I Love: These Two

What a pair. They keep my days interesting and full of joy. Their current obsession is the alphabet -- singing the ABC song, identifying letters everywhere we go, randomly telling me what sounds the letters make, and putting together the ABC train puzzle (and taking it back apart) 300 times per day.

This morning they kept running outside and getting in the van to play. When I'd come out, they would lock the doors and lay on the floor to "hide." Not only could I still see them, but I had keys, so they weren't as stealth as they would have liked to be.

I was finally able to distract them from that game when a friendly stray cat wandered into our yard. I loved seeing their excitement for the next 30-minutes as they watched that feline prowl about. Excitement and curiosity mixed with a tiny bit of fear when kitty came too close.

While I was fixing lunch, they each grabbed two spoons and banged them together. When that got old, they grabbed chopsticks and played them on the table like "drum sticks." When things got a little bit too quiet, I peeked in to see them using the chopsticks to poke holes in the pears in the fruit bowl in the center of the table. They both turned their guilty eyes to me and Izzy quietly and slowly said, "Aya do'ed it."

Izzy went to preschool this afternoon and Isaac took a bath (preschool just isn't his cuppa tea). I peeled myself away from reading blogs and took the time to blow bubbles at Isaac in the tub. I loved his delighted squeals as they stuck to his wet body, floated on the water and popped in his hands. It seems like I did more of that kind of thing when Sophie and Ian were little. Maybe I did, or, maybe those are just the moments that stick in my memory now.

When Izzy came home, we had to do the bubbles again (sans bathtub) and again I was filled with joy watching these two characters chase and pop those iridescent wonders. We had such a fun day reading stories and catching lady bugs. I feel so blessed to get to spend most of my days with these two.