Madilyn

Madilyn, Ashley and Brandon came to visit MeMe last night. PaPa was gone to western Oklahoma deer hunting and they were a pleasant surprise. She is getting so big. She loves to lay in the floor looking at the ceiling fan. She is trying to talk and loves to smile. She has actually spent the night with us a couple of times. She seems to sleep better at MeMe's house so Brandon said that she can just stay here until she turns 2. LOL They have discovered that she likes to be in the baby slingpack, so Brandon just walks around the house with her snuggling against his chest. He said that he did it for about 3 hours the other day. I also have seen pictures of her asleep in the sling laying on his chest. I don't think he realizes what he is getting himself into, but Trista has tried to warn him. Jacob is still sleeping in mommy and daddy room. They went and bought him a child size cot and he sleeps on it at the end of their bed, all the while his little sister sleeps peacefully in her own bed in her own room.

For the first time in his little four year old life he said something that did hurt MeMe's feeling a little bit. I pick him up from school everyday and when I picked him up on Thursday he told me, "MeMe I don't want you to pick me up anymore cause it is NaNa's turn. You get to pick me up everyday and you need to share. That night when Mike got home from work I said, "Jacob tell PaPa what you told me today when I picked you up from school." Well, Mike's remark was, "I wish I could pick you up from school." So when I went to pick him up yesterday, (friday) he started crying saying, "MeMe you weren't suppose to pick me up, PaPa said that he would pick me up today." I had to try and make him understand that PaPa Mike and PaPa Neal had gone hunting. So the next time PaPa has a day off he is suppose to pick him up from school.

A little update on Lauren (little Trista). She has become quite to little tattle tail. We were in the car on our way home from picking Lauren up from Miss Ann's and Jacob was telling me a story about what he had learned at school that day. He doesn't understand that MeMe can listen to him and Lauren at the same time and he told Lauren, "Sissy be quiet I was telling MeMe something," and her response was to say, "MeMe, Bubby yelled at me." Trista will hear them fighting in the bedroom about who knows what and tells them to quit fighting and in a very short time Lauren will come out saying that Bubby hit her, which most of the time didn't happen. She is just like her mother was, aggravating the boys and then coming and telling on them about something they didn't do to her.

I thank God everyday for my "Little Blessings" from heaven.