No, YOU spell it!

Jack has been very interested in spelling lately. Or rather, Jack has lately been very interested in spelling. He actually knows how to spell halliburton because he frequently sees it on Jeremy's truck and coveralls.

Sweet enough, I'd say.

Me: (after saying something regarding Jeremy) You know, Jack, Daddy is my best friend.
Jack: Evie's my best friend. (Looks at Evie) You're the best, Evie.

I want my baby back, baby back, baby back...

My mom kept Evie for a couple of days this past week. I was having a hard time letting my mom keep her for very long because I knew I would miss her, but I never really thought of how much Jack would miss her. I am very grateful to my mom for keeping Evie, but Jack is almost more difficult to keep when Evie is gone. It's like he didn't know what to do with himself. His room never got messy because he didn't want to play in his room, or Evie's for that matter. Finally, yesterday morning he said "I miss Evie. We need to get her." Fortunately I had already made plans with my mom to pick her up then, so I said "OK." We met Mom and Sonny in Longview. When Jack and Evie saw each other there was much joy and kissing and hugging. I had the kids all out of their car seats while I did some rearranging. I put Jack in his car seat first and as I went to retrieve Evie from Sonny, I heard Jack from the back of the van in a desperate crying voice "we need to get Evie! we need to get Evie!" I looked at him and said "of course, sweetheart, we're taking Evie home with us." After I had Evie fastened in, I went to get Charlie from my mom, and Jack started crying again "We need to get Charlie!!" It was really very touching how he was so anxious about our family being separated again.

Jeremy has been working on a weird job the past few days, so the past couple of nights have been hard with just me and the kids. It was a bit of a shocking thrust into this new type of motherhood-- seeing as yesterday was my first day alone with all three kids. Tonight was better and I really enjoyed watching Jack and Evie chase each other around, laughing, and then watching them both so excitedly run over to Charlie and kiss him every once in a while. You know, there's not much that is easy about having three children this close together, but, my gosh, it's worth it.