You know you're a parent on Valentines Day when your first kiss of the day is your son catching you off-guard by licking your face while he pretends to be a dog, which was the case this morning. You also know your a parent on Valentines Day when your day begins like this:[Jane's cry is heard over the monitor and the time of 6:10 AM is noted]
Mary dutifully gets up to nurse Jane and, as she's leaving, states: "Sarah's light is on in her room and Nathan is at his door and I think he has a poopy diaper"
Jeff: "grooooaaan.... alright" [thinking: maybe I can get them to come cuddle with me for a while... after changing Nathan's diaper, Sarah comes out of her room and, after much work and the offer of a balloon for them, they agree to "cuddle" (read: bounce on and crawl repeatedly over dad while he continues in his delusional belief that this is actually like sleeping in)]
Jeff: "Happy Valentines Day you two, you are so special, we love you so much!"
Sarah [very excited]: "Today is Valentines Day?!" [confused because she celebrated it yesterday at school]
Nathan: "Happy Birthday to you Daddy!"
Jeff: "Thank you Nathan, it's actually 'Happy Valentines Day'"
Nathan: "Oh... Happy Birthday to you, Sarah!"
Sarah and Nathan [many times]: "Dad, it's time for breakfast"
Jeff: "let's wait 'til Mommy is done nursing and then she'll come in and cuddle with us and we have a special surprise to tell you about" [I knew that would hook Sarah, who could hook Nathan and delay the exit from my bed]
[Eventually, Mommy joins us and rescues Dad from getting trampled]
Sarah [as soon as Mommy enters the vicinity]: "What's the surprise?"
Jeff: "Oma and Opa are coming here today and visiting us for a couple of days"
Sarah and Nathan: "Yay!"
Anyway, they eventually drag us out of bed and I made some yummy pink pancakes for them and used a cookie cut-out to make some heart shapes. Sarah was pretty skeptical about the color, but I reassured her they would taste the same. Sarah likes her pancakes pure and undiluted (one time I made her chocolate chip pancakes and she wouldn't eat them... Geesh!)
Mary and I enjoyed going to a Valentines Dinner last night at church for couples and then talking with each other about some of Mary's past suitors (always an enjoyable conversation, with lot's of laughs... you should ask her about them sometime). Today we get to meet Oma and Opa in Boise and then they will take the kids home and Mary and I will get to go out together and run some errands without kids.
Here is the card that Sarah made for us. This is our family (sans Jane) "Jumping on the trampoline" of course. Pretty cute! Oh, and Sarah is currently stating that she doesn't like the "h" at the end of her name so she had to add that afterward.We hope everyone has a wonderful Valentines Day today. We love our family.
7 comments:
That waking up routine is almost exactly the same as what goes on here! Hrrumph!
Holidays sure are different once there are kids around. But they sure are fun....in a different way of course. Enjoy your day!!!
Now you say the dinner was for couples...
Wow, I would not cope if my kids woke up that early! I never hear their sweet voices until after 8! Anyway, I love the picture Sara drew, and it is my favorite thing ever that she already has opinions about the spelling of her name! Darling!
I loved reading about your morning. That is very similar to our morning today. The most hilarious part is truly thinking you might get a bit more rest once they come in and start bouncing on the bed.
Hey, Mary left me a comment on my blog last week and since it was a long reply and I don't have Mary's email I sent it to Jeff as a private message in facebook. I just want to make sure Mary gets it!
Happy Valentines Day Hamm family (although late - sorry). Hope you had a blast with the parents. Papa and Grammy came here too. Love the pink pancakes, very festive!!!
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