Laughter from a Mother's Journal

I recently discovered wrinkled pages of a journal I had kept while our daughters were young.

Entry: July 1986

S-Fights bedtime. Drags her blanket and Kitty Kat "suitcase" (also known as a pillowcase) around behind her. She tells everyone, her name is Sissy or Poot McGoot. She loves her chocolate milk. She does the boogey-woogey, a frantic dance in front of the glass fireplace screen, where she watches her reflection. Her favorite color this month is yellow. She loves to watch Sesame Street. She puts on a "Happy Face" (a very BIG smile) when commanded to do so. She tells us that "At At" is coming to visit (we are assuming this is an imaginary friend). :-)

M-Tells everyone her name is Lil Mis. She blames everything that goes wrong or causes trouble on her sister Sissy. Loves to run around saying, "Yelp! Yelp!" (Just like Ernie on Sesame Street). We call her Safety Sam as she makes everyone put on their seatbelts before the car leaves the driveway. She also verifies that everyone's doors are locked. Some mornings when she doesn't want to get up, she tells us she is just too chubby to crawl out of the bed. :-) She keeps us laughing with her jokes and antics.

K-Tells everyone her name is Ceeee. She loves her Snuggle Bunny. She is still waking up at night (Mom and Dad are very tired). She loves to dance and usually does whatever she is told. She loves to suck her "dumb dumb" (also known as a thumb). She loves to eat and even eats her big sisters' leftovers. Her favorite thing to do is to go wake up her "big sisters" in the morning. She adores them.

Entry: December 1986

S-Loves everything about Christmas. Says she wants 3 Cabbage Patch dolls from Santa. Just started wearing "big girl pants" to bed. She enjoys coloring and playing with her Play Dough. She watches "Lassie" on television and "Mr. Rogers". She calls Christmas wrapping paper, "HO HO Wallpaper" -- that makes perfect sense to her. She had tubes placed in her ears and she told us her doctor wore his pajamas at the hospital (we are assuming a reference to his scrubs).

M-She has alot of nicknames for herself -- Emma, Jane, Emma Bombs. She has become VERY dramatic. A true drama queen in the making. She is always fixing someone's hair. She likes to do whatever little sister K is doing. She likes to go to "school" (Mother's Morning Out at church). She has learned to get her own ice water out of the refrigerator door and likes to serve ice water to anyone and everyone. She is peddling well on her tricycle.

K-She has really grown and does she ever have some CURLY hair! Learning to go potty like a big girl. She thinks she is 3! Still sucking her "dumbie" (thumb) and holding onto Snugglie. She knows the names of her body parts, colors, and is pasting well. She is starting to pretend. She calls herself Curly Annie and asks her sisters to call her that. Says "nite nite" and blows kisses to all of us.