Some things I don't want to forget and one that I do

The one I would like to forget: lice, lots of lice in Kari's thick hair. Ick, ick, ick. Yes, I panicked and scared my daughter and husband. Thankfully, no one else in the family got it, likely thanks to the fact that Kari is so careful to always puts her stuff away in her own room right when she gets home from school--nothing ever out of place. We took care of it (many hours of combing), and we're done with that for now. We figure it must have come from school. I will be on high alert for a while because I do NOT want to do that again anytime soon.

I want to remember Grant and Aubrey buddying up and playing My Little Pony and all kinds of Aubrey-led games. He plays ponies with Aubrey and Star Wars with Joel--very adaptable little brother.
I want to remember Grant's cute little voice (must video more). He's talking all the time, telling us all about how he feeling about everything. I have a difficult time refusing his requests when he asks in his sweet, polite voice and says please with no "l."
I want to remember this often repeated request: "Mommy, p'ease snuggoo wid me."  It won't be long before he no longer has a desire to snuggle with his mama, so I can't refuse. When he storms into our room in the middle of the night, door banging against the wall, and peeks his head over the side of our bed, saying there are monsters in his room and, "P'ease snuggoo wid you," I pull him up into our bed.  He burrows in, falls asleep, and then I carry him back to his bed. It won't last forever.

I want to remember what Aubrey said when I told the kids the Moffat family Disneyland trip was postponed. There were a few tears from the eldest but after we talked through all the positives of waiting until next fall and the reasons (the main reason being Aunt Michelle is having a baby and can't travel @ 8 months pregnant), they calmed down and accepted the reality of the situation. Aubrey got a little smile on her face and said, "They have too much babies!" That made us all laugh. We have the same amount of "babies" that they'll have! Silly girl. :)

I want to remember this strange little accent Aubrey has developed. We have no idea where it came from. Sometime she sounds English, and sometimes she sounds like she's from the East Coast. It's funny.

I want to remember the smile on Joel's face when he's completed a Lego project and when he's finished a difficult level/part on Star Wars Kinect.  I want to remember the big brother smile he has when Grant is wrestling with him, jumping on him, hanging on him, and "hi-YAH!"ing him like a crazy little man. Joel's a wonderful big brother to Grant.

I want to remember the way Grant can fall asleep anywhere, when he's tired. The last photo was taken at 4pm yesterday. He fell asleep sitting up. He's starting to drop his nap but can't quite make it through a day without any sleep, so he often falls asleep late in the day, which means he's up late that night, even if it's just a 15 minute snooze. The pictures below are from a night last week when Grant was literally running in circles at 9:15pm. He stripped down to his nite time pull-up and ran for probably 15 minutes straight.  Some of his happiest times of the day are after 8pm. All the other kids are upstairs in bed, and he's hanging out with us downstairs until our bedtime. We're more tired than he is! It's in the evenings that I most often hear, "Mommy, p'ease snuggoo wid me!" Greg says he's been displaced. :) It's temporary, my love, just temporary displacement. If Grant can make it til 6:30pm, he's down for the night, so that's what we're working toward.