Water Hunt

Dear Jonah and Audrina,

Every year around Easter, North Lake Community College hosts a Easter egg hunt in the pool. All the plastic eggs go in the pool and they divide the kids into age groups and they get to go in the pool and swim for the eggs. The little kids Audrina's age unfortunately don't get in any kind of water. In the past there have been little kiddie pools that they wade in but this year they just had the eggs hid in some kind of backdrop with fake grass and sorts. It was good enough, and Audrina you had a good time. I think once you realized that there were candy in the eggs you wanted more eggs!!! Jonah this was your first year to go in the "big" pool. They put a life jacket on you and you jumped in the pool. You had a really good time and although you were disappointed that you didn't get the MOST eggs you had a really good time and already you are planning for next year. Ya'll had a really good time and it makes me so very happy to see ya'll having fun.

Love always and forever,
Mommy

Hair cuts and Throw up

Dear Jonah and Audrina,
Well a couple of weeks ago we got your haircut Jonah. Short. All I wanted was a trim but somehow your father talked me into getting it cut short...I couldn't take the sight of the hairdresser cutting off your beautiful locks. I literally got tears to my eyes and had to leave the salon. It's just hair, I know, It'll grow back right? But that's not how I look at it. Your hair was beautiful. It was who you were. It gave you character and fit your funny and mischievous little personality. It set you apart from everyone else and made you look even more like a star soccer player! :) Not that you don't look handsome now. You always will be handsome. One look at those dimples and every woman and girl's heart melts, but I want your hair back. I refuse to cut it again once it gets long. You are old enough now though to tell me what you like and you said you like it short and you want to keep it short. NOOOOO!! This will definitely be a battle...
Audrina you have gotten so big. Your personality continues to grow and shape everyday. Right now you like to run from me and giggle. I know everyone in the grocery stores must think I'm the most horrible mother around who can't control their kids. I am the mother who I used to gawk at and think "Goodness woman can't you control your kids?" Ya'll both, but YOU especially Audrina like to run from me and hide in between the aisles and clothes. As I get near you scream and in a fit of giggles you run as fast as you can from you. I catch you and you start screaming at the top of your lungs and squirming and twisting, throwing yourself back until I let you down again. As soon as I put you down, off you go again. It's IMPOSSIBLE to go grocery shopping with you. If you aren't running around you are making me open every single thing I put in the cart so you can eat. This week when we went grocery shopping, I had to open a bag of doughnuts, a jello, a yogurt, a Pringle's chip container, a Crasins pack, and a bottle of water. By the time I get to the check out line I'm having to tell the cashier "watch out, that one's open" over and over again. Not to mention this week after you had eaten ALL the above mentioned stuff you wanted to "walk Mommy, walk Mommy". Okay, I know what's coming next. A game of chase. You running, your brother running after you, and me running after both of you (don't we make a sight in the stores). So off we go and not five minutes later I scope you up and BLAAHHHHH! All over me, the floor, and yourself you threw up. And not just a little spit up, but EVERYTHING you had eaten and more. I was covered in puke and it was disgusting. It's amazing what as a mother you get used to and have to endure without throwing up yourself. What would I have done if your dad wasn't there I will never know. Thank goodness he was because I immediately took you to the car and had to lay in the back seat so no one would see me without a shirt on. I could NOT leave a puked on shirt on the whole way home!!!! You could have cared less. I stripped you down to your diaper and you had the best time dancing and bouncing in the seats. Ahhh, motherhood...

Love always and forever,
Mommy

Best Friends Part 2

Dear Jonah,
I think it is so wonderful to watch two little kids and watch them as they interact with each other. They have their own language and their own inside jokes. You have a best friend at school named Mack and ya'll look to do everything together at school. When your dad and I drop you off at school we watch from the window as you run to him and ya'll run off to go play together. Ya'll immediately run to each other and start chasing each other on the play ground. When we pick you up from school you have to tell him bye before you go and ya'll laugh at each other and call each other "Mr. Bam Bam!" So cute. It all started when you wore the Flinstone's kid Bam Bam shirt to school and every since then, Mack has called you Mr. Bam Bam and you call him Mr. Bam Bam. Ya'll laugh at each other's jokes and give each other hugs and high fives. It's adorable. Ya'll both play soccer, ya'll both wear your hair long, ya'll both like to act like crazy boys and jump on stuff and run around. Ya'll are two peas in a pod. We've requested that ya'll be in the same kindergarten class at school next year because I can't bear for ya'll to be apart. It is so important for a little kid to have friends and have fun with someone your age. Not that you wouldn't have fun with the other kids, but you notice when Mack's not there. You say, "I hope Mack is at school today." I hope so too baby, I hope so too.

Love always and forever,
Mommy