Sweet forgotten memories

I received an email today from a church member and friend from Columbus. She and her 2 daughters helped us for several summers (a few summers ago) by babysitting for us while we were at work. Natalie really enjoyed those summers and has many fond memories of being there. Her memory is very good so she will occassionally remind me of something from those summers. Unfortunately, my memory is very poor (which, unfortunately, works to the girls advantage sometimes) so sometimes I have to rely on others to trigger some of the sweetest memories(somehow, the bad ones seem to stick with you.) The email I received today was one of those great triggers. Read below - it makes you realize that every detail really does matter when small children are around. Thanks so much Sandra!


Here are a few that we'll always remember especially.

I was using the water hose to wash off the lint off of the concrete that had built up by the dryer vent. Natalie had just arrived and she rushed over to help, took the hose away and said, "I want to help you water your ground!"

When we had received our "free" pictorial directory picture in the mail, Natalie was pointing to all of us and telling who each person was. "And who is this, Natalie?" Jessica would ask.
"Denna"

"And who is this?"

"Sicca"

"Who is this?"

"Mr Dawayne"

"And what about this person?"

"That's Hey Mom"

That was when we realized the girls always prefaced anything they said to me with, "Hey Mom, where is the sunscreen?" "Hey Mom, do we have any more popsicles?"

And the time we were practicing the summer project and listening to the CD throughout the day. Natalie kept requesting we fast forward to the turtle song. We would start a song and she would say, "No, that is not the turtle song," and we would stop at the next one, but "No, that is not the turtle song. "Now Unto the King Eternal" was "Now I Want to Be a Turtle". That will always be the turtle song to me....