Welcome to the newest way to keep up with the Moss family! I've been meaning to start a blog for several months, but was stubbornly holding out until the new year. Boy did it come fast! Gone is our baby site, and it almost seems that our babies are "gone," too. (Insert wistful sigh here.) Darrin is almost 3, and Madi just turned 1. It's been so rewarding watching them grow in so many ways, but it's also a reminder of how quickly time flies.
Without getting weepy and mushy, let me share with you some of the cuter highlights of our past year, also some of my favorite memories...
We had gone to dinner and were about to head home, putting the kids in the car. Josh placed Darrin's sippy cup on top of the car, and it fell to the ground whacking the car window on it's way. Josh said, "Darn it!" A few minutes later as I'm strapping Darrin into his carseat he says to me, "Darn it!" I suggested we say something nicer, like great googly-moogly. He looks at me pensively and says very matter-of-factly, "No, Mom. It's not called great googly-moogly, it's just called darn it." Oh well, I tried! And where did he get off thinking he could call me "mom" instead of "mommy?"
Back in June we were visiting my family in Arkansas and Alabama. My mom (G-mom), my sister, and the kids and I were headed from Arkansas to my Papa's house in Alabama. I was suffering from my first UTI and, well, needless to say I was uncomfortable and desperate to get to a restroom for much of the drive. After what seemed an insufferable amount of time we made a quick stop at a service station, and when we were once again heading down the highway my son belted out one of his favorite tracks from one of his Bible Songs CDs..."I gotta peeeeee like a riverrrrr, I gotta peee like a riverrr, I gotta pee like a river in my soouullll..." Boy was I glad he hadn't started singing that a few minutes earlier! We laughed so hard. He was actually saying, "I got (a) peace like a river..." but it came out so funny and with such comic timing we were pretty tickled!
Darrin can make Madi laugh like no one else can. Madi has a good sense of humor--you can tell that right away. She is always smiling and making silly faces. But when it comes to laughing, she holds that in unless she is being mercilessly tickled or else Darrin unwittingly coaxes a giggle out of her. She loves it when he swings around his "bopper" (cloth diaper lovey) or a blanket. I don't know what is so exciting about it, but she will cackle and giggle. It's so fun to watch! She also has taken to running from him expecting to be chased. She thinks it's great fun to run around the island with her brother in hot pursuit on his tricycle. But the funniest thing is pretty recent...she covers her head with her jacket or some other smallish bit of material and walks around. (It reminds me of the movie, Parenthood, where the little kid wears a pot on his head and repeatedly runs into the wall.) When she is covered up, I call her name (as though I can't find her...that's part of the game!) and she giggles and giggles. It's so cute!
There is so much more I could share, but it would take forever! I look forward to seeing what fun this new year brings, and I am anxious to be able to share with you the funny things Madi says--right now we are limited to Daddy, Mama, tind-oo (thank you), and waves and blown kisses...with lots of raspberries thrown in! And I really wish I could show you her wave. It looks so princessy! Either that or she is near to suffering from a very southern case of the "vapors."
Please join us on our journey through 2009 and beyond! I promise to post regularly, or as regularly as the kiddos will allow!
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