FIA

The sweetest thing happened that brought tears to my eyes. Our pastor's daughter just turned 2 in December and she is such a cute and beautiful girl. I've had the opportunity to get to know this little girl whose known to be such a "diva". If anyone has spent any time with her, they'll know that "Fia" loves her food. She is a great eater and she's constantly looking for food to eat.

One time, at our football tournament Fia and her family came out to support us. One of our teammates parents brought food for the team and those supporting us. I was sitting on a blanket and I see Fia running around. My Hubs had to go get the drinks and he left his plate of food behind me. I'm busy chatting and in my side view, I notice Fia was alone with a plate of food. She was squatting korean style and grabbing the pasta with her hands and feeding herself. I was amazed that her parents let her go crazy with a plate full of food unsupervised. Then I see her with a drum stick and she's licking it and trying to take some bites. Then I hear her daddy yelling, "Fia, what are you doing? that's not your plate." Then he looks up and he asks whose plate is was. I remember the plate that hubs left and I said that it was hubby's. I didn't think twice and I'm busy chatting away. Hubs comes back and looks at his plate and he had this puzzled look and asks, "Is this my plate?" I said, yeah not thinking that Fia had taken bites here and there from his plate. And then when I took a quick breath from my conversation, I looked at hubs and he was chewing on his drumstick. I let out a huge laugh and I told him," I forgot to tell you that Fia took bites of your food and .... she was licking your drumstick like crazy." He gazes down at his half eaten drumstick and cringes and then shrugs his shoulder and continued eating it. Ah! So funny.

So knowing how much Fia LOVES food, I didn't think sharing her food would be an easy thing. A couple months back, she had a hard time sharing oranges and her mommy kept telling her that they have a lot of oranges and that she needed to share. Her mommy tells me of stories where she'd take food from other kids plate. She loves her food. So yesterday at church, I see Fia and I ask for a kiss. She gives me a kiss and she looks up at me. We gaze at each other for a few minutes and she breaks the one last potato chip in her hand and gives me a half. I don't take it at first because I didn't think she was giving it to me. I actually thought she was showing me she was eating a potato chip. But she kept saying, "eat...eat." She was giving me the half and then I took it. I tell her thank you and then she was about to eat the remaining half but then she stopped and then ... she turned to me and she offered me her remaining half. It brought tears to my eyes. She loves me... she really loves me. I told the story to Hubs and he said, "Wow, she must really really love you." hahahahahaha

I've been feeling really crummy this past week and this was such a spirit booster. She really touched my heart. I wanted to document it. Thanks, Fia!! You are a special gal.

Kindergarten

I just got papers from our neighborhood elementary school to register Bunny for Kindergarten. It's a full day program and as I was looking through the forms, I started getting teary eyed. I can't believe that my Bunny is going to start full day school in the fall. The teachers at her pre-school have been talking about it and Bunny talks excitedly about going to school on a school bus. I can't believe she'll be riding a bus without me. Or that she'll be gone for 8 hours of the day and I won't be there to protect her. I hear there are several classes that require parents to help monitor the room. I'll be signing up for everything... Bunny will be rolling her eyes. "Mom, you're here again! Get a life!" hahahaha... Honestly, I'll probably be grateful for the time because I will still have 3 children at home. I'm not worried about Bunny adjusting. She makes fast friends and she's extremely social. I'm just sad that she's growing up so fast. Those 5 years really did fly by...

I've been working from home for about 6 months now. It's a really nice job. It can be boring but i love that it's stress free. My kids try not to bother me but they'll sit next to me on our home computer which is right next to my work computer and they'll play their computer games and call it working... just like mommy. I sometimes have to kick Bunny and Lamb out because they'll start fighting on whose turn it is and I tell them to go downstairs.

The last time I was working, Bunny comes in and this is how our conversation went.

Bunny: Mommy, are you working?
Me: yes, I'm working
Bunny: What are you doing? What's this and this and this? (pointing to different things on my screen)
Me: I check for the patients name, birthday, their medicine... like this one is Kariva
Bunny: What's that?
Me: Oh, it's medicine that women take so that they don't have any babies.
Bunny: Why?
Me: Well, some people aren't ready for babies or if some people have many babies and don't want to have anymore babies, they'll take this medicine and they won't have any babies.
Bunny: Oh! (turns to me and looks at my belly and with both hands in the air, she adamantly tells me) Mommy, after this baby, YOU NEED TO TAKE THAT MEDICINE... (I laugh and her eyes wide open) NO , MOMMY, REALLY!!!!
me: Bunny, you crack me up

She is so funny. I was dying on the floor. The things she comes up with. She's only four but she does comprehend a lot.

(Some of you may not know... but I'm expecting my fourth child. I am now entering my 2nd trimester. )

The holidays were nice. We did our usual of spending Christmas with Hubs family. On Christmas Eve, as usual, we celebrated Hub's father's birthday. Hubs family are really big on gifts. All the younger kids in the family got gifts from their uncle and aunts families. We took the living room hostage. It was crazy. Wrapping paper flying, kids ooh ahhing, kids crying, parents yelling at their kids to say thank you, every adult that left the room were sweating and flushed. It was crazy. Sometimes I feel lost in such a big family but in the end there are more blessings.

I want to document one really sweet moment. Jadyn has always been a granddad girl. She loves hubs dad from the moment she started walking. Granddad always was throwing her up in the air and giving what ever Jadyn asked for. The bond is so sweet. There was another grand child who had such a bond. My nephew Pat Jamie. Now he's 8 and he's got competition... my jadyn. Pat Jamie would sit on Granddad's lap when we sing Happy Birthday and he got to blow out the candle for the last 6 years. When I went into the dining room to sing happy birthday, I saw Jadyn sitting on Granddad's lap and poor Pat Jamie standing beside them. We sung happy birthday and at the moment we sang the last word of the happy birthday song, the candles went out. Pat Jamie blew them out but he did it so discreetly that no one knew what happened. But Grand dad knew that Jadyn didn't have a chance to blow them out. So he made everyone, Bill's whole family, all 30 of them, to re-sing and he made sure that Jadyn got to blow out his birthday candles. It brought tears to my eyes. It was so sweet. Jadyn was so happy. No wonder she loves her Granddad.