Yesterday was Canada Day and Brian and I took the boys to the museum grounds where all the activities were and it hit me. This was the first event type thing I have been to like ever, well since kids, without a stoller. That is like 6 years! I was so nice not to have to push a stroller through the grass and manouver it around people, we just walked around and didn't have to worry about steps or going through narrow doors or anything. It was nice.
The other day our friend Alex was visiting with us at the bottom of our drive way and my boys were riding their bikes around on the street. Atley stops over by us and looks at Alex' belly and asks him,"do you have a baby in your belly?" Atleast Alex wasn't offended, he just answered yes. But after he said yes Atley came over to me all excited and said," mommy he has a baby in his belly." I had a bit to explain later cause all I heard the rest of the evening and the next day from Atley was that when he grew up he wanted to be a mommy.
Atley has been saying quite a few cute things lately. When I asked him what daddy was doing he went and checked and then told me he was putering(on the computer). Or today on the way to superstore he asked me if I was going over the speed lemon. One I though was pretty cute was after the last time he had a bath, which besides tonight I wasn't sure when that was. Anyway, he said, "mommy I am all shinny and clean can I get out now?"
Anthany has been at Grandma and Grandpas since last saturday and when he called the other day he said he was going to go bowling and play mini golf. he sounded excited and he thought it would be alot of fun. he called back after his evening out was over to tell me all about it. he was so excited and told me how he beat grandpa in bowling and almost beat grandma and how mini golf was so much fun but the best thing ever was that they went for ice ream after and he got ice cream in a cone. It sounded like I had deprived the child his whole life and had never given him ice cream in a cone before.
It is amazing how different it is, for me anyway, to spend time with just one child at a time. I am so used to having all three of them all the time. or at least two of them when Anthany is at school. but just one is rare. Brian and I went to edmonton the other day and Atley was at a friends and Anthany was with grandma and grandpa so we just had Alex. I got to see a whole different side of him. A side that isn't always trying to keep up with his brothers or trying to keep his brothers away from him and his stuff. It was ice and I think I will be making more of a concious effort to spend one on one time with each of my boys. Including my husband, I don't remember the last time we had a date.
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