On Marriage A few weeks ago, Brigham and I had a conversation about remarriage after untimely spousal death (one of my worst fears--being replaced and forgotten by my tiny kids).
Brigham reassured me that he would not remarry. "But you would, I understand that. You are young and the boys are so little; you should remarry. Just don't remarry right away."
"No, Alexandra. I really would not. I mean, I would have girlfriends and everything, but I am not getting married again!"
So the conversation went from sweet to funny, and now, after weeks of thinking back over that it, hurtful. Brigham laughs at me and insists he was kidding. (Ha-ha, as Will now says after confessing to doing something against the rules.)
On Self-Love
We hosted some friends for the long weekend in September. The 6 year old girl had made a valentine for her father, which she left in the kitchen after they departed. Andrew found the paper heart and was immediately curious about it.
"Brinley made that for her daddy," I explained.
"Did she make it for me, too? I think maybe she made it for me, too." Pause, during which I don't answer. "Why does she love me so much?"
On Sleep-Deprivation
Will has made a habit of waking up at 4am on the dot. I am sure that our response only reinforces the behavior: one of us (brigham) gets up and brings him, still screaming, out of his crib and into our bed. He immediately rushes for me, hugs me and kisses me and declares repeatedly, "Hi, Mommy. I love you so much." It says something about the state of affairs around here that this actually does get annoying, even the repeated lip-kisses between declarations of affection. This morning, however, he did not stop screaming once he was in our bed. He thrashed and cried and warned us against rubbing him or singing to him. Our threats to return him to his crib eventually worked and he went back to sleep. When we both woke up at a more reasonable hour, I asked Will about his behavior.
"Why were you so mad last night, Will?"
"Because I just get so grumpy about it," he responded reasonably.
"Yes, but why? Why are you so grumpy?"
"Because I'm bad to daddy. Haha." Smiling. He is so sweet.
7 comments:
such a great post - i love it! so funny. i can't believe will is talking that much! so articulate and cute.
It is lucky that Will is so loveable. And Andrew. And Brigham. You are surrounded by boys that love you. What a blessing!
Those are some great stories. Andrew will certainly find many (real) unwanted admirers before long, I'm sure!
i dont know what your family would do without you! it's very obvious how much they all adore you. cute little boys!!
That picture of Andrew is so cute. So fitting for the story.
Haha.
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