Thankful Thursday

Today's Thankful Thursday has to be dedicated at least in part to Corilynn. I am thankful for that nutty, orphan haired, sweet little girl. I went to check on her before I went to bed and saw her snuggling her elephant and thought to myself that we just don't have as many sleeping pictures of her as we did of Lyman. So I took a few. Its amazing how wonderfully innocent children can be when they are sleeping. I like to think of them as resting not recharging.I am thankful for Corilynn's crazy matted and wild hair. It doesn't matter how many times we comb it or style it - when she wakes up and really just about anytime - it turns out looking like some street orphan.

When I took this picture - we were just pretending to take pictures "about" each other. I am thankful for this little girl because everyday she makes me laugh and she knows she can get away with anything when she comes up to me and throws her arms around me and dramatically says "I wove you" in her best sign songy voice.

One more thing to be thankful for today - we have a robin's nest just outside our window. Literally if we opened the window we could grab the branches of the tree. Its a perfect 3 feet from the window so the kids can watch all day waiting for the Mommy robin to hatch her eggs. When she flies away occasionally they love to run upstairs to Lyman's room and look down at the 3-4 blue eggs - from up there you can look down into the nest. I took a picture of the nest view from our living room window. I am especially grateful for the fact that "everyone needs to be quiet so we don't scare away the Mommy bird." My rages induced by children's' screeching voices have significantly lowered in their frequency since the discovery of our bird friend's choice of habitat. Thanks Mother Nature - from one cool Mom to another - I owe you one.