"I Love..." Mondays: The Little Things

On the way home from dropping off Joshua this morning, I had my iPod on shuffle in the car.  I like a mixture of music so shuffling is usually my favorite way to listen, even though I always end up skipping about ten songs at a time before I settle on something I'm in the mood for.  Something I'm always in the mood for?  Adele.  So as Rolling in the Deep fills the car with that brilliant voice and contagious beat, I notice Caleb is really into it and doing his trademark "hand dance".  Just in case you're wondering, he does this thing where he dances with only his hands...like he's at an imaginary baby rave with invisible glow sticks.  Well, the song ends and the iPod moves onto the next song and all of a sudden I hear the start of a massive tantrum erupt out of the backseat.  I look back at Caleb and he is literally in tears, squalling, with his face red and splotchy.  There's no obvious cause for this fit so I take my best guess and put Rolling in the Deep back on.  He instantly gets quiet and starts again with the hand dance.  We only listened to Adele on the rest of the drive home.  In case there was any question before...this is definitely my kid.

This brings me to today's post.  It's the little things like this, laughing at my ridiculously dramatic child, that make this life of mine full.  I haven't done an "I Love..." in a while and as I was trying to decide what I wanted to share my love of, I thought of this post from my good, internet friend (she's awesome, by the way, y'all should all check her blog out).  So today is all about the little things in life that I love...including dancing toddlers.

• I love that solid chocolate part at the bottom of an ice cream Drumstick.  I'm actually not sure it gets much better than that.
• I love the days on the weekend that Bobby gets up with the boys and let's me sleep in.  Sleep is my favorite.
• I love the times that the boys let me hold them on the couch and snuggle.  They're only this little for a short while, after all.
• I love it when you get a peanut M&M with two peanuts in it.  It's like the Momma one had twins.
• I love it when my husband cooks or helps me clean the kitchen.  He's a better cook than me anyway and the dishes, well...they've always been my arch-nemesis.
• I love finding cards or pictures that I completely forgot about.  It ranks up there with finding money in the pockets of your jeans or jacket.
• I love the first sip of an ice cold Coca-Cola.  I also miss it because I quit drinking them back in December.  
• I love the look Caleb gets on his face when he gets really excited and happy or is trying to look cute because he knows he's in trouble.  He really is so cute I just want to squish him all the time.
• I love kisses and hugs from my sweet Joshua boy.  He melts my heart to mush.
• I love when I get to curl up on the couch with a cup of coffee in the morning and wake up really slowly.
• I love getting to watch Joshua do new things for the first time and feeling one step closer to his total recovery.
• I love getting into bed at night when Bobby's already asleep and cuddling up next to him.  It's like when you have kids and they are crazy all day but the second they fall asleep they're the most precious thing you've ever seen.  No matter what that day has been like, when he's sleeping all I can think about is how blessed I am to be the girl that got him.
• I love it when I think one of the boys has a dirty diaper, but then I check and it was just gas.
• I love the way the house feels when I just finished cleaning.
• I love watching Joshua begin to pay attention to Caleb and give him hugs.
• I love baths in my big tub.
• I love getting into bed with freshly cleaned sheets.
• I love it when my husband randomly hugs or kisses me and how our best days are the ones we pick on each other a lot.

What are some of your favorite little things?