You can pray for me, and Ash this weekend. Tomorrow I am flying to a different (but beautiful) city for a conference by myself! To be real, I am excited and not excited. Make sense? I always get a little apprehensive when I leave my babies but am glad to be forced to have some time to myself. Ash has complete guardianship while I'm gone with the help of Anne Marie and Chris, and, well, everyone else on our team :) It's amazing all the little things that the daddy's don't know about day to day schedules with the kids. I'm sure he'll do great though. He's the best dad.
On another subject, 26 month old Mallory said some really cute things today and I want to remember them...
When I went into her room this morning as she woke up I asked, "Mallory, what do you want to do today?" She responded, "I want to go swim!" Then I asked, "What else would you want to do today?" Response, "I want to go to Micah's house!" (Both of which we obviously couldn't do)
When we were out today heading to a supermarket there were the typical people in public trying to get her attention, touch her, get in her face, etc... She always responds with a bossy "No!" By the way, I am trying to figure out how to approach this response with her. So far, nothing has worked. Anyway, they usually laugh and say "No, hahahhahah", in return. But this particular time she looked at me and said "I be shy, I be shy" which comes from her hearing me say, "She is being shy" when she completely ignores the taunting.
I asked Mallie today, "Mallory, do you want mommy to have another baby?" She replies, "uh huh". (Which by they way has absolutely NO meaning :) I say, "do you want mommy to have a baby girl or baby boy?" She replies, "I want Haynes." (I asked this at 2 different times during the day and both times the answer was exactly the same)
On our way home from the supermarket she made the comment, "Mommy, I don't want to go home right now." I think this may be her longest sentence yet.
Other daily phrases:
"Mommy, you okay?"
"That's my di di!" (word for younger brother in Chinese)
"I need medicine, I'm sick."
"I want my bitamin"
"I wanna watch a mooovie, I wanna pick."
She has a fit to push the button in the elevator every time, by herself! She wants to put her shoes on by herself. She opens the front door by herself and yells, "comin!" as she is running. She is almost obsessed with what character is on her diaper. I can't remember what Pamper diapers are like in America (they may be the same) but the Chinese diapers have cartoon animals on the front. She pretty much demands the tiger everytime. Although lately I've made a good fuss about some others such as koala bears, lion, kitty cats, and sometimes she will be okay with that. So funny!



