Date Night: For Three Please
It's been a long couple of weeks. I am beginning to see I will probably be saying that for quite some time. These past few weeks have brought new parenting challenges with Gwenna... Evidence can be found fading from Amelia's cheek right now, some lovely teeth marks :/
As we pray and continue searching for the right way to tame so if her wild, we decided to start with a date night, just the three of us. When I first told her about it, she wanted to go to Nana's with Amelia and let us go on a date. She was soon persuaded otherwise.
After dinner at home, R let her pick four handfuls of change out of the change jar and put them in her purse to buy something. She paid for two rides on a car at the mall and paid for over half of her new deer earrings.
It was a really beautiful time for us and it is something we will be doing again! So special getting to focus on her little self!
Here are a few of the things she said:
Conversation 1:
Gwenna: mom you are beautiful(pronounced beaufuful). Tell her dad! Tell her! (He had told her to tell me earlier in the evening)
R: oh yes mommy is beautiful!
Me: you're quite handsome yourself
G: and me SO beautiful too! So beautiful!
Conversation 2:
G: I see the moon!
Me: yes it's so beautiful! Who made the moon?
G: God did.... Does the moon live in tacoma?
---Please comment and share what you've done to help ease the transition of gaining a sibling! ---
Frozen Yogurt!
These next few are a blur, but Gwenna is most of the time...
She is looking way too grown up!
The earrings:
It may seem impossible and it may be impossible just yet, but we always made sure to spend 20 minutes of alone time with Samantha (and now we do it we Sophia, too). It is at roughly the same time everyday, so they know it is coming. We set the timer and they get to decide what we do. It has been incredibly helpful. They know it's coming, they look forward to it, they plan out what they want and it makes all the tough sharing mommy -throughout the day because they know their alone time is coming. This, in addition to special outings every once in a while...
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