Morning Time

Being on bed rest during pregnancy has some perks...really. For example, my husband wakes up early to get my jr. high girl and two grade schoolers off to school while I get to sleep in. Now, the idea of sleeping in isn't great when there are so many things to be done, but, if you can't do those things, tricking your body into sleeping an extra few hours a day gives you less time to be miserable during the day knowing you can't do what needs to be done.

At any rate, sharing our bed with our 2 year old is getting obnoxious, and yet I love cuddling with him in the morning and having a special time alone with him. He usually speaks loving words to me, plays with my hair, and tells me he needs and loves HIS mamma. We sing songs and read a couple books before getting up to help sister Tessa get ready for kindergarten.

At 9:30 am, I woke up with my cuddly two-year-old nestled in my back. As I turned to look at him, my sweet cuddly boy erupted into a cranky dictator shouting out commands. "Where is my Emma, Where is my Noah, Where is my 'Lisbeth, Where is Tessa?"

"Nathan," I cooed, "Emma, Noah, & Elizabeth are at school." "Tessa is watching TV and I can hear daddy in the office working."

"NO," he screamed. "I need my whole family!"

He continued to call out to his oldest siblings refusing to believe that they would go to school without him. However, when Tessa came in to see what all the rucus was, he he immediately calmed as he spied thea chocolate chip cookie she held in her hand. As he reasoned with Tessa to let him have the cookie, and of course won his argument, he decided he'd take the cookie, but not her company to go with it. As I encouraged him to go watch TV with her so I could get up and get him some breakfast, he turned to me and screamed, "This is NOT Family Home Evening! I want to watch TV alone!"

And so I am asking myself, "What happened to the sweet boy who wanted his family 5 minutes ago and now prefers solitude? Not to mention, when did he develop his very good debate tactics?"