Friday, May 8, 2009

Uh, Happy Mother's Day...

Joel came home from preschool yesterday with two laminated placemats that he had made. One was for me for Mother's Day and the other was for Zac for Father's Day. At the bottom of the placemats there was a little card where the teachers had written Joel's dictation to them of why he loved us.

Mine said, "I love my mom because she makes me pizza, spaghetti, and macaroni and chesse". That's right. I'm a culinary genius, thank you very much.

Seriously?! That's all of the good he has to say about me? It's ironic that his favorite thing about me is one of the things I feel guiltiest about as a mom. Is it too often to have pizza and mac & cheese weekly? I promise I give them vegetables too!

And Zac's card said, "I love my Daddy because he plays with me and makes me laugh." Uh, I'm not jealous or anything but I think I do that too :). At least he didn't say, "What Daddy?" (See this old post...).

In addition to these very sentimental placemats, Joel had a little M-Day program yesterday morning at school. All of the moms were in the classroom and the kids lined up in front of us to do their thing.

This darling little girl next to him kept pointing to her mom and smiling when she was singing the song about how wonderful moms are, as if to say, "Yep, Mom, that's you! You're the best!"

Joel maybe sang two words and was just sort of looking around like he had something better to do. At that point, I didn't feel so bad that while I actually remembered to bring the video camera, I didn't realize the battery was dead. It probably wasn't a moment we needed to record for posterity anyway!

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