Hearts Surrendered

Our trip to PA to visit Grandparents Hutch and Pierce...Go here.

Conversing with Madison, who is two... (Matt told me of a similar converstaion he had with her, which prompted me to ask her this question) Me: Who is in your heart?? Madison: JEsus in my heart.Me: Where is God??Madison: God in my heart TOOOO! Me: Jesus loves little children.Madison: Jesus LOVES me and Jesus loves Drew toooo. Mommy loves Jesus and Madison loves Jesus toooo. (all the while, looking at her heart) Imagine this conversation with a two year old, who has a little helium voice and uses so much inflection in her words. It was the sweetest exchange I have ever had.

Madison said to me this morning, "I wanna buy a pink mermaid, and a red mermaid for Ridah (moriah)!" I assured her we would look. Then she said, "I wanna pink TRUCK! I wanna ride in it..Drew ride too. Drew fall, he fall out, Truck too big.." (at least she is thinking about her brother) Think she likes pink? We have this ball popping machine, it has a bunch of variously colored plastic balls that go into it and when you push the button it plays loud music and air forces the balls to pop out. As soon as they turn it on, Madison confiscates all the pink balls as they pop out. "MY pink balls..." and is more concerned about guarding her pink ones than playing with the toy after that. When she colors, she hogs the pink marker and pink crayons. When she is pretending about something, she always says she gets the pink *whatevertheobjectis* and Drew gets the Blue one. Right now actually, she is coloring with the pink marker!

I have to admit, I wasn't prepared. At. All. Madison and Drew have had their first squabble. Literally wrestling over a piece of chalk, with loud, vocal, resistance from Drew. He was clearly, NOT letting go. I am writing these things here so I can save them for all time. I don't want to forget, ever. I don't have a physical baby-book per se , just these electronic notes that one day I intend to pass on to these little stinkers. Since their first tiff, it has definitely become a regular thing for them. Madison is constantly taking Drew's toys, only to try to replace them with a less desirable instrument. I suspect this has gone on longer than I knew, the only difference being, he is able to put up a stink about it now. His little personality is developing and he definitely is queuing us in on his likes and mostly his dislikes. Drew LOVES to dance, loves it. Any music, and he's shaking everything he's got to the rhythm . It's totally adorable and...