Dreams

Well, Landon is still talking about me having another baby. He really wants a brother so badly, although if you ask him, he wouldn't trade either of his sisters in for anything . . . well, at least most days ;). He is sooo good with them and is such a natural in his role of Big Brother. He brought Libby a love note home from school that he had made for her today. It's nice that that hasn't changed since last year. That file is pretty thick! He thinks having four kids would be perfect and he just has to have a brother (He still says to help him take care of his two little sisters and to wrestle)! I'm going to have to get him involved in the Big Brother program to adopt a little brother as soon as he's old enough. It never occurred to him until tonight when I said, "Landon, there's no guarantee that if I had another baby, that it would be a boy. It could be another sister!" You should have seen the surprise on his face!

Later, as I was getting them to bed, them meaning all 3 kids (Seth is out of town), and we were in Landon's room on the floor, Landon and Libby were playing and then started to argue. I said, hold on guys, you are teaching Delaney how to argue. Do you want her to grow up and argue with you, too? Landon says, "No, how about if she only argues with Libby?" Then I explained that it didn't work that way. She would argue with him, too. I asked him if he didn't want her to be that way, how did he want to her to be? Without pause, he tells me, "I want her to be like Libby." WOW.

Speaking of dreams, I have the perfect secret weapon for bouncy litte girls who have a hard time settling down long enough to go to sleep. What I do is have Libby lay down on her bed and put little appliques on her toe and finger nails and then put a clear coat of nail polish over them and then remind her that she has to hold very, very still so that they will dry and not get on anything. Of course, we have done this during the day many times before so she understands, and so as not to risk any bedding! This is one of her all-time favorite things that we do together, and she loves pretty nails! Anyway, she lies there like a cut-out doll and DOESN'T WIGGLE for anything! I checked on her a little bit later, and she would only move her eyeballs to look at me out of the corners to ask me to tuck her in. I spread a blanket over her but left her feet out, and lay her stiff little arms out of top. She is so serious about it, that she asked me as I was leaving if it was O.K. to adjust her hand. She moved it so little that I couldn't even tell she had moved it at all! Needless to say, I was grinning from the inside out as I left her room. She also asked me if they would be dry in the morning when the sun came up so she could get out of bed then. Perfect!