Surprise

"Close your eyes, Mommy," Selah requested. "I'm drawing you a picture." She turned back to her work, but noticed I still hadn't shut my eyes.

"I said close your eyes!" she snapped. I complied. She paused. "Oh, and close your mouth, too."

It must have been gaping in shock that my darling daughter sounds very much like an artistic tyrant.

Your kisses

"Oh, I need kisses from my sweet, sweet boy," I squealed between kisses and lumberjack squeezes. Judah giggled.

"And, oh, I need kisses from my sweet, sweet girl," I said. I rolled Selah around the bed and planted kisses all over her face.

After a thorough kissing, Selah sat back on her knees and grinned.

"They have to drain down," she announced. She made a motion from her mouth to her chest. "Your kisses have to drain down to my heart."

Halloween Haha

Selah was a cute, little rogue pirate princess. Judah was a mischievous garden gnome. And Mom was moving toward an exotic East Indian princess.

"What are you doing, Mom," Selah asked.

"Putting on my makeup," I answered as I swept teal shadow over my lid and up to my temple. "I'm a princess."

"Stop, Mom, stop!" she complained. "You have to stop. You have to take that off."

"Why?" I asked. "I think it is pretty."

"But you won't be an Indian princess if you put too much on," she replied.

"I won't? What will I be?" I asked.

"A dragon!" she cried. "You'll be a dragon!"

If only we were rick

"Hey, Mom," Selah said as we breezed home in the car.

"What?," I answered.

"If we were rick, we'd have a TV in the car, right?," she asked.

"If we were rick?," I responded.

"Yes, we'd have a TV in the seat of the car for me to watch while you drive," she said.

"If we were rick?," I asked again still not getting it. "Oh, if we were rich!"

Ding. Ding. Ding.

"Yes, if we were rick," she said again.