What memories of your children make you smile?

when they were about 12 months old my son would get this look and watch out ...he would chase his sister (they were commando crawling) and climb on her back and sit there with a big grin on his face while she screamed blue murder.

Or he would see her crawl into the bedroom and would chase her down there and shut the door on her. I went around to the window to see what exactly he was doing one of these time and he would sit against the door with a big smile while she screamed. Weirdly enough 9 years later he hates his door being shut while she doesn't care. I have to say as frustrating as those times could be I would laugh.

He still gets that look now and I just tell him 'Whatever you are thinking STOP" lol.

Another one was the day my daughter made it through a few levels of a swimming comp. The look on her face of pride in her achievement was wonderful.

Seeing them side by side a few weeks old and one turning to the other and start sucking the others nose lol.

My daughter crying just because her brother was crying. Horrible at the time as she needed to feed but couldn't because he was crying and it upset her but I look back at those times as wonderful moments as now if he is crying she has probably caused it and vise versa lol.

My kids have amazing senses of humour and everyday is a joy

The first time my 3yr old said clearly "I'm sorry Mummy, I love you" when she stood on my foot and I yelled in pain. When I put her to bed and she tells me she doesn't want to go to sleep yet because she wants Mummy snuggles.

The time my son was turned upside down and he shouted for me to put him back the right way before all his blood ran out - he was 7 at the time. When the Robbie Williams song Millenium became his favourite but he danced like the video to Rock DJ.

Every time I see her scar I remember being told my other daughter came through her surgery ok after her op to repair a diaphragmatic hernia at 3 days old and being able to leave hospital 12 days later (she's perfectly healthy now)

Theres so many I could list here but i'd be here all night!

My oldest daughter who is 11 has also been testing me lately.

With my oldest daughter a couple memories of her as a little girl make me smile. When she was about 3 we were at my aunts house and my little girl was playing with the stuff on my aunts coffee table, we were in the kitchen playing cards. Well it got really quiet in the front room so I looked in and my little girl had fallen asleep between the glass of the coffee table. ( It was one of those coffee tables with a glass top and the small shelves underneath) she had her head on the shelf part and her butt on the floor.

The another time she was about 5 or 6 we had went fishing, and on the way home we stopped at McDonald's she got Nuggets she was chattering and eating her nuggets. After about 10 minutes she got really quiet, looked back and she was sound asleep with a nugget in her hand up to her mouth. So I took the nugget out of her hand so she wouldn't drop it on the floor. When we got home my husband went to lift her up to carry her in the house she kind of woke up, she was so tired she thought she still had her nugget in her hand and tried to take a bite.

I have several with all my kids, but I wont go into them all or it would probably get ungodly long, and boring.

Oh trust me I know exactly what you mean. I'm going through that with my son right now and sometimes it gets so bad, I wished I had never met his father (who's not in the picture now). But then I remember that he is my son and I really do love him so that feeling is short lived.

One of the things that makes me smile about him is remembering when he was a little boy and the silly things he used to do that would just make me burst out laughing. I look at pictures he drew and baby pictures of him and then I realize that somewhere in that thick head of his, he's still the same person, it's just that right now he's just trying to find his own place in the world as he gets older so he has his own choices and mistakes to make and that things will eventually get better. (I hope)

Good luck with your boy I hope it's not nearly as dramatic as what my son is going through.

When my children cuddle me and say "I love you mummy you are the best"

There are good times and bad times but the good always weigh out the bad.

It is hard being a parent but their worth every moment.

We love our children with all our hearts and would do anything for them

You will get through this testing time

I remember the day my daughters were born and all the days leading up to it. Every time I think of my girls coming into the world, I can't help but smile! And just getting to see them each day. and watching them grow up:)

My daugther is only 5 months but so far, it was the first night i got to spend with her in the hosiptal, i remember not being able to sleep until they brought her to me, i was up at least until 5am, when i held her for that second time i felt so blessed because she was so beautiful, and innocent, i fell in love immediatly

i often remember when she was in the hospital (born at 24 weeks). she was there for a long time, and i remember how lucky i am to have her with me now. she is very blessed. i also think about how all her NICU doctors told me she would never walk, she would be tube fed for the rest of her life. she is taking steps now, and loves french fries. =)

well im a girl..and my childhood memories are being in virginia (hometown) goin to the beach nd being with my family and seeing my now decease family members

When she first called me "Pappa"