Hurt Finger

Miles just came in to my room, where I was making my bed, whimpering and holding his left hand in his right.  "Ouch, Ouch, Owie!" he cried.
"What happened, son?"  I asked.
"Its my pinky.  My pinky hurts so bad!!!"
"Oh no...that's sad.  How did it get hurt?" I asked gently.
"Well...I was just putting it in my mouth..." he looked around reluctantly, "And...then...I bit it."

Tonight while I was snuggling Miles for a few minutes before bed, he leaned over and kissed my cheek.
"I love you," he said.
I kissed him and loved him back.
Then he said, "When I turn 5, when I learn how to draw hearts...I'm going to...well, when I turn 5 and I learn how to draw hearts...AND ROSES!...I will turn 5 and then...when it will be Valentine's Day, do you know what I'll do then?  I'll draw them for you on...do you know what they will be on?  On LOVE cards!  I'll draw hearts and RoOoses on a LOVE card for you!"

Miles and Lila are such cute little buddies.  We've had an ice storm hit us and have been somewhat iced in for the past few days.  School was canceled Friday...and just found out it will be canceled tomorrow as well.  These ice storms are very interesting.  Lots and lots of trees down simply because of the weight of the ice.  Power outages.  But they are very pretty.  And I must say that I usually defend Texas and their fondness for canceling school at the slightest bit of slipperiness.  The ice storms are different than anything I experienced in Utah and the driving conditions are truly treacherous.  Plus, there are very very few vehicles available to do anything to remove snow or ice...sanding and things like that does not happen often or quickly.  So...it gets icy and we stay put.  Today there was only one hour of church.  Our leaders didn't want those with callings to feel obligated to drive on the ice if they didn't feel good about it, so we only held Sacrament meeting.  By the time we drove home at about 12:30, the temps were in the upper 30s and the ice was pretty well melted.  The ice continued to melt through out the day.  Then the kids went to bed and I got a call that school is canceled again because...the road "might" be icey again.  No new precipitation just that water melted and so it could be icey in places.  ?  Hm.  Sorry Texas.  I'm not defending you on this one.  That is very wimpy.  Anywho...the ice looked really cool.

Back to Miles and Lila being cute buddies.  Today he has just been loving on her so much, wanting to hold her hand so she didn't slip on the ice, playing fun games with her, and then wanting to tell her Christmas stories as they snuggled in his bed before sleep.  He had wanted her to sleep in his bed all night, which she was thrilled about, but then he said, "She..well...I sort of don't want her to sleep in my bed because she's kind of not that fun to snuggle with because...well...her hair is so messy and keeps getting in my face."  Haha.  He's used to only snuggling with bald mama!

Here are a few cute (if not edited) pics of the two of them together.

This one in the car is from when I recently locked my keys in my car at the store and my friend Sarah had to come pick me up...thus we didn't have car seats.