Okay, it's been so long since I blogged that I don't even know where to begin! This calls for a list...
1. Before we left for vacation, we took the girls to the Pumpkin Patch here in Jefferson. They had a new maze this year, so we decided to let Lilly Grace give it a try. She quickly realized that there was candy hidden down a certain path...Sweet Tarts (her first time eating them), so instead of trying to find them over and over again each time she went through the maze, she politely asked Mike to pick her up so she could see over the barriers to the candy. Sometimes she's too smart for her own good.
2. Speaking of smart, we were having a conversation on the way to Janet's the other morning about the moon, which is now in the sky when we leave the house every morning. Here's how it went:
LG: "Mommy, looka the moon! It's beautiful, shiny, and big."
Me: "Yes, sweetie, it's a full moon."
LG: "It's way up high - I don't want to touch it."
Me: "Well, that's a good thing because you can touch it from here."
(about five minutes later - sun is coming up)
LG: "Mommy, the dark is going away...can you make it dark again."
Me: "No, sweetie, the sun is coming up and the moon is going down. The sun brings light during the day."
LG: (very sad) "Well, I want to touch the moon before it goes to bed."
Me: (we're out of the car now) "Well, maybe one day you will touch the moon."
LG: (jumping, trying to reach it) "Mommy, I can't touch that moon because it's too high. Maybe if I had an airplane I could reach it."
NOTE: I have never explained airplanes to her
3. We went to Jamaica, mon. One word - AWESOME! There is something to be said for all-inclusive resorts....you don't have to carry money (or worry about it for that matter)...you can eat really good food and have really good drinks at any hour of the day as much as you want without paying or tipping...people wait on you hand and foot...you can scuba, snorkel, go sailing...and you don't ever have to step off the grounds of the resort (and that's a good thing!). We stayed a Couples Negril http://www.couples.com/ and I highly recommend it to anyone seeking ultimate relaxation at an affordable price.
4. I have the best husband on the planet. It is our five year anniversary this weekend, and our gift to each other was the trip to Jamaica. We are on a strict no-gift policy this year. Well, this evening, Mike said, "I want to give you your anniversary gift a little early," to which I replied, "you better not have bought be anything." (Yes, I am one of those women who really means "don't buy me anything") He led me to the computer and proceeded to start a video that he created and burned on a disc. I sat at the computer and cried as I watched the sweetest, most romantic thing I have ever seen. He made a video of all of the pictures from when we were dating, when we got married, and when we had kids...put it to music ("A Moment Like This" by K. Clarkston)...and even had captions edited in with sweet things like "And then our family grew - Lilly Grace - May 2005" and "One just wasn't enough - Pressley Kate - April 2008." I swear, sometimes I wonder what I did to be so blessed...there are not enough diamonds, cars, or expensive things in the world that compare to how rich I am.
