Ry's Sweet Letter to Madeline

If I Could Pick Any Sister, I Would Pick You!

If Only I Was the Queen

On our walk today, Madeline asked me if we could do something.  Because we were on a tight schedule to get home and get dinner going, I told her that we would not be able to do this thing today.  As she walked on, I heard her mumbling behind me, "If only I was the queen and she was my servant".  Whoa, how funny and cute.

I Also Pick My Nose

A simple cold is again plaguing the lungs of my sweet boy with asthma.  Cough medicine, albuterol, and pulmacort seem to be doing little.  After a coughing fit of more than 30 minutes, I brought him into our room to sleep propped up with us to see if he could stop coughing and get to sleep.  After another 30 minutes, I realized that he was not sucking his thumb, and thought I would give him permission to do so in hopes that it would help him sleep (the rule is that he can only suck the thumb in his room at night).  After a few minutes of sucking his thumb, my sweet Ry looked up at me groggily, and said, "Mommy, I also pick my nose".  Meaning that to get the full effect of the soothing thumb, he had to have thumb in mouth and pointer finger in nose.  Oh goodness did I belly laugh.  It was so funny and he was SO serious.  Of course I told him to go ahead.  Being a mom is such a joy.