Big Sis

My four year old is really into asking questions lately. We were here in my office one day this week and she looked up from playing with her toys and said mom… Are we rich? I stuttered for a moment and said are we rich? She said yes mom are we rich? I said sure we are. We are rich in love sweetie. We have all the love in our family that anybody would want.

She proceeded to run down the hall and yell woohoo we are rich!!! Now where on earth did she learn the term rich from? It really blowed my mind. I honestly don’t think she knows rich means money since she took the answer about we are rich in love.

I would never want her to worry about money issues in the family, or worry about that she has the latest new toy or clothes. I know I may have to cross that bridge in time when she gets older, but I would like to just stick with what I said. We are rich… rich in love. My blessing is for her and Lyndsee to know they are loved and mommy would do anything in the world for them. They are my heart and life and I know the same goes with daddy. He loves his girls.

So if your child asks you this question.. what would you say? I think the rich in love phrase is good hehe 🙂

Madisyn and I were recording our song for the Carol for a Cause that will be starting this week. Well after we finished up our song, Madisyn wanted to sing it the way she wanted to so I let her. You will have to listen. It is sooo cute.

Does your kids like to change up the words to Christmas songs? This is the first year she is really getting into the songs and it just melts my heart hearing her sing them.

Ok this morning we got up and braved the cold air and snow. The girls wanted to go with breakfast with Santa 🙂 Madisyn was all stoked until we actually walked in the door and she saw Santa 😉 She was ready to high tail it back out the door. So we left and I said are you sure you do not want to eat with Santa and take a picture. She said mommy I want to be a big girl and go in there. Sooo we take off back in there. She stood in front of him and said.. I am Madisyn and I am four years old. He said Hey Madisyn what do you want for Christmas. She said I want a Dora cash register hehe. It was cute.

I tried to get her to sit down on his lap to take a picture and she said NO MOMMY. LOL Mom had to jump in the picture with them 🙂

We had a good time at breakfast after we made sure Santa was staying clear of our table. TOO CUTE. Madisyn was definitely not taking her eyes off him to make sure he wasn’t coming to sit by her.

Today around 2 I was in my office working while the girls were drawing on their magna doodles. All of a sudden Madisyn comes a running… Mommy Mommy look outside it is snowing. This girl just loves snow. You can tell she has her mommy’s blood going through her ;). Then she said mommy this means it is Christmas! Awww… gosh I hated to break her heart. She was all excited that it was Christmas day since there was snow on the ground.

When this happened, I promptly walked away from my desktop and headed down to the living room and sat by the window for the longest time watching the snow fall. It was so beautiful and gives you time to reflect on things as well. Plus it is so awesome getting to watch your child’s eyes just get bigger and bigger with each snowflake.

I did have a little mischief in me though. I went and got my laptop and Im’ed a good friend in Florida. She HATES Florida and I just had to rub in. I said “Lau I am sitting here by my window watching the beautiful snow come down.” She immediately gave me the smiley with the tongue sticking out LOL. She knows I love her but I just thought that was too funny. hehe 😉