Things I Don't Want to Forget

Natalie makes up the funniest songs. A few days ago, for example, we were in the car and saw a few 18-wheelers, so she made up a song about "big trucks". I can't remember how it went, but she had me laughing!
She's also made up songs about stickers, chocolate, Nemo.

Natalie likes to be a helper. Tonight she helped me unload the dishwasher. She also likes to help stir the NesQuik into her milk, put cookie dough on a cookie sheet, and move laundry from the washer to the dryer.

Nathan has been such a great dad. He has a few extra stressors right now, but he still makes time to play with Natalie when she wants to do Ring Around the Rosies or "ride the horsey", and he doesn't leave all the work for me to do. He pulls his weight, too.

Two of Natalie's favorite songs to sing (other than her own compositions) are "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and "Jesus Loves Me". She always does the motions to "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" (the song's not the same without the motions, right?), and in the car she often asks to listen to a "Jesus song". That's my cue to turn it to the local contemporary Christian station, if it's not already there.

Being that it's the start of spring, one of the classrooms at Natalie's daycare has eight baby chicks that hatched the night before last. This morning, Natalie woke up asking to "see da baby chickens". That was a blessing, because we were running behind this morning, and the baby chicks distracted her enough to make it easy to drop her off.

Speaking of the daycare, we are so incredibly blessed! We moved here when Natalie was five months old, and we searched all over for a daycare. We looked at several, and the one she is enrolled in was the nicest one we saw, and reasonably priced too. Enrolling Natalie in this daycare has provided us with so much joy and so many opportunities that we otherwise wouldn't have been exposed to. It's a church-based daycare, though not the church that we attend. From time to time, I have considered attending services there in addition to our home parish. I'm so thankful that their motto is "Loving God, Loving Kids". That's how all of the newsletters are signed off.

This is such a fun time in Natalie's life. We are thoroughly enjoying the "two's"!