O and A.

Angus loves for me to lay with him at nap time and at bedtime. He loves to snuggle right in next to me, always taking my hand and interlocking his fingers with mine. Sometimes he lays his soft and fuzzy head on top of our interlocked hands. He wiggles and squirms a lot before he falls asleep, if he falls asleep. But he always finds my hand to hold. There are times when he wraps his arm around me and gently pats and rubs my back. Then he squints his eyes tightly like he is trying to force the sleep to come. Sometimes, it works. He is sweet and I still love to smell his breath.  I mean it, too. When he opens his mouth wide enough, I like to sneak my nose in between his lips before they close. Just like I did when he was a baby, and he is certainly not a baby anymore. His breath smells lovely to me, even in the morning. Despite all his late night screaming, I can not go too long without him nearby. His arms are at the perfect 2 and a 1/2 year old plumpness, I love to squeeze them gently from his shoulders all the way down to his finger tips.

Oscar and I like to wink at each other. He is getting pretty good at it too. Rarely do both of his eyes close during winking anymore. He is becoming a proficient one-eyed-winker. Yesterday I was a parent helper at his pre-school. I got to be in the classroom with him the WHOLE time. It was awesome to be there and observe the goings on and interactions between the children, and the teacher. Any time our eyes would meet we would wink at each other. It made me feel pretty special. Not many things can lift your spirits like winking across the school-room with a cute blue-eyed boy. He still let's me kiss him on the cheek and on the lips. I am grateful for that. There have been increasingly more times that he non-chalantly wipes my kisses off of his cheek. But he is usually very discreet about it, so as to not crush my sensitive "mom" feelings. I always tell him that "mom kisses give you super powers, so don't wipe them off." I hope he remembers that, becuase I know there is truth in it.