Funny Girls!

My babies have cracked me up today several times and I wanted to write them all down so I can remember them. The girls each have their own personalities and are funny in their own ways. Madelyn is more serious, but is more silly when she's being funny. She thinks it's funny to talk about poop (Sometimes I think she might be a boy with all the poop and pee talk). She comes up with really witty, funny things that she doesn't even know is funny sometimes. Meredith is just plain goofy with a touch of orneriness mixed in. Her orneriness puts me in tears sometimes with the goofy things she does and says. Today was a red-letter day in the Rhoda house when it comes to comedians. Here's a little snippet of our day:

Madelyn---I was talking to Aunt Holly via text today telling her how proud we were of her for passing her boards. Madelyn goes and gets out her doctor's mask and comes into my room. She comes up to me as my doctor and says, "Ma'am, you're going to have to have surgery on your ribs." I ask her, "Why?" She says, "Because they are hurting you." She then says, "You will be awake the whole time, but it won't hurt much. I will hold your hand." I ask her why I can't have pain medication for the surgery and she tells me that I just don't get any. WTH!!

Later in the play with her as my doctor, I am a different patient. She comes into my room with her mask up over her eyes this time. She touches my hand and in a very sympathetic voice says, "Today is Surgery without Seeing Day!" She assures me she does it all the time and I will be okay. My face was mortified as she started doing surgery on me blindly. She worked very quickly as she repaired my "swollen goiter" (where she heard that, I don't know). Although my goiter was not in its usual place of the throat, but in my abdomen!

Meredith----The first time she made me really laugh today and beam with happiness was when she told me, "I love you SO much and You're the best guhl (girl) EVER!" Then, not 15 minutes later, she comes into my room with a bowl full of popcorn and says, "Do you want some popcorn, Mama?" I said, "No, thank you." She says, "Yes you do, Mama," as she pops a piece in her mouth. So I say, "Ok, Meredith, I'll take a piece." She proceeds to take the piece she just put in her mouth out of her mouth and sticks it in my mouth. Before I could protest, she says, "Chew real good, Mama!" I guess it wasn't a big deal to her that we were sharing spit with that piece of popcorn.

I have prayed lately for God to slow me down and help me to savor my babies' every moment. I feel like today he gave me an extra special gift with their silliness and precious laughter. What a blessing my babies are to me! Thank you God for every special day and moment.