I squeezed into my maternity bathing suit yesterday to join Leah, Adam, and Jason in the water fight that was starting up in the backyard. The suit fit just fine, it was just a little shocking to see bumps and curves where I don't usually have quite as many. But when I walked out the door, Leah ran over to me with an approving look on her face and said, "Mama, you look beautiful!" Sweet, sweet girl.
During a recent family game night, we tried to teach Adam how to roll the dice. His attempt resulted in throwing the dice straight ahead, which, unfortunately, was the location of Leah's forehead. We tried not to laugh at the stunned look on her face or the proud look on his.
A typical game that Jason plays with the kids is "wrestle around". Not my idea of a good time, but that is why kids have a mom and a dad, I suppose. Of course, the game usually gets wilder and wilder until someone gets hurt and starts crying. One night Jason was taking on both kids at once, and when Leah saw Adam struggling under Jason's arm, she got a steely look in her eye and declared, "Hey! That's my brother!" She grabbed the closest thing she could reach (a wooden block) and hurled it right at Jason's face from a distance of about 3 feet away. It hit him square in the lip, and while he held his mouth to cover the bleeding, again we couldn't decide whether to laugh at her fierce loyalty to her brother or scold her for throwing things.
We laughed.
2 comments:
haha- i love it!!! And how sweet Leah is. I agree,you are beautiful. You can be 200lbs with a baby in your belly you would be still beautiful because you are getting her ready to come to the world. And those pounds will be gone just in no time:) you'll see!
as for the maternity suit...Ahhh, so sweet of Leah! I love the way our children see us.
Love the fierce loyalty! It'll come in handy later, I bet ;)
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