The things you learn from kids...

If you ask a lot of people who knew me before I was married and had kids...I've learned to have a little bit more patience. It's very hard for me....I think I'm just super stubborn and rather just do the job myself. My kids have also taught me to have a lot more compassion. You always wonder what your kids do at other people's houses or what they say. I would secretly like to take credit for what my kids say but I know they are just genuinely sweet girls who I have just been blessed with. The other day my sister and brother in law had their second baby, Kenadi and she's doing well considering the circumstances but it's a very hard time for their little family. If you want to know what's going, you can go to their blog HERE. My girls are crazy about their cousin Jackson and excited they now have a girl cousin. I told them the news as well as that she has to stay in the hospital for awhile so she can get better. Later that day, I picked them up from school. I asked Madison how her day was and her response, "It was not good, Hannah and I just thought about Christina and Kenadi the whole day." It melted my heart.

Last night they were looking forward to making Kenadi some pictures for her hospital space...I took Hannah with me to the store to get some glitter and paint since, "Kenadi will need my painting pictures." (That was Hannah) And so we headed to the store and Hannah stopped by the toy section, I was kind of in a hurry since I wanted to get home so they could start it and we still needed to have dinner, and told Hannah we can't go look over there, we're here to buy supplies. She then said, "But I wanted to look for a toy for Baby Kenadi." I felt kind of bad since I just assumed she was looking at things she wanted and I didn't want to sit there hearing about how she wants this and that for her birthday. So we looked...she wanted to get her princess dress up shoes....she was a little heart broken I said probably not today but that instantly changed as soon as she saw the cool crayola paint brushes I found that already had the paint in them. So we headed to grab a pizza since it was already 5:30 and as we waited for it to cook, we ate a Subway cookie and chatted...which was super fun. I love hearing her stories...always makes me laugh.

We came home, ate and then they were little artist (I have glitter on my kitchen table, chairs and stool) but it adds character right? And...helps that it's my $50 table and chairs I don't care about....hence why we bought it. And so they went to town and were pretty excited at their works of art. I'm kind of bummed since I was hoping to scan some so Kenadi could have some right now, but I will just have to use snail mail and then she'll get the whole glitter effect.

And here is Isabella...she got her passport picture taken yesterday but she was wearing this...so cute! (She is orange because she had just finished up her dinner.)

A picture of Madison and Kenadi

Hannah

The three monkeys

Life is once again super good, the polka dot blanket has been washed and is constantly with this little girl.