Chloe as Ernie, A Connection?

Here is a cute and funny picture I snapped the other night of Chloe holding up an Ernie balloon to her face. She was playing peek-a-boo from behind it...

Wasn't she clever to "hide" behind a balloon?

I love that you can see her little feet (socks in hand).

Not like it's cold or anything around here (yeah, right - hitting freezing temps very soon!)

But then again, it's probably refreshing to run around in bare feet for a bit...

Besides, when Daddy playfully asks her where her socks are every time she takes them off, then follows up with a chase around the house and a swooping up of Chloe and tickle and kissing attacks... kind of makes me want to take my socks off to0 and run from him...

Although not so pretty figuring I'd be just waddling fast with my pregnant belly and all...

Funny to picture though...

Anyway - to the connection parts...

I love seeing connections - even if they are something that I alone see...

They are special, and I believe they really do help with healing and keeping memories alive!

There are so many little things that Chloe does that are SO my mom through and through.

Things that she likes, things she does, things she says, points to, or is very interested in...

Things that I myself really don't pay attention to, but Chloe notices...

Dave, Teren, and I see a lot of things that she does that my mom did - and we can only stop and look at each other with gaping mouths and silent amazement...

And that Chloe never actually met mom outside of my belly...

We spent a lot of time with mom over 9 months in the hospital with she was sick...

We were with her when her spirit and soul left her physical body and moved on...

And I still believe - that whatever happens to you when you leave your body, that a piece of my mom went right for Chloe and I.

I know this because of the sense of overwhelming peace and calm and love I felt after she took her last breathe...

And if that is "greedy" of me to think that, well, so be it.

Then I'm greedy and a bit self centered...

But I know the connection I had with my mom...

We had an understanding as only she and I could have...

Just like she had a connection with any other person in her life, and that connection can only ever be understood by those two people.

Oh, my... There I go again... a little off topic, finding myself defending my thoughts about relationships in life...

Back to the point of the picture and the connection it has with mom:

It's funny that I posted a picture of mom and Big Tony in their home made Sesame Street Halloween costumes recently.

And mom had on the Ernie costume...

And that Ernie happens to be one of Chloe's favorite characters from Sesame Street.

She likes Elmo and Cookie Monster too - but Loves Ernie!

And that a recent new friendship via blogging and beading, Marie Dodd, mentioned the 40th anniversary for Sesame Street in a recent blog post this week...

And that Mary Jane is one of the artists offering to help me out with finished jewelry for the My Mom Pattie Etsy shop...

Still have to figure out what significance that 40 has...

There is always something with numbers too...

Such a small wonderfully connected world...