Giving Thanks

I know that it's still two weeks till Thanksgiving, but I just have to give a little thanks. Today we went to the park near our house. Tate just amazes me more and more everyday. He and Alex were playing catch and he was throwing that ball good and trying his best to catch it. He's also suddenly come out of his shell. He used to be terrified of going fast or high. Now he suddenly has courage to go down the "big" slide or swing "super high" on the swings. And he rides his bike like he's been doing it for months. He's also so sweet to his sister. He protects her and helps her and (most of the time) they get along like the very best of friends. It's just the little things he does; like when he says it's okay that I still call him baby doll even though he's not a baby. Or when he says that he's a volunteer firefighter just like dad and that when he gets big he's going to drive the fire truck. There are a million other things I could write. He's getting so big and not so much my baby any more. I told him tonight though, that even though he's a big boy now that he'll always be my baby. And my Allie it so sweet. She has such a funny personality. She can hold her own, and in a neighborhood full of little boys it's a good thing. She loves playing with whatever Tate is playing with, but the one girlly thing that she loves is her baby dolls. She steals the hand towel off the oven door and wraps her baby in it while she rocks her and pats her back. She loves to come up behind me or Alex when we're down on the floor and give us a hug. And she'll rub her bunnies ears on my check because that's what she loves to do with her bunny. If you ask her "where's you're smile?" she'll wrickle her nose and squint her eyes shut and show all seven teeth in the funny smile ever. She loves having all of us close together and wrestling with her brother. She's growing up so fast though. The other day she had a sucker out of her halloween bucket and after a little while I didn't see her with it any more so I asked where is was and she walked me to the garbage and showed my her sucker stick in the garbage and then looked at me like "duh, mom it's where it's suppose to be". I love both my kids so much. It makes me want to have 10 more just like them (no I'm not pregnant nor am I trying to get pregnant yet). I am so thankfull for my children and my husband and so many other things that I could never name all of them. I am so blessed!