So Ella Mae had an eyelash on her cheek the other day and I carefully picked it off and told her to make a wish and that we would close our eyes tight, blow it off my finger into never, never-land, where it would go try and make her wish come true. You wanna know what this kid wished for?? Her wish was that "everyone would be funny and peaceful." Not for the new Frozen movie that just came out, not for a Barbie motor-home like her neighbor friend has...not even for that dang scooter she has been saving her hard earned dollars for. She wished that everyone would be funny and peaceful. Gah...talk about a mama's heart smiling and swelling with pride. This girl was born with a sweetness in her soul that I see so clearly in her everyday life...
The way she loves life, the people in it...she is one remarkable lil' lady already at the ripe old age of five.
G-ma and G-pa were in town, or if you ask Ruby "Papa and Nana" were here for a visit. I know I have gushed about my hubby's parents before...but I sure do love me some G-ma and G-pa! G-pa did his usual "fixing things" that needed some luvin around the house, while I would come home to a house full of the wonderful smell of G-ma's famous apple pie. She always lets the girls help her in the kitchen...and this trip was no different. She even brought them matching aprons!
She lets them get in there and do the dirty work even though it doubles the amount of time it takes to finish. But that's what grandma's do...right? I can remember sitting with my own grandmother on her front porch snapping peas and rocking back and forth laughing...feeling happy. I know my girls will have many, many of these memories with their grandparents...
It makes the pie tastes even better knowing these lil' hands helped make it too! While they were here there was a "Fairy Trail" going on down at the Botanical Gardens. Along the trail they had hidden some super unique, handmade fairy houses...who would't want to see that?!? Well I guess the hubby and G-pa weren't as excited as us women, so it ended up being a "girl" outing which was very fun.
Ella Mae squealing with excitement once we found our first "fairy house" was all we needed to solidify this was one of the coolest trails ever...
Each house was nestled into the trail and looked like it was awaiting a little fairy to come home to it soon. Ella Mae kept asking us if we could come back at night so we could actually see the fairies. Oh to be that young and have that kind of imagination and hope for magical things again!! There is definitely something to be said for seeing the world through a child's eyes..I think even I almost saw a few fairies flying around while we were there. almost. or maybe they were mosquitoes, but magical nonetheless!
Anywho...very cool and very fun. The boys sure missed out on this one!
Ruby has been super chatty lately which is exciting, but one of the things I am really diggin' is she is saying people's names (like Nana and Papa!). She has also gotten really good with the names of peeps in the culde-sac. The "grandparents" of the culde are Nani and NooNoo, neighbors who sit in their garage and are always friendly with the kids or anyone for that matter. When the garage door is up these days you just can't keep Ruby out of there. She will run across the culde-sac saying "Nani!!! NooNoo!!!" and pointing. It never fails...everytime we are outside. One of her favorite past-times is to sit and rock with them in their garage..
She sure does love her some NooNoo. No doubt she will have memories, similar to mine with my grandmother, of rocking with them in their garage and feeling happy. And then of course there is this....
an entire different level of fun! My kids are surrounded by so many people that love them and bring out the best in them it is fabulous...
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| ummm...can you say framer??? |
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| Nani trying to get Doobs to "peace out, dude.." |
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| Here is Nani really trying to get Doobs to show her "peace" sign.. |
Life is good folks! Peace out dudes!!!!
