TwoBabiesDown!

I work two days a week. One day a couple of weeks ago when I got home I saw two little feet coming at me from under the porchshade and heard the sweetest little voice say, "Did you miss me today Mommy?" I melted. And, Yes I had, veryveryvery much so my littletotgirl.

This morning I woke up and looked at my little totgirl and told her I loved her. In her sweet little 3 year old voice, she replied, "I love you too Mommy." I melted yet again. What a perfect way to start the day, even if it was 5:20 am she woke up early due to having had a potty accident in the bed. But really, could the day have started any better? I'll have to hold on to that sound for today and remember it when she tells me I am 'stinky.' Yep, the potty humor and insults have begun! She will tell me she wants to eat 'poopy,' and one time she got mad at me and told me that I had to go to the naughty corner. I asked her where that was and she said, 'By the poo-poo.' Of course, where else would it be, afterall?

My babyboy (really probably technically a totboy now, but I refuse to acknowledge him as so quite yet) woke up about an hour later. I love how he (almost always) calms the moment he sees me. It has been like that pretty much from day One. I love to snuggle with him in the morning and, still nursing, have that time together that only we get to share.

Now the day will be filled with playing preschool. On my two workdays, totgirl and babyboy attend totbabycollege, a really awesome, fun place with wonderful caregivers. I am filled with gratitude for these most gifted people, the ones who care so excellently for my children when I am not.

I digress...so totgirl loves to play preschool. She has renamed all the rooms in the house; We have the pre-k room (aka the kitchen), the babyroom (aka the backroom), the preschool room (aka the living room) and the outside (aka the playroom); We spend our days doing circle time, naptime, snacktime and so much more; I have to ring bells to get her attention, shout '1, 2, 3...lunchtime!,' and address her, not by her own name, but as 'the friends' (i.e., 'Would the friends like to come eat?'), Sometimes it can be a little nuts because I don't really know all the rules (not to mention I have a strange feeling the rules change as quickly as the totmood at times. I know, say it isn't so!), but actually I learn from watching her recreate her totbabycollegeworld and, every now and then, it can work to my advantage in gaining some level of totcooperation.

What's really fun, as well as somewhat dangerous, is watching the kids 'play' together. Totgirl, 3, has definite ideas of what is going on and babyboy, 1, has his own sort of ideas as to what is going on. Totgirl goes back and forth between trying to alter her version to match his and just getting annoyed with his lack of cooperation or destruction of the perfect order of chaos she has created, which is where the danger element enters. They do have a few games where they have relatively well established, mutually agreed upon rules and enjoy playing together. Crawlchase and Tug-of-War are the two favorites. One day they were playing Tug-of-War and suddenly I heard a loud cry from babyboy and, after about a 5 second delay, a loud cry by totgirl afterwhich she yelled out 'Two babies down!'

I am one lucky Momma :-).