Proud Mommy

I love when Hannah helps me.  Today I was changing Seth upstairs and needed something from downstairs.  She was still down there putting in the last three letters of her letter puzzle.  I told her she could do N, O, and P and then she needed to come up for a nap.  She did precisely those three letters, no more.  That's not why I'm proud though.  I called to her, and asked her to get something out of our bedroom.  Then I changed what I wanted and asked her to "go in my bathroom, and get the special lotion out of the second drawer."  She repeated it as she was walking, and came upstairs with exactly the item I needed.  I know this isn't a huge thing, and normally it wouldn't have been noteworthy because she's very good at following directions, but after I'd changed my mind after she'd gone to get the first thing, and then accurately bring me the second.  I was so impressed.  And thankful.

This is the last day that I will ever have a 2 year old and a 3 year old.  Tomorrow I will have a 2 year old and a FOUR year old!!!  She'll be 4!  It makes me all verklempt.  I'm not a naturally verklempt person either.

I'm going to make her a cake (actually starting it in just a few minutes).  Dusty's taking off a couple of hours tomorrow morning to make her whatever she wants for breakfast (a ham, egg and cheese sandwich and possibly bacon...after her cereal because she's a HUGE creature of habit).  Then we'll go take lunch to Dusty's work to eat with him, then have a good supper of whatever she wants.  She'll open her birthday present from us tomorrow night.  Then Thursday Dusty's taking 2 hours in the afternoon, and we're going to Chuck E. Cheese.  She's going to be ecstatic.  I'm debating whether to invite Dusty's siblings.  We can't afford pizza for everyone, but we'd love for them to come if they wanted.  Maybe if we started off with that, then people won't feel offended.  Also, they don't have to bring presents because the Chuck E. Cheese experience will be enough present for her.  Plus, we'll have cupcakes.  Who doesn't love cupcakes?

I had something else that I was proud about, but I can't remember what it was.  Man, I have to stop forgetting these things!