"Ma? When I get married, I want that person to come live with me here."
Ok.
First of all, Cole has never talked about married. Never asked what it was. Never showed any interest. Never talked about any prospects. So I say:
"Well, who do you think you might want to marry?"
Cole: "uhhhhhh.......Kellie?"
He didn't say it like he was asking a question, or unsure. He said it in that quiet, shy tone and the inflection at the end suggested: what do you think about that, mama?
Kellie is our babysitter, but I really don't even like to call her that because she is just so much more. More on her in a second. So I say:
"Really!!"
Cole: "Did she already get married, ma?"
Me: "Well, no I don't think so..."
Cole: "But what do you have to do to get married, ma?"
So I explained the ceremony, paperwork, etc....and that was the end of that. He was off to bed in his fire truck jammies. [Note: he mentioned, that since he is FIVE now, he needs all new pj's that have a "5" on the tag. Because he's not 4 anymore.]
Kellie is such a sweet, wonderful person. I was pretty pleased this was his first foray into the subject of marriage. We were lucky enough to come to know her through someone at mom & dad's church and she's been watching the kids since before Adison was born. When she comes over, it's like a two-for-one deal. 1: she watches the kids so Kevin and I can go out. 2: When we get back, I get to sit and talk to her for awhile, which I really enjoy. Sometimes I genuinely wish I was in college, and she was my dorm....leader? mom? head dorm? whatever the kids call it.....I'm so grateful we've been able to have her around so much and I'm genuinely panicking as I think about her graduating college and moving on. Fun fact about Kellie: she has 1,199 friends on Facebook. She will probably have 2000 by the time I post this.
She sent me a picture of she and Cole from her computer, and I stole one right off of her profile page. I think it's pretty obvious why we all love her.
3 comments:
I was thinking this past week that if I could manage to recognize Kellie in the library, I might ask her to put her babysitting skills to use at our house. Now that I have read this I am thinking about actually hunting her down. Kellie, whenever you read this, this is huge, especially coming from Cole, who does not say something he does not mean...
This is the sweetest thing I have ever read!
I have to tell you, I can't believe that I beat out his friend Lizzy for the first marriage prospect. Wow... I'm so flattered :)
And Sarah, I'll be on the first floor of the apartments next year at Meredith, so if you decide to get another degree we'd love to have you. We'll have 24-hour boy visitation over there so Kevin could visit you all the time! :) haha
Carine, I actually don't visit the library very much...I think the last time I was in there you did recognize me (that was awesome!). Just let me know, I'd love to babysit for you!
Man...I'm the luckiest babysitter ever. Eeeevverrr.
This is Kellie's mom.She IS pretty cool!
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