Things Remembered

Here’s a running list of recent things that I want to record so I don’t forget in the days ahead…

The way Susie loves to immediately replicate any activity she reads about in a book, like forming her own detective agency or becoming a spy or architect or pet shop owner. 

How Becky leaves papers everywhere that she has decorated as a cover of a new book she is creating.  She rarely gets past the cover and first few illustrated pages, but they are marvelous stories and pictures and I always want to see more!

The way Baby T hides her head for peek-a-boo, how she growls with happiness when she sees her big siblings, how she rubs her head back and forth in her carseat or high chair when she’s excited.

How Jimmy’s voice drops down lower and his enunciation gets more proper when he’s explaining something about history or something technical that he wants you to understand.  It’s like he instantly gets ten years older. 

The way Jimmy absorbs historical information and loves, loves, loves to learn just about anything about anything. 

The way Danny softly talks to himself when he zooms cars around to entertain himself

How Danny loves to nuzzle his head against Baby T and say, “I love my baby sister” and then request that she give him goodnight tickles before he goes down for his afternoon nap. 

How Susie adorably  mispronounces words because she reads voraciously but doesn’t always hear the words spoken out loud – hence, “peninsula” becomes “penny-soola”

How Danny instantly drags a chair over to help me at the kitchen counter if he sees I’m baking (partly because he just wants to lick the batter out of the bowl!)

How Becky loves to wrap up in a blanket every morning as she eats her breakfast

How Danny’s laugh gets more uncontrollable and infectiously giggly when he’s sleepy

How Danny always asks at night after we’ve tucked him in: “What are we doing tomorrow?  And what are we doing not tomorrow, not the next day, not the next day, but the next day?”

How Baby T laughs heartily whenever she hears someone else laugh

How Susie takes super long showers and sings to herself while she’s washing up

How Jimmy doesn’t like to eat anything for breakfast – unless it’s scrambled eggs or cold leftover pizza

How frequently I have to go to the library to replenish the girls’ stack of books they’re reading – they go through several books per week, in addition to their school library books!

How Becky loves to do her whole evening routine as soon as she gets home from school (pack her lunch for tomorrow, do her chore, do her homework) so she can get into her pajamas and read as much of the evening as possible

How Jimmy loves to use the copy machine and I frequently find copies of random papers that he found worthy of re-printing

How the girls talk and giggle at night together in their room after we’ve tucked them in, as if their life is (still!) an endless slumber party