My Gifts from God!

I sure love my little babies!! They continually say the funniest and sweetest things. I want to remember them all!

I'm trying lately to remember how quickly my little ones will be grown and gone. I'm trying to stop and look them in the eye, put my arm around them and say something to make them feel special and loved....for indeed they are both!

I'm trying to hug them more, and focus on the HERE and NOW. It's hard when my mind is so fuzzy and crowded....but HERE is where I am, and where they are - and I don't want to look back years down the road and think, "Where was I? What were they like? Now look at these adults before my eyes! I miss the little years!"

These are the best years of our lives! Days we don't get back. So soon they will be grown. Thank You God, for THIS season, and these three precious kiddos!

Sayings & Moments To Remember....

Nicolas wanted chips. I told him when he was done with his food he could have some. He then cleared all his food off his plate onto the floor & exclaimed "Yay!!!" I told him no, to put them back on his plate to which he replied "Oh No!"

"Mama, did you know, when I take a shower, there isn't any music, so I just sing." - Patrick

"I haven't seen that book - that green one. What is it?" It's a book about raising kids. "From the dead?" - Patrick

Nicolas was whining & fussing about his hair being combed. I was talking to him about how maybe he needed to go to bed, because when people are tired they whine & cry about everything, and out of the blue he said "No! Hap-py!"

Patrick quoted Psalm 139 as "Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your president?" - Patrick

Nicolas called Mimi and Poppi on our toy phone. He said "Pop-pop! Mimi! Oh wow! Eat. Wow! Eat! Bye bye!"

"For he was wounded for our transmissions" - Patrick

Patrick crawled into bed with me & Emma one morning. After awhile he said "She's so cute! I'm glad she was born."

Emma was fussing one day, and Nicolas told her not to worry & cry about the storm (that's what he seemed to think she was crying about! :) ) because he was there! He says that often. "No worry. Me here!" He also tells me "No worry" about things that I'm telling him not to do, like standing in dangerous places......:)

"Daddy, please look at your facebook and see this bug. Bye." - posted with my help on FB along with a picture of a bug that Patrick wanted Daddy to see.

Messy Memories.....Patrick loves to put tape on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. He taped paper on the fireplace and used it as an easel. He also likes to experiment with glue :)

One morning while trying to prepare for an event at my house, my children dropped a brand new toy penguin in the toilet, spilled their C drink 2x, N poured foot powder out all over the bathroom floor and smeared it on his toy piano, Emma spit up on me and the floor and P talked non-stop (or at least A LOT! :) )

Other messy adventures.....coloring on the couch, stabbing people with pretend violin bows, etc.....all compliments of my little 2 yr. old! :)

I called Nicolas a "shopaholic" (he LOVES to shop!) and after asking what one was, Patrick said he was a "Churchaholic" :) They have this joke between them about Sunday nights, when P & J go to Church and N, E and I shop....they say "ME - CHURCH! YOU - SHOP!" mixing it up where it's not correct. Then the other one says "NO! ME - CHURCH! YOU - SHOP!"

James & P went on their fist camping trip a while back. P was so excited he started watching for J an hour before J even gets off work!

"My bones are growing and are owie, so I think it's better to watch a movie." - Patrick ;)

Emma LOVES her brothers. She thinks they hung the moon! ;) Today she was grinning her head off at a VIDEO of Nicolas! (he was in bed. I think she missed them!)

Nicolas just recently started saying Patrick's name! I waited so long to hear it! It is absolutely precious and melts my heart. He says "Pa-chick." But, with that, "Bubba" went bye bye. He never calls him that anymore! :(

Patrick is reading everything!!! He has even started trying (sometimes successfully) to put together words we spell out! Having to watch what I leave around more now!

Patrick Sayings & Memories of our Family

"I sure wonder if Poppi took my old tricycle that was red like this and smashed it and made a scooter...."

Patrick made a "fly trap" ie, his paper plate from lunch with some peanut butter on it & a chip. He wrote "FLY" all around the edges & said "I'm gonna write "FLY" on here, then he'll know it's for him."

"God, Thank You for my scooter. I like it a lot."

"Emma, I love you the best than ALL the sisters in the world!"

"I think spanking is an interesting thing."
Me: "Why do you think that?"
"because I wonder what would happen if you spanked blocks. hard ones."

"....and we put our eyes right close to each other to make four eyes" (I guess talking about one of his siblings & putting his face right against theirs....)

"In Heaven I wondered if people could just open their doors & thank God for their food."

He said he wants Daddy, Mama, Nicolas & Emma etc. to ALL go to Heaven at the same time.

He said sometimes in Heaven he would lay down on the floor of our house & take a nap. (upon hearing that there is no night)

I was changing E's diaper in another room while the boys were eating lunch. I heard a cough and said "Are you guys ok?" both of them responded that they were, then Patrick said "Are you girls ok?"

Singing a song together. Words in the song Nicolas can say are "Jesus" "Heart" "Me" "Day" I find it funny that right when they are singing about all they do being on "display" that Nicolas starts bothering his brother's hat ;)


He was telling me something he told his babysitters (Kathleen & Rebekah B.) and part of it was "....Mimi & Poppi, their names are really Dennis & Grandmerry"

I was explaining to Patrick how a reward system was going to work, and how when we finished it we would do it again. When I finished saying how we'd do it over & over again he said "over & over again until we get to Heaven?!!"

"Sometimes Chick-fil-a has yucky music, but I LOVE it. I'm never going to trade restaurants!"

Patrick was learning about Illinois & the Sears Tower and said "Why is it called the Serious Tower?"

We were talking about things related to picking your nose and Patrick told me: "I used to wipe them on my PJ's, but now I just throw them on the floor so you can
vacuum them."

Nicolas loves to say verses! He can say "Allll" with a hand motion, but he didn't do it here....


In the car one day Patrick said "Emma is doing this (made an up-turned face with nose high in the air & eyes fluttering shut) so she is PROUD!"

James has an owie on his leg, and Nicolas prays the most pitiful, sad sounding prayers for him. They go something like this: (with hands folded & eyes tightly squeezed shut, with a rather hushed & high pitched voice) "Daddy, Daddy, ow, ow, Ah-man" (sometimes he whispers the Amen)


"Bananas Gorilla has SIX WATCHES. Nobody needs that many watches!"

Talking about death & what happens to your body & soul: "....and your spirit goes to Heaven or hell...and your spirit is you?"

"look at that lovely green grass! I want to live in that house!"

"When I drink Juice it makes me SMILE!"

"I love my baby brother SO MUCH!"

(back from when I was preggo with Emma..) he is always watching out for me and telling me I "shouldn't do" such n such "because you're pregnant!"

Calls Nicolas "Little Fix It" & himself "Mr. Fix it"

Nicolas was wanting me to draw "woof woofs" (dogs) and pointing at the paper, Patrick said "He shows you where to make them! That's so CUTE!"

Eating a burger one day, Patrick said: "It tastes like it needs to cook a little bit more, but Thank You!"

About Emma "She looks like Poppi, Mom, with that little bit of hair!"

"Bless you Emma!"

P laid their food on a blanket and said "Camping! So we're gonna burn up our food and eat it, 'cause we're camping!"

"You just need a little love from your elephant!" P said to Emma, giving her a toy elephant of hers.

I asked who wanted to pray at lunch. Patrick said "Me!" and began praying. Of course right then Nicolas got upset that HE wanted to pray and said loudly in the middle of P's prayer "ME!!!" It was a bit humorous to see them "fighting" about praying....

We had not read this story before. He is taking off with his reading!