What Makes You "Oisty"-Eyed?

Today Kynzie told me that one of the babies made her eyes "oisty". I love the way she mispronounces certain words. It is so adorable. I think Delainey was close to seven before I finally relinquished and corrected her last mispronounced word. (It was 'smarshmallow', in case you were wondering.)

I do correct Kynzie's wording, and we do work on certain speech issues, but sometimes when she is experimenting with new words... well, it makes my eyes "oisty". I think this word is a combination of some sort of teary and moist or misty and moist? I dunno.

But, on with the story, Kynzie was hanging out with the babies and me in the babies' room while I was nursing (one at a time) She was being very helpful by playing with the baby who wasn't eating. At one point, she leaned in to hug Dennis, and he seemed to hug her in return. She thought that was the sweetest thing ever, and she told me about it, oh, seven or eight times, using different wording each time.

While she was talking about it, the edges of her eyelids reddened a bit, and I knew she was a feeling a little emotional about it. She said that it "put precious hope in her heart" and her "heart was crying" which made her eyes oisty with tears.

She then repeated with Daniel, but since he is not so much a face to face kind of baby like Dennis, he didn't hug her back like she thought he should. She was a little despondent about that, but I encouraged her to keep playing with him, and that he's just as sweet and precious in his own way.

Since I was nursing Dennis, I didn't see the trigger she found, but Daniel laughed out loud (he loves to laugh out loud) and lunged toward her with open arms. She thought that was brotherly love at its best and expressed how precious this episode was for several minutes ending in tears once again. She explained to me that these were happy tears, and sometimes it is okay to cry if your heart has happy tears.

"I am so proud to be their big sister."

That put precious hope in my heart.