She loves me.

Every day around noon is nap time around this house. I get to put the girls to bed and have 1:30 mins to 2:00 hours to myself. I so love nap time! Well for the past 3 or so days I have been cheated out of it. Naomi somehow won't nap. I'll spend up to 1 hour walking in and out of that room trying to get her to stop playing or calling for me, or emptying the drawers, etc, etc. until she finally falls asleep or Jocie wakes up, then Naomi is off the hook. Today after an hour of it I finally gave up. I just sat on my little couch folding laundry trying to ignore my little monster. Seeing that mom would not give her any attention she walked out of the bedroom into the living room where I was sitting and stood next to me. I wanted to blow up and start screaming to go back in that room, but didn't. I decided that talking would be a better idea. "Naomi, you need to go back in the room and take a nap or you can stay out here but there won't be any TV for you today" and she said,

"OK. What are you doing?"
"I'm folding laundry"
"Can I help"
"Yes"
and she did.

From that I realized that the reason to not want to nap is because she wants to spend time with me. She started Preschool this year and obviously that leaves us with less time to spend together. I felt like a bad mom for not seeing it before, but very happy to know that she loves me that much. I'm so blessed.

A little laughter.

Tonight as we were having dinner Jocie came around the table and stood next to me, got my attention by pulling on my shirt, then pointed to her tummy with a very sad look in her face. She had a tummy ache. I understood her immediately and went down the troubleshooting list. Do you need to go to the restroom? She said no. Do you need to throw up? She said no. I took her to her bedroom and sat there next to her as she laid in her bed, sweating and squeezing her eyes shut, in pain. I was scared and worried. Until Little Naomi came in the room with her sense of humor as always. She sat next to Jocie and told her to just throw up, simulation included. Jocie thought it was so funny that she cracked up laughing. Naomi smiled to see her sister's reaction. "She likes that!" and continued to do it, over and over again. Jocie continued to laugh releasing what seemed to be the problem (gas) and giving us one more reason to continue laughing. She was fine after that. Who would have known that a little laughter would solved the problem?

Pre-school

Naomi ira a la escuela por primera vez mañana. Ah estado muy emocionada y anticipando el dia desde hace muchos meses. Ella esta lista, y yo por un lado tambien lo estoy, pero por otro quisiera mantenerla en casa conmigo y no exponerla al mundo aun. Nisiquiera a cumplido los 4 años! Quien dice que nuestros hijos deban ir a la escuela a tan temprana edad? Quien invento Pre-school? Por que la gente anticipa que los niños vayan a la escuela a tan pequeños si no se estan quedando atras!? Quien dice que deben leer, saber el abecedario y contar hasta el 100 antes de empezar la escuela primaria? QUIEN? Y por que les estoy haciendo caso!?