. LOL.

Factory by Jack

One of Jack's vocabulary words is factory. I was asking him what the definition of factory was today and he quickly told me 'a place people went to work beginning in the 1760s'. He may be the only kid who would define factory by its place in the Industrial Revolution. I even had to double check the date. He was right.

Pauses by Addie

Today on the way home from church Addie asked me if she could pause her nap? A bit confused I asked what she meant. She said, 'you know when you stop something, you pause it.' I quickly told her no, and then informed her the correct definition of pause - emphasizing the part of starting again and not stopping for long. That was done just in case she decides on her own to pause her nap today!

Letter to Grandmother

Today Addie asked me for a card because she wanted to make Grandmother a card. I went and got out a card and then left her to it. I came back later and found that she had made a card with lots of stickers of dogs and little girls in it 'because Grandmother likes dogs and pretty girls'. A few minutes later I glanced over and saw Addie trying to put a postal stamp on it. I was in a hurry and quickly told her that the letter didn't need a stamp. This is all I vocalized. In my head, of course, I thought that we would hand deliver the letter and it wasn't worth wasting a stamp on it.

Well, later that day, I went out to the mailbox to put a letter in it that I wanted to posted tomorrow. In the mailbox, I found this:

Addie had taken it upon herself to put her letter to Grandmother in the mailbox. It was so sweet. It had no stamp, or name, or address on it but Addie knew that it should be in there if it was going to be 'mailed'. I rescued the card today and will hold onto the memory for a lot longer. So precious.