Things I Love

...and don't want to forget because it seems it may be a while before I have to write (another) top ten list on these three:

10. Speed discovered the joy of helium balloons and vaulted ceilings recently.
9. Sunshine said to me this morning, when I was pulling out the pick to comb out her hair: But I LIKE my pops!! (pops = puffs...and that's the part I love)
8. If someone says the word "light", Chickadee starts a little dance because she wants me to sing a Christian rock song about "being in the Light."
7. There is a prayer (actually several) at church that include one girl's name. Speed gets pissed if I don't resay the prayer substituting HIS name where the actual word should be.
6.  Sunshine has become Stubby's best friend. She snuggles him and he tolerates it so well. She often says things like "We LOVE Stubby, don't we, Mommy?"
5. Chickadee about has a (happy) screaming fit just because I throw her washrag at her from up by the curtain rod. The anticipation kills her every single night.
4. Speed is currently obsessed with a pair of "basketball pants" he owns. They are super thin and not always appropriate for the cold Austin winter we've had, so they only sporadically show up in his drawer (thereby avoiding wardrobe battles in the morning). The other day, he wore them to a friend's where he played basketball with some big boys. He "got a basket" (read: his ball hit the bottom of the net). When I said "Good job!" his reply was: "It the pants, Mommy. I do that cuz I got the pants." Magic.
3. Sunshine is the queen of cutting. Every night when we come home, she pulls something, anything out of the recycling and snips it into little teeny pieces to be found on the floor later that night.
2. Chickadee sleeps with a bear ("Bear), a Woodstock ("Bird"), and a musical seahorse ("Horsie"). Every night when I put her in her crib, she arranges them so that when she falls asleep, there are four heads in a row: Bear, Bird, Chickadee, Horsie, without fail.
1. Some of us have already made Valentine's cards for next year because we loved the holiday so much.

It will not be hard to do more Tens when the kids leave, but for now, here's a good stopgap of why they are the perfect kids for today.