Faces

Don't you remember being younger and wondering how DOES mom know all that she knows? Isn't it funny being a mom now and just "knowing" things? I giggle about it sometimes.

How do we know what a "poopy face" looks like? We just do. We have seen it TOO many times. Bubba has a definate look about him when he has to go poo. He looses color in his face, his eyes go blank and you can tell, he is concentrating really hard on NOT letting that poo come out. HOWEVER, if you say to him "Bub, do you have to go poo-poo?" he always answers no. The other night sitting at the dinner table of ALL places. There is was. The poo-poo face. Even Buggy can recognize it. So the normal routine "Bub, do you have to go potty?" Bubbaboy says "no." I reply with, "well, you look like you do." So Hubs jumps up to persuade Bubs to run to the bathroom and I hear him walking (very slowly and tight cheeked) and say "no! I do NOT have on the poo-poo face". I just had to giggle. Later I asked Bubba, "so, did you go on the potty big boy?" He said, "yes. I poo'd on the potty, Mom." So indeed he DID have the poo-poo face on.

Speaking of faces. I got the best imagine stored in my head before bed last night. As you can see Buggy has lost three of her front teeth ... Last night the final one came out. She is completely toothless in the front. It is so darn cute. Anyway. I do my normal routine of kissing the kids while they sleep before I hit the hay. I go into Buggy's room to hear her sleep talking. "I'm back. I'm back" I just giggled and kissed her on the forehead. Sleeping kids are one of the most precious things in the world. They are so beautifully peaceful. Anyway, I giggled a little more as I looked at her and she gave me the BIGGEST toothless grin and said "I'm back" followed by "why are you laughing?" It was the cutest face, grinning at me with no teeth, innocently looking up at me with sleepy eyes. I went to sleep with a precious image in my head.

I hope these images of them are FOREVER embedded in my heart. I hope that I have captured enough on camera to remind me.