Precious Gems

Thanks to each lady who sent or gave permission to include these wonderful gems in Heart to Heart!  Please send more!  I hope all of you moms (and grandmas) are jotting down all the cute kids' quotes from your children and grandchildren!  The dullest pencil is better than the sharpest mind when it comes to remembering cute kids' quotes, so please do preserve these precious gems!  For now, just scribble them down with the child's name and the date, and save them in an envelope.  Then years later, type them to put in booklet form to give your first child as he/she is about to become a parent.  It will be a priceless gift!  I have compiled all the cute quotes and baby book information from our three children, and so far have given a notebook with all this information to our two oldest children.

 

Andrew, 7, thought it would be a good idea to organize his room today by labeling where to put everything. He did this on the walls, toy bins and dresser drawers with a permanent Sharpie black marker! Thankfully Daddy was able to get most of it off with a little elbow grease and Magic Eraser tonight! - Stefanie Flack in Delaware

My 20 month old son, Logan, stuffed my hair dryer, curling iron, 2 straighteners, 2 hair brushes, make-up bag and his sippy cup ... in the toilet. One straightener is ruined, the other didn't get wet somehow...thank goodness!! Make-up is ok, my bag is waterproof...and only one corner was actually in the water. Little booger!  I took pictures of it, and he sat down in the floor and started saying "cheese!" :)  Needless to say, this isn't my best hair day! ~ Amanda Clarke in Virginia

On Christmas Day: Using their new doctor kits, Kylie and Rebekah, both 3, give baby Jesus His first postnatal exam. That's POST NATAL, not POST NASAL as I almost wrote since many of us are walking around with drippy noses. I'm sure the girls will try to fix those as well. They are doctoring everyone in sight!  Yet another cutie in the ongoing saga of my three-year-old granddaughters acting out the nativity story: Kylie, posing as a very pregnant Mary, goes into labor. While lying on the floor in pain with Rebekah (Joseph) looking on, she cries out, "Come out, come out, wherever you are!" ~ Eileen Rife in Virginia, www.eileenrife.com   

We've been talking a lot with Karis, 2, about Christmas being Jesus' birthday, so we made a birthday cake for Jesus today.  After she finished icing it, she told Grandma excitedly, "And when Jesus comes, we will sing Happy Birthday!!!!!" - Meagan DeLong in North Carolina  

Question: How do you know you are in for a long road of parenting?  I could have many answers, but my most recent is this from Caroline (4 yrs.) - "Mom, I can't wait to go to college so I can get married and stuff." ~ Jessica Gurley Jones in Virginia

My almost 4 year old asked me today what the name of his wife is going to be. I told him I didn't know and he responded that it wasn't nice to keep secrets. He then asked if we could go find her after his nap. ~ Anonymous

Our 6 year old grandson, Justin, was telling us a few months ago that his family was going to get a "Rescue Dog!"  We imagined a large dog used to rescue people from harm and danger.  Soon we learned that they were going to rescue a dog from a shelter!  This new dog, Bailey, is a cute beagle "mix" puppy and loves his new family.  When Justin is playing in another room, away from his two year old sister, Ryan Elizabeth, Bailey nips at their heels until he has them right beside each other.  He always wants the whole family together in the same room!  Then they learned from the vet what Bailey's other "mix" is!  Here all along he was just following his God-given instinct as an Australian sheep herder or cattle dog! ~ Lois