Our Family: My Heart

Thursday, February 19, 2009

My Heart

Can I just tell you how much I LOVE my little Ben? He has the sweetest heart and is so sensitive and nice! I know I have mentioned this on the blog before but he has been so sensitive to me during my pregnancy and always offering to help me and is constantly reminding me to not lay on my back or bend over...so helpful!
But the other day, I was having an "emotional" day (you know what I am talking about) and I was just having a bad day...out of nowhere Ben says to me "Mom, my heart belongs to you"
My heart melted...I was speechless. Than he said "Do you know what that means? It means that my heart loves you" and I told him "My heart loves you too".

Seriously, those are the moments that make all this hard mothering stuff worth it...I love that kid!

13 comments:

Courtney said...: I NEED "a Ben" at my house! How CUTE is that!?; February 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM
marcee said...: Oh, Kyle- that is way too precious! What a sweetie! Just like his namesake... :); February 19, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Jess said...: Oh my goodness. I'm speechless! That is so adorable - and he's adorable in this picture.; February 19, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Anonymous said...: Kyle, that is seriously that cutes thing ever.; February 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM
Ashley said...: monday works great maybe i could plan for it to be at the same time as pipers dr. appt. so i dont have to bring him. let me know if you really want him to come play. i love the ben stories he really is so tender-hearted.; February 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM
Amy said...: What a sweet boy! I love the heart pizza and cake that you made for Valentine's Day...my kids were just lucky to get heart ice cubes:(
I hate that since you are private I don't see when you update your blog...am I doing something wrong? or is that just how it is?; February 21, 2009 at 8:01 AM
Jess ♥'s Joel said...: So sweet! What a cutie!; February 24, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Arian said...: Wow, that is beyond adorable! What a sweet little guy. Hope you are feeling ok. You are in the 30's now so it should fly by, right?! :); February 24, 2009 at 11:26 AM
Sara Hollobaugh said...: That is so sweet!! Hopefully one day Payten will be that sweet!; February 24, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Julie Freeman said...: That is seriously so sweet. What a cute little guy! Calvin is that way to me about this pregnancy and it is so special!; February 24, 2009 at 12:59 PM
Tyler and Erika Hanks said...: So sweet that Nate is! What a fun night you guys had for Vday, so clever!; February 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM
Wendi and Eric said...: I love those Mommy moments!; February 24, 2009 at 4:37 PM
The Weights said...: That is amazing!!! Those moments are priceless!! I agree that those moments are what it is ALL about!! What a cutie!!; February 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM

Things that make me SMILE...

Benson went to get Lucy out of her crib and Nate was in the crib with her...holding her mobile over her head and said "look dad...I can hold this for Lucy" 1/10

Lucy has the cutest smile...and she scrunches up her little nose! 12/09

All Ben wants for Christmas is a SPY KIT! He is obsessed with it...I ask him who he wants to spy on and he told me "you!" 12/09

November 2008: Ben had a paper in his folder from school that said "Ask me to help you with a chore tonight" I read it to him and quickly snatched it out of my hand and threw it in the trash and said "that is for NEXT year"

November 2008 : I ask Ben what he wanted to be when he grew up he said "a daddy with a 100 babies AND a grown up human"

November 2008: I ask Samantha what she wanted to be when she grows up she said "a mommy" and I said how many babies do you want to have and she said "how ever many babies you have, mom"

October 2008: Nate climbs into bed with me with a pirate patch on and says "Mom, I'm a pirate treasure"

July 2008: Nate sees cupcakes at the store and says "Nate WUVVVS tup-takes"

Words to Live By...

"The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make....I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less." -- Anna Quindlen