Jff: Recent Proud Moments

My older kiddo showed me he knows compassion....My youngest son had chucked a ''Princess'' castle at my middle guy. He was bleeding very badly. While we were trying to get dear middle man cleaned up..big brother came over with some wipes to clean up little brothers hand....He also tried to calm him down by whispering quietly...Very sweet.

My daughter pitched in her softball game for only the second time yesterday. She pitched two innings, struck out 7 players and didn't allow any runs! She did so well that they brought her back in to close the game after the last pitcher had to be taken out for hitting too many people with the ball. She was ecstatic about her performance! I was so proud!

My seven year old daughter and my four year old daughter both wanted a purple popsicle but there was only one left. My seven year old tells her sister, "You can have the last one, since you're smaller."

For sisters who go to combat over everything, my heart soared!

One of my recent "proud moments" was last week when we were leaving the beach. My son (almost 13) helped a younger boy (maybe 7 yrs? --I'm not sure where his parents were) whose boogie board string was caught on a nail on the boardwalk onto the sand. He was all " hey buddy--you're hung up here... let me help you get it"... I was so warm and fuzzy inside.

By the way.. there are many many more.. That is just the most recent, that popped into my head.

My 10 month old put his face in the water at the swimming pool last week and blew bubble. He was super cute.

My son sat up by himself yesterday!
He is allmost 10months. His twin sister does everything way before he does ( she sat up on her own around 6months) I was so happy it allmost brought me to tears!

Thanks for asking.

My proud moments with my children . . .
When each of my sons made eagle scout
When my number two son made validictorian
When my number 3 son made salutitorian (#2 graduate)
When my kids chose good people to get married to.
When my son graduated as a Doctor of Pharmacy.
When my son went in the Air Force.
When my children got their college degree(s) (For those that have.)
When my children represented their school in the county Spelling Bee.

Good luck to you and yours.

Yesterday I was walking down the street with my six year old kindergartener when I heard a car honk honk honking. Turns out it was his teacher waving to him. The teacher's husband was in the passenger seat and called out that he'd heard a lot about my son, and it was all good! I thought to myself, 'well, he must be a pretty good kid!', my friends who are teachers tend to avoid students they don't like when it's outside of school hours!

My son who is almost 2 years old is starting to grasp the concept that you buy things at the store. He sauntered down the aisle of Target yesterday and when he saw the bubble section, he was saying "bubble! bubble!". We don't have a bubble blower anymore so we decided to buy him a giant blowing wand. He was so happy, he tried to walk out the door with it and when we said, "no no we have to buy it first", he said "buy, buy, buy" all the way to the checkout stand and then promptly handed it over to us so we could put it on the belt. He watched it like a hawk the whole time as it slowly made its way to the cashier and when we gave it to him after the cashier scanned it, he said "thank koo" in the sweetest voice. It was so adorable. I'm not sure I should be proud that he's turning into a consumer but omg, he's growing so fast and learning so much that I can't help it! :)

Last week I was picking my son up from school and on the way out there was a girl climbing on the gate that goes to the parking lot. This gate has to be repaired at least every 6 weeks because of stuff like that, and I've had to remind my son lots of times not to climb it. Anyhoo - the girl says to my son "bet you can't climb as high as me!" to which he replied "My mom says we don't do that" and kept walking. I couldn't have been more proud!

My dd just turned 6 and is reading chapter books already and my 3.5 yr old ds is learning his letter sounds and reading the letters for words everywhere and starting to add single digit numbers together.

I love their love of learning!

My daughter is a little older, but she just had an amazing week. She graduated Kindergarten, received 5 awards at Awards night including the Achievement Award for having the highest GPA, then she finally hit the Ball (in t-ball) into the outfield, a huge deal in t-ball and she was named MVP for the game and got to take home the game ball.

I have always been proud, but this week my pride is pouring out!!!

Thanks for this post, its nice to see/share the possitive moments of motherhood! Your little guys sounds like he is going great and you are a very blessed proud mamma!

Today I am proud that I didn't lose my patience with my eight year old when she was having a fit. I am also proud that both of the kids got dressed, right when they got up, without being asked. Thanks for the cool question.

Thank you for this! It was so nice to read through everyone else's responses. Some we've already been through and I remember the feeling and others I have to look forward to. After a trying couple days of my children destroying everything (broken blinds, butter smeared on the big tv, dog food bag opened and scattered all over the playroom-- seriously, it's been a bad couple days) it was nice to sit for a second and have a reminder of how wonderful my children actualy are when they are not possessed by their alternate egos.

It makes me most proud when they get along. When they play cooperatively and nicely together. When My daughter doesn't shut down every idea my son has. When they dont fight at dinner. When in prepping for family movie night, my almost five year old got her almost 3yeat old brothe'rs blanket from his room and tucked him in on the couch, to which he replied, "tank you Kissin." When she insisted on helping her brother pick up the dogfood that was scattered all over the floor. When they sit and "read" books together and DD makes up a completely different story than what is on the pages. When DD walked up to the new girl in class and said, "Hi do you want to be my friend?" When DS comes in from outside to fill both his and his sisters water bottle. When after DS got a new and very drastic haircut (10" off) DS smiled and said, "ooh, Kissin, you pretty."

I love when they show what wonderful beautiful people they are turning into. Despite their tendency to make messes by simply breathing.

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Watching my kids sit quietly and read. I LOVE seeing that. And the fact that I can take them (they are 8 and 6) to a bookstore, sit down in the cafe, and they will both sit quietly and read; it's awesome because I can relax and drink coffee and they are just so well-behaved, it makes up for all the times they drive me crazy. :-)