Yesterday before I came over, her four year old, Dax said, "Mom, who is coming over to keep us company tonight?"
I like to think Dax and I have a special relationship. When he was 2, Emily and her husband went to Hawaii and for a couple of days I kept him at their house. That was my first experience with motherhood. I have NEVER been so tired in my life. When Dax went to bed at 8; I went to bed at 8. When Dax took a nap for 2 hours during the day; I took a nap for 2 hours during the day. I remember Emily trying to Skype one night around 8:30 but Dax and I were already in bed snoozing.
Needless to say my best memory of keeping Dax was when he woke up and started crying out. (This was not normal for him.) I went to his bed and his aquarium had stopped working-see picture below. Dax loved this thing. I realized it had run out of batteries and I had to fix it or neither of us were going to sleep that night. I couldn't get it unhooked from the crib so I crawled into the crib with him. Then we had to find batteries, a screw driver, and of course figure out HOW to actually then put it back on the crib-which of course I crawled back into the crib to do. As soon as the aquarium started working again, Dax said, "Good, Farra." I knew we could both go to sleep.
So, back to last night....Dax is now 4. I was coloring with him and his sweet sister. This is our exact conversation.
Dax: "Sarah, I like your Mercedes."
Sarah: "I like your van, Dax."
Dax: "You mean my Honda Odyssey?"
Sarah: "Yes, your Honda Odyssey."
Dax: "Thank you Sarah. That is very kind of you. Am I scribble scrabbling?"
I love how our conversation has changed in two years. It went from--"Good, Farra" to "That is very kind of you." How kids change.
