There's something special about weekend mornings. Lately, Jamie has been waking me up, and then going to get Gisèle from her room. I listen to them on the monitor, singing, chanting "No more monkeys jumping on the bed!", talking about her blanket or bed, changing her diaper... and then Jamie brings her back to our room.
I lay there in bed, and they appear in the doorway, where Gisèle grins and says "hi, Mama!" Jamie plops her down on the bed between us, and she'll crawl over the mound of pillows and blankets to give me a big, wet kiss on the lips. She'll then brush her hair out of her eyes with one quick swipe of her hand, and lounge back against Jamie while sucking her thumb. We'll stay in bed, just the three of us, for 5-10 minutes. We'll ask her if she slept well ("Yeah!") and whether or not she'd like waffles for breakfast ("and DIP!?"), and she'll go through a few choruses of "No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed!" Anytime she has something she particularly wants to tell me, she'll lean in REALLY close to my face to emphasize her point.
After a while, she's ready to go play, and she'll tell us that - "Play? Color?" We'll remind her about the waffles ("DIP!"), and then it'll be time to get out of bed and start the day.
I love weekend mornings. :)
Friday, July 24, 2009
Weekend Mornings
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She's so adorable :) I had a small panic attack yesterday looking at a friend's pictures of her 6 year old - Madeleine's going to grow up and get bigger! But, after reading this little story, I feel much better about what's to come :) Love you! (P.S. What's "Dip!?")
I love it! We still have those special moments with Isabella - she loves to get in the middle of us on the our bed and talk. It's one of my favorite times of the day! She may be a teenager but she's still our little girl. I hope it stays this way for a long, long time!
Those are some precious moments. I know we'll never forget these sweet years...
Andrea -- For G, dip is anything that can be construed as dip. In this case, it's syrup that she dips her waffles into. Dip (in general) is one of her favorite foods, no matter what it's made of!
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