Punch you and rock you

Wyatt has a habit of pulling his arms into his shirt. If is he is sitting he will pull his knees into the shirt, then catch the bottom of it under his feet. I hate what this does to his shirts, and am constantly telling him to stop! Tonight the three of us were watching TV, and he was doing it again. Then he straightened his legs with the shirt still hooked around his toes. I reached down (without anger, I will add) and grabbed his shirt close to his feet and started to pull up, at this same moment he wiggled his toes free......and the shirt proceeded to snap back. Then my fist collided with his face. His eye really. I felt so bad, and he cried so hard. He asked me to kiss it. I kissed his cheek, he said "you missed my eye, will you try again." I kissed his eyeLID, and the crying stopped. I have magic kisses you know. I used them earlier today on Wyatt and Talia. Isn't is amazing that a child seriously believes that a kiss from their mother makes pain disappear.
Wyatt was getting ready for his bath, and I pictured him at school tomorrow saying "My Mom punched me in the eye!" I asked him "Wyatt did I punch you on accident or on purpose." He sat for a second with his "thinking face", and said "well.....I don't want you to have to go to time out, so I say accident." I couldn't help but laugh, and ask WHO would put me in time out. (Please don't turn black! Please, please don't turn black!)

Tuesday Christie, Christina, and I took our kids to the Maryland Science Center. We love that place! We had so much fun, and only went to 2 1/2 areas. Wyatt was so disappointed when we left, we will have to go back soon. We came home and had naps, ate dinner, we all had a turn talking to daddy on the phone, we went downstairs and organized the toys, and went upstairs for bed. Natalia asked me to rock her, and bye-golly (did I just say bye-golly??) I am going to rock that girl as much as I can.........because one day she won't ask me to. I held her and said "We had such a wonderful day today, didn't we?!.... We got to go to the Science Center and"...... Then she interrupted me and said "A talking Daddy a phone, Daddy love Talia SO much." I got a little choked up. How wonderful is it....that the highlight of that little girls' day was talking to her Dad?

We miss him!