Sunshine Day

Brian and I always laugh that with little kids, you can tell what kind of a day you're all going to have within the first five minutes of the wee ones waking up.  Somedays, the fuss overtakes you immediately - other days, the sass is remenicint of when you yourself were a teenager (and then you secretly feel sorry for your own parents for this type of treatment you dished out).  

But other days, days like today - you all wake up - and each one of you in the household just feels in synch with the other.  There are smiles all around, the coffee is just right, everyone says "please" and "thank You" without being reminded, you can just tell it's going to be a good day! 

I got to wake up this morning to the sound of Elise laughing with Brian - which is one of my favorite sounds! As I turned over towards Brian's side of the bed, it was Owen who was sleeping next to me.  That is always a pleasant surprise, Owen sleeping - because most of the time when he joins us in our bed, he kicks and takes over! How someone 42 inches tall (or thereabouts) can take over a king sized bed I do not know, but it happens! 

Now, we're planning on going to a farm to find apples because Owen is begging me to make him applesauce with cinnamon....sounds like a good day to me! During all of this, Elise is just smiling at her brother and following me around, laughing and making new noises that she hopes I'll repeat to her! "Peep"

Off to the farm!