3 Men & A Little Lady: {Our Angel}

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

{Our Angel}

Kenny is in the bishopric at church, which means he sits up on the stand, leaving me to wrestle my 4 kiddos during sacrament meeting each Sunday. My greatest fear with his calling wasn't the time spent away from us for meetings, but the hour and twenty-minutes of church where I would have to keep my kids quiet and reverent by myself. I prayed that I would be able to handle this task at hand and the Lord did listen to my prayers. He sent to my aid, Sister Salyer! She is an amazing woman who loves my children, is patient, and full of surprises! She came & sat in my pew one Sunday and said, "I just love children, would you mind if I sit with you?" She sat with us that day, & I figured there was no way she would come back to sit with us the next Sunday, but to my amazement, she did! She even brought with her individual bags of snacks and activities for each of my kids! The boys were pumped when she pulled out popcorn and rice krispy treats for snacks. It sure trumped my goldfish snack I had brought for them. For activities she brought Mya a little baby doll and bottle and for Owen a collection of Super Hero's! My prayers were answered and since that Sunday, she has continued to sit with me every Sunday and helped me with my kids. Sister Salyer is my Church Angel!

We went caroling at Sister Salyer's house, where she treated us to popcorn balls! She and Owen are the best buddies. He sits on her lap, playing with her jewelry she is wearing, or examining her outfits. One Sunday he started rubbing her legs, asking her what was on her legs, while pulling on her nylons. She told him what they were and he said, "Yah I have some of those too!'

Sister Salyer realized how much Owen loved the toys she had brought him to church & how he is not a good whisperer, so she sent him home with the Super Hero's. She definitely has won him over & now every Sunday morning as we are getting dressed for church all I have to say to hurry him up is, "We better get dressed quickly or some other kids at church will try to sit by Sister Salyer!" He races to put his clothes on. I am so grateful for the sweet gentleness and love Sister Salyer has shown to me and my family. She will always hold a special place in my heart!

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They say the cutest things.....

Mya, my little girl, said in her prayers last night, "Please help us to be strong and healthy like the Hulk!"

Owen almost ran straight into a woman as we entered a dark parking garage. As I told him to watch out, he quickly yelled, "Well she's all black!" Coincidentally she was African American! She was wearing a black dress, which is what he was referring too!

Owen told me today, "You are the best mom I ever had! I love you all the way up to Jesus!" He also loves kissing and told Kenny, "I just want to stay home from school and kiss mom all day!"

Drew lost a tooth at school when he bit into his apple. He felt the tooth inside his mouth as he was chewing and when I asked him about it, he said, "I didn't realize it was mine and I wondered if it was one of the workers!"

While at church, a teacher asked the kids what happened to Jesus right after he was baptized and brought up from the water. Ian enthusiastically raised his hand and said, "He asked for a towel!"

After a long struggle with my boys, to get them inside, bathed, and into bed, I yelled, "I am done, go to sleep!" Owen looked up at me and said, "Mommy I'm sorry you're sad, but the problem is that you don't beat up Drew and Ian. Just beat them up and I will be on your team!"

We are not a family who eats beans, so when Drew went to a friends house to play and eat dinner, he was hesitant to eat the burrito that had refried beans in it. When I picked him up he said to me, "Mom she put mud inside the burrito!"

Aunt Connie pleaded with Owen to shoot his daddy with the gun instead of her and his response, "No, he's the best daddy i've ever had!"

I begged the boys to quit fighting and Drew looked at me and said, "Its not Mothers Day anymore mom!"

Owen got kicked in his "man hood" and said, "Oh, I hurt my Tenders!"

Drew asked this morning, "Mom in 2011 can we get a cat?"

Everytime I feed Mya prunes, Owen comes up to me and says, "Me like chocolate mom!" I give him a bite and his face turns to total disgust.

Owen ran up to me after wrestling the dogs and said, "Me see Cassie's boobies!"

While I was nursing Mya, Drew walked in and said, "Is she done drinking from your boob?" I replied, "No and it is called a breast, thats the proper way to say it." He looked at me puzzled and said, "No thats the Spanish word for it."

Kenny opened the fridge and said, "Something in here stinks." Ian looked at him and said, "Dad, sometimes I toot over there!"

Last night as the boys were saying good night to Mya, Drew looked up at me and said, "Mom, Mya has a boy haircut!"

Drew was reminding me about how when we saw macaws in Hawaii, that one of the macaws was chewing on a woman's hair. He said, about the macaw, "Thats not very nice, it's not choosing the right."

My favorite word Drew and Ian used to say when they were toddlers was, Laddie- for water. I thought it was such a cute word. Owen comes to the fridge and points his little finger and says, "Wa-Wa" for water. So cute!

Last night Kenny went in on a call to deliver a goat and Ian came into our bed. He climbed in and snuggled up beside me, he usually snuggles into Kenny. I asked him why he was snuggling with me and he said, "I can snuggle you because daddy isn't here mom!" He is such a daddy's boy.

Ian is such a daddy's boy. The other night Kenny had to go to the clinic and Ian was sobbing for him for a good twenty minutes because he wanted to go too. When I asked him why he was so upset he replied, "I just want my daddy, he is my favorite boy!"

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As we prepared to go to the Glenwood Springs pool in Colorado with Kenny's four sisters Drew impatiently said, "Come on girls, you're taking too long!" Kenny told him, "Get used to it, this is what men do, wait for girls to get ready."

Much to my dismay I found black ink all over our white sheets on our bed. I of course went straight to Ian and asked very sternly, "Did you write on my sheets with a pen?" With an innocent look he replied, "I was just trying to write my name."

Drew was watching me as I divided my hair into sections with clips to straighten it. He looked up at me and said, "Wow, you look beautiful!" Then when I was completely done with my hair he said, "You're a cute little mommy!"

Ian was dipping his finger in Kenny's contact solution and then touching his eye. I asked him what he was doing and he replied, "Just putting my eyes in mom!"