Cute Conversations

As I was getting ready this morning, Bailey came into my bathroom, climbed up on the edge of the tub, and started rummaging through my makeup bag.  She fished out the chapstick and said, "Mama, I have some that please?"  So I said, "Sure.  You can have some when I am done brushing my teeth."  While she was waiting she took out the powder and powder brush and "applied" her makeup.  Then she took out the mascara and said, "I have some that too." LOL! :)

Also today, I had a priceless conversation with Emily:

"Mommy, where is the baby boy going to sleep?"

"In the guest room.  We won't have a guest room anymore; we're going to make that into a nursery."

"All by himSELF?"

"Yes, all by himself."

"But he will cry!  He will wake up and see that he is all alone and he will cry!"

So I said, "When he cries it will probably be because he is hungry.  But that is what Mommy and Daddy are here for.  We will take care of him.  Okay?"
"Okay, but if you don't hear him I will just come into your room and say, 'Mommy, the baby brother is crying!'"

SOOO cute! It's sweet that she already cares about her baby brother. :)

"Can I hear it sing?"

While Emily was at school this morning, I lugged out my sewing machine to get started on a birthday present for a friend.  I am not very good at sewing, nor do I like to sew, so my machine hasn't gotten much use, but I can do a straight seam and that's all that was required for the pillowcase I was making.  When Emmy got home, of course she immediately noticed the sewing machine on the kitchen table.

"Wow!" she exclaimed.  "What's THIS?"

"That's my sewing machine.  I'm making a pillowcase for Lydia."

"Can I hear it sing?"

Well, I burst out laughing at that.  "It doesn't sing, sweetie," I said.

"But it says 'SINGER'."

How can you argue with that? LOL!!

YIKES!

Well I guess I've been pretty distracted lately!  I can't believe how quickly this summer is flying by.  Here's an update on some of the things we have been doing lately.

On August 16, we had a sonogram and found out that Baby #3 is a BOY!  We are all very excited.  Emily wanted "a boy baby this time" and Bailey finally said she'd like a baby brother (instead of her usual "No, thank you" every time we'd asked her if she wanted a brother or sister), so that was wonderful.  His name will be William Kenneth McDowell V and we'll call him Liam for short.

Also on August 16, Emily started preschool!  She's attending VPK and she loves it.  She cried on the first day because she didn't want to come home--the kids who stay all day (she leaves at noon) were going to make gingerbread men in the afternoon and she wanted to do that!  So we made some of our own:

Poor Emily came home from school yesterday with a fever, and since it got pretty bad over night, I took her to the doctor this morning.  Diagnosis?  Strep throat AND scarlet fever!! She'll have to miss school until Monday.

Bailey is having a hard time with Emily going to school.  When we drop her off, she says, "I go school TOO" and I have to explain that she has to wait until she turns four.  Then when we leave, it's, "Oh, no! Lella!" like I'd just forget her somewhere!  My favorite part, though, is when we pick Emmy up from school and they greet each other:

It's hard to imagine what it'll be like when Emily goes to "real" school and is gone all day!  Right now it's only three hours!!

Bailey has also developed an interest in using the potty, which may or may not have to do with my bribe of M&Ms for using the potty.  For a while she wouldn't have anything to do with panties, but then the other day she decided she'd give them a try.  It was so cute!  She still prefers her diapers but she is very much a creature of habit and she doesn't like any sort of change to her routine.

Bailey also moved from her crib to a toddler bed, which has been a difficult transition for her.  She's been up a lot at night.  I keep hoping once she gets used to the bed we'll go back to sleeping--she used to sleep 11 1/2 to 12 hours a night and now she's up several times, sometimes for an hour or more!  It's been hard!

Well, that's all I can think of right now!  I will try to be better about updating the blog over the next few weeks.