Cruise-mas Eve!

Today is Cruise-mas Eve! The day before our cruise!

I am very scattered and all over the place! I think I am just very excited! Thankfully, I only have to work at one school today, and then I have one tutoring session this afternoon. So I can spend the afternoon with Anna and pick Jon up from school. Then I can PACK! I love to pack. I make all of these lists, and then I check them twice (yes, exactly like Santa Claus).

Jonathan keeps talking about how much he misses Charlie and Jackie, his North Carolina cousins. I claim Lara as my sister, so it makes sense that he thinks they are his cousins. The other day he said, When are Charlie and Jackie coming down? I've been saving up all my wrestling, Mama!

And yesterday he asked again when they were coming. They must be so bored without me, he said wistfully. I think he is bored without him! They have each other, while he just has Anna (not that she isn't fabulous, but Charlie and Jackie just satisfy those wild boy urges: light saber battles, wrestling, screaming, ya know!)

Usually, Jonathan and Anna share the queen size bed in her room. He has his own bed, but never sleeps in it. Occasionally, Anna will be very cranky and difficult at bedtime, and Jonathan just wants to go to sleep so he picks up his blanket and pillow and goes to his own bed. Last night, he told me, I am going to go to my own bed as soon as you finish reading. Will that make you sad? I said, Well, I will miss you during song time, but you can go to your own room if you want to, that's okay. He looked at me, and said, But won't you be sad without me here? I realized that he wanted me to be sad without him there... and told him Yes, Mama would be sad if you leave, but I just want you to get good sleep, so you can go if you need to. He thought for a minute and said, No I think I don't want you to be sad, and he snuggled up next to me and went to sleep. I don't think he ever planned on going to his own room. I think he wanted to make sure that I wanted him there. Silly boy.

Anna's new thing at bedtime is this: I wanna talk about today! And then we start in the morning and she helps me remember the whole day, and everything that happened in order. She has an incredible memory. I can't believe the things she remembers about not only each day, but about things that happened when she was only 2. Sometimes she will bring up stuff that I have not talked about or scrapbooked or anything, it's all her own memory. And I am like, Oh, yeah... I remember that.