Things I am loving about motherhood this week

My 9 month old:
1) being clever enough to pick every piece of food off the table that she doesn't want to eat and dropping it on the floor.

2) crawling from room to room in search of her mommy. Whimpering until she finds me. Me getting back from a church meeting last night to hear that she did the same thing when I was gone to my meeting.

3) unknowingly taking her first steps when she was on a frantic chase after a cat at the park.

4) getting sad (pouty face, delayed reaction and all) when I am teaching her not to put grass and flowers in her mouth.
My 2 and 3/4 year old:
1) asking me to skip past the part where Mac and Lightning McQueen are being chased by the street racing cars at night. When I ask him why, he says, "Because it is a scary part."

2) wanting to independently dress himself and doing a pretty good job of it. Still needing a little help from me, which makes me happy :)

3) starting to respond more positively to mealtime eating (although we still have a ways to go). Perhaps I am being more realistic as well has firm/consistent with expectations of what he finishes on his plate. He even self-selected bananas to buy at the store so that he could eat one as we left. . . he must have been really hungry! Way to pick out and eat a fruit, Abram!

4) showing sweet kindnesses to his sister including sharing a toy or singing to her.