happy estelle

at bedtime tonight, estelle stopped me from rocking her, sat up, and looked at a black and white postcard of a toddler laughing on roller skates that has been tucked into her mirror since forever and said, "mama, me, that's me..... happy!"

sister love

lela's verbage is so "on point" it's scary.  she speaks so succinctly and nothing passes over her head.  on that note, in the car, as we were discussing sister pride, i said to lela, "so if someone messes with your sis, they mess with you?"  she says, "if someone messes with my sis, I MESS WITH THEM!"  brilliant.  estelle is one lucky toddler.

lela says, "i know how we can get estelle to race!"  me, "really how?"  lela, "yes, let's get a bunch of babies and their pas, line them up, but take the pas to another end away from them, and say GO!"  cute.   :)

lela makes us laugh!!

january '15

estelle puts on brant's shiny black dress shoes and wears them around our room... lela says, "look mom!  estelle's wearing daddy's tap shoes!"

march '15 

i was checking into our hotel in maui and i was the only person at the counter with two clerks.  lela comes busting in the front of the hotel (i didn't know brant had let her out of the car) and she says, "mom, hurry, we have to go.  daddy has to poop!"

lela in maui, "daddy, do you have a stuffed animal or is mama your stuffed animal?"

april '15

upon putting lela to bed, i said, "goodnight lela, i love you!"  she responds, "goodnight mama.  i love you too.  you'll always have a place in my heart."  :)  she said this again the next night at bedtime.  such a tender soul.