Brought to You by the Letter 'C'

For snack time yesterday the kids had cocoa, crackers, and carrots. A great lesson on the letter 'c', totally not planned, snack-time usually involves me grabbing a few somewhat healthy things (cocoa has calcium right!?) and setting them out for the kids to munch on while I try to empty the dishwasher before they finish-I love a good race. Anyways, it was fun to talk about letters, especially since the crackers were Scrabble Cheez-its! I actually bought them for Jory-surprise, surprise. Anything Scrabble, even crackers, he loves.

Caden is in charge of the straws. He likes getting them out of the drawer and putting one in every one's cup...for every meal.

There are few, rare, but wonderful moments when as I mom I'm encouraged that I'm doing something right. (I hope I'm not the only one, but there are many times I doubt my mothering skills and focus on all the things I should be doing differently or better...being a mom is hard). There was a moment like that yesterday. Xander was playing with his Scrabble crackers and said, "Look mom, I found the best word in the world. G-O-D." My heart was full at that moment.

I think I made too much of a fuss about it though, he didn't want his picture taken. That's okay, I feel that way too sometimes.

Hailey didn't really care that there were letters on the crackers, but she sure liked the taste.