I thought I'd write down some funny things about the kids we want to remember.
First, Annicka. She is one funny little girl. Her favorite thing to do right now is to find the most inopportune time to say she loves you. Don't get me wrong...I love it when she does this, but it is always when she should be eating her dinner, or going to bed, or when you are in the bathroom. Almost every night we hear the door creek open and we hear Annie say, "I love you, Mommy and Daddy!" Then she won't close the door until she hears both of us say it back. Annicka is not a good eater and will find any opportunity to get out of her chair to find something to distract herself. Half of the time she'll come up and give one of us a hug, "I love you!" "I love you, too, Annicka. Now go and eat your dinner." She is also the quintessential four year old girl and cries at the drop of a hat. Literally, all it takes is someone to drop their hat and she bursts into tears. "He dropped his haaaaaaat!" Well, maybe it's not that bad, but she does cry about everything. "Mom, Sam looked at me funny!"
Park on the other hand is our little tough guy. If he really gets hurt he'll cry, but it never lasts longer than it needs to and he always does what he can not to. Just tonight he dropped a John Deer tractor toy on his foot. This tractor is not small, either. It weighs a good half pound.
I would cry if it dropped on
my foot. I watched him drop it and I heard him say, "OW!" but that was it. I said, "ouch! Are you okay?" He looked up at me with watery eyes and said, "Yeah." Then he leaned down and rubbed it. "Are you sure you're okay?" "Yeah, I okay." Then later when it was time for bed I found a sliver in his foot. It was red and swollen and so it must have been in all day, maybe longer. So I got the needle and tweezers out and had to dig it out. He screamed, but did his best to hold still. Once I got it out the tears immediately stopped. The thing was a good half inch long and had gone straight in. It wasn't angled at all. His favorite thing to say right now when you are playing with him is, "One more time?" which sounds more like, "wu moh tie?" He also has a lot of Scott's personality. He seems pretty serious when you first meet him. He doesn't say much and just observes. Then once you get to know him he becomes a little prankster and thinks he is hilarious. He already picks on Annicka and does what he can to drive her crazy.
They do get along well, though, most of the time. They love to play together on the trampoline and with the cars. Annicka is really good at letting him play with her and showing him how to do things. Park loves to watch her play games on the computer. And all in all, we really can't complain. We love them to death!
Grandma Great Wilson had an egg hunt on Sunday. All of the grandkids and great-grandkids hunted for eggs at the cemetery near her house and after the egg hunt she collected the specially decorated eggs. Each one had something in them that had something to do with the crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ. Then she talked about her parents who were buried there and how she was looking forward to their Resurrection. It was a fun day!
Grandma Great in her special Easter hat...It's for things like this that my brother BJ and his wife refer to her affectionately as "crazy grandma".
Hunting for eggs with aunt Maureen.
Enjoying the spoils!
