For the amount of fighting that my little ones do, when the loving moments happen they really shine.  My little one was very sick yesterday and threw up all over in the car.  The wind was whipping and I did not want her to sit in a wet mess so we had to take off her close.  The girls had recently been fighting and at a moments notice my oldest pulled herself together and helped keep sister warm with body heat.  When we got home I had to clean the car, the child, unload the groceries and put them away... so I of course was frazzled beyone belief, add to that getting the yucky clothes washed and in the machine before they made the whole house sour.  In my moment of chaos I was looking for the kids so that I could bathe my sicky and I found her already in the tub with bubbles and smiles.  My oldest took it upon herself to give sister a bath.  I was brought to tears at how much she helped out.  This gave me the chance to get all messes cleaned up and stuff put up.  She even dried her off, put on her pullup and warm jammies and had her lay on the couch.  She basically doctored and mothered her all together.  So so sweet.

This love did not stop there, we had more messes of the other sorts come later and had to bathe her again.  Once the night was through she had 4 baths total... it was a very yucky night.  My oldest even gave her an extra bath out of the whim because baby was feeling cold.  The night went farely smooth and there was lots of snuggling and hugging go on.

Little bit is still feeling a tad yucky today, but nothing like what happened yesterday.  I am very blessed that my girls understand what it means to help when someone is ill.  I could not have been happier.

Now on another note a new game that has been entertaining all:  a friend of ours was playing with the girls and decided to hang a tennis ball that was on an elastic string from the doorway.  He then showed the girls how to practice hitting it with a racket.  The next day they discovered how to shoot it from all different angles.  All the kids have been entertained with the bouncing ball.  Hanging it from different heights has had different games created.  So much fun.  And to top it off daddy got in on the action.  Lining the kids up and tossing the ball back and forth somehow led to lining up bottles of various stuff across the room and aiming to knock them down.  I could not help but try myself and it was not as easy as I thought.  The ball comes back real fast and you have to learn to duck and cover and catch all at once.  So this has gone on most of the morning.  Hand eye coordination 101!!!!

Just a glimpse into what happens around here when we get bored hehehehe.

Check out this website that someone posted on one of my disscusion boards.

www.earthocean.tv   this has so many cool videos and photos and lesson ideas.

Enjoy