dee doe

there are all these little things i think i won't ever ever forget about my kids, and then i do!  last weekend i took grahamy and leah out to see the birds and leah found a stick and handed it to me and started singing, "dee doe, dee doe" and wanted me to join in and i just couldn't figure out what she was doing.  Then i remembered that the last time we had been out there on a walk, a month before, we had picked up sticks and carrying them along like our staffs had sang the song from peter pan, "following the leader the leader the leader, following the leader wherever he may go.  dee doe, dee doe, dee doe diddy doe, dee doe"  then she picked up her little stick and marched down the board walk singing just as loud as she could.  and if she wasn't holding her stick she needed to hold my hand. but not my whole hand, just my ring finger on the right and my pointer finger on the left. and every time i held her hand she'd tell me "sanks" (thanks) in a quiet little voice.

graham used to always say, "just a tine-a bit" (tiny bit) when he wanted something.  can i just have a tine-a bit of a nanna, peeeeease?" all the kid ever wanted was just a tine-a bit.  he always likes to have a plan these days.  he wants to know what's gonna happen at night time and tomorrow and next week and at least twice a week he asks if it's christmas yet and if santa "who is just so nice mom, he broughts us all presents!!!" is coming tomorrow maybe?  and when he talks about tomorrow he always has to say "in morning time, in morning time, in morning time is santa coming?" or whatever he's asking about, but he always says in morning time three times.  kinda like this funny little tick he has.  and he still says "amen" whenever we finish a book.

and maybe later i will write about the kid with a lisp who couldn't say his R's who told me the other day at the park how stupid my voice was.  i wanted to laugh and kick him at the same time.  some kids!