I swear to you that this will be my last "oh look at my babies" post for a while. I've got a great refinery story to tell you as soon as I find a good enough picture to accompany. I'm just hyper aware that my stay at home mom-ness days are severely numbered and I'm milking it (haha) for all it's worth. And besides, these kids are my secret weapon for conquering the world (and paying for my early retirement). Really, it doesn't get any cuter than this:
Check out that double chin! We really have the eating thing down now and aren't too worried about her wasting away. Simon has been trying to teach his new sister all the important games, like Your Nose Goes "Honk, Honk, Beep, Beep," and Always Laugh When You Fart. Important stuff here.
Morgan and Zoe have been busy with school, karate and ballet but are just as cute as ever too.T I need to be better at getting the camera out when they are home too. We were all at the grocery store the other day, which is one of those activities that drives fear to my bones (which little one goes in the cart and who is going to have to keep an eye on Simon and if I put him in the cart too where are the groceries going to go and Zoe wants a cookie but it's almost dinner time and when it's all said and done where the heck did I park the car?) and three separate people came up to me to tell me how nice my family was. I was just glad they didn't see us in the check out line.
Mostly, I'm struggling with the impending return to work. I know Isla is our last baby and I just want to stuff every single memory of this time with her in my brain. Her tiny feet, ears and hands, her first smiles, how she holds my finger while she nurses. I love these moments. I barely remember Zoe's, and have to look at photos to recall just how tiny she was (six pounds). Simon seems like he was tiny just a little while ago, but when I look at him now, it's the trademark Simon-ness that I want to never forget. The goofy smile and ridiculous laugh. This boy loves his baby sister ferociously. Isla is HIS baby, so don't get too close.
Although lately there has been a little bit of jealousy from him. He can't stand for her to have a pacifier and not him as well, so we haven't been able to wean him from those yet. And he loves her chair. He steals these two items every chance he gets.
This stay at home mom stuff is pretty great, even if I do lose my mind on occasion and miss the smell of crude oil in the mornings (cough cough). Mostly I miss doing a few things for me, like taking the time to style my hair. Or brewing the perfect mocha. I'm starting to find ways to fit a few of these things in, like running in the morning and on dance nights there is a whole hour of me alone in a cafe. I'll miss being able to take Zoe to the bus and being here when she gets home, and I'll miss hearing Simon run around the house like a boy on fire trying to catch the kitty. I'll miss baby yawns in the afternoon and five thousand readings of Good Night Moon by nap time. But me going back to work, even just part time, will mean us getting into a bigger house where Simon can have his first bedroom (not ours!), and I can make a nursery for Isla, and Morgan can have a space all her own. I think Zoe just wants to make sure that she will be able to play outside still, and ride her bike, she would sleep in the kitchen if she had too. And once we get all settled, I'll have an office to work from home!
But for now it's all about how cute my kids are and how much I love these days with them.
