This morning I was helping Ty, our eight-year-old son, do his third grade schoolwork. I broke a cake donut in half and dipped the end of it into my coffee. Ty asked me what I was doing and I told him. He looked at me as if I was nuts and responded, “Are you some sort of cop or something?” I laughed really hard. I’m not sure where he picked up on that stereotypical idea of a police officer. Perhaps it was from watching television.

Amigrace our 15-month-old daughter has discovered her bellybutton. During bath time or diaper changes, she repeatedly puts her finger in her bellybutton and then giggles. Her eyes get really wide and she grins from ear to ear.

Ali our four-year-old loves to have me rock her to sleep at night. I can either rock her for 10 minutes, or argue with her for an hour about going to bed. You guessed correctly if you figured I chose the rocking. She isn’t shy about asking to have her needs met. She loudly says, “Aunt Julie, can you rock me to the deep?”

Ty is learning to recite the books of the Old Testament for AWANA. He can rattle them off quite well, but there is a slight problem with his enunciation of the book of Proverbs.
He quickly lists them, “…Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalm, PROBLEMS, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Isaiah…”

Ali was putting on my makeup one morning and I said, “You will look like a hoochie.”
She looks at me, grins, and says in a perky voice, “Hoochie Momma?” Then she shares the following information, “My mom is a hoochie momma, at least that is what my daddy called her.” I told her mom about it and we all got a good laugh over it. She still calls my husband Uncle Daddy, which I think is really cute.

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Photo Credit Julia Fuller 2007