Precious Moments

Reagan' s teacher told me today that she dressed up in the wedding veil in their classroom and announced, "Somebody marry me!" I can't wait to share that one at her rehearsal dinner. I think it springs from the fact that Riley has said he won't marry her.
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Reagan: Mommy, I was thinking and I had a bad think!
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Reagan: I saw the ducks. I thought they were flying in a triangle then I saw it was a arrow without a stick.
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Reagan screamed in her sleep and I went flying into her room.

Me: Did you have a bad dream, Sweetie?

Reagan (groggily): No, I had a bad think.

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Several times now when I have gotten all over Reagan for something she did, she will shoot back with the perfect reply. I will be in the heat of explaining why she should not have done whatever she did, i.e. completely soaking the hand towel in their bathroom, AGAIN. She will look up at me grinning from ear to ear and say, "But you still love me!" Such a Dustin thing to do! He knew exactly how to take the sting out of an argument.

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Every night I lie down with Riley until he falls asleep. And every night, no matter how hot or cold it is outside, he wants the ceiling fan on. Not only that, he has taken to sleeping in just his pull-up with no sheet or blanket covering him. Meanwhile, I am next to him with the covers pulled up to my chin while I shiver! Again, a Dustin trait (except while I was pregnant - that was the only time I ever froze out Dustin.)

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Riley has decided we should read the Bible... starting in Genesis. We are now on chapter 18. We have had many interesting conversations as a result of this endeavor. We have covered murder, nakedness, drunkenness, lying, polygamy, and circumcision, just to name a few. By the way, I am so impressed with his Bible knowledge. When I read to him God's covenant and how Abram's descendants would be enslaved for 400 years and God would inflict suffering on the captors, I stopped and asked if he knew what God was talking about. He said, "When Moses will lead his people out and God sends the bad stuff on Pharaoh and his people (the red water, frogs, the sores, the bugs) and if they didn't have a mark on their door, then somebody died. Pharaoh kept saying that if Moses got God to take it away, he would let the people go, but every time God took it away, Pharaoh would change his mind."

Uh, yeah, Honey. That's about it.