here are a few Bentley quotes to start off your friday:

-EVERY night before going to bed "goodnight, mom" "goodnight, bentley" "no say goodnight, make me sad. say take a little snooze." (the whole phrase is really said as all one word)

-he is completely done nursing (the transition went great (yay!) for him & me. we just slooowly quit!) last night he says "mama deedew milk is all gone. i go to farm & buy more milk, put it in mama tummy & have more deedew!"

-cousin jedidiah has been over a few days this week. B woke up from his nap & ran out into the living room (eyes still half shut & extreme bedhead, mind you) "diah booboo, i have your toy. booboo baby here are your toys!"

-"dis guy on my shoe is MICHEAL jordan. basketball girls teach me that"

a happy helper (and i love it!)

motherhood.

i have never questioned our decision to have me be a stay at home mom.
it's my dream job.
i love it.
but it does seem that in todays world it is questioned, or thought of as you not doing anything.
i read this article and it was super refreshing & helped me regain some perspective.

"Live the gospel in the things that no one sees. Sacrifice for your children in places that only they will know about. Put their value ahead of yours. Grow them up in the clean air of gospel living. Your testimony to the gospel in the little details of your life is more valuable to them than you can imagine. If you tell them the gospel, but live to yourself, they will never believe it. Give your life for theirs every day, joyfully. Lay down pettiness. Lay down fussiness. Lay down resentment about the dishes, about the laundry, about how no one knows how hard you work."

go here for the whole article. 

quotes.

joe is my 8 year old brother.

while i was getting him a snack, he came up behind me & gave me a quick back massage.
"well at least your back is still skinny!"


i was showing my stomach to joe & my sister, she was very interested...he...
"ummm, anna, could you put your shirt back down, it's kinda freakin me out"

i am loved.

                                        {last summer: pre-preg}

p.s.

i hope you got to watch this...

"Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this one. He's got to. I don't see how a pumpkin patch can be more sincere than this one. You can look around and there's not a sign of hypocrisy. Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see."