...Between R and our oldest daughter, Peanut:
R: "Do you want a sippy of milk?"
Peanut: "No!"
R: "Do you want to read a book together?"
Peanut: "No!"
R: "Do you want a magic unicorn to ride so that you can smite your enemies?"
Peanut: (Emphatic nodding).
23 January, 2009
21 January, 2009
200th post!
Can you believe it? This is my 200th post! Wowza!
I am so tired today. Dangerfeet slept relatively well last night (for the first time) and so of course Peanut was up about 8 times, sneezing and coughing and crying. Daddy's cold is spreading! Yay!
So that means that I slept for about four hours, spread into 45 minute increments.
Motherhood! Woo!
I have been thinking a lot about motherhood recently (surprise, right?).
I have been thinking about how I really believed before I had children that the state of motherhood itself would change me. It does, of course, but not in the way I really thought that it would. I thought I would be wiser, more patient, more kind. I am often more patient than I would have thought, but I so often fall short of those ideals I imagined before. I do have a much greater capacity for love and silliness than I would have imagined, and I can play and be in the moment more than I would have anticipated.
But the wisdom? I don't have it. The kindness? I try so hard to treat my children with kindness and respect, but I do snap occasionally (and then feel terrible about it afterwards).
I wonder what you imagined about parenthood that didn't quite turn out the way you thought it would. Leave a comment and let me know.
I have to lay down. Both kids (while covered in snot) are asleep, so I need to close my eyes and try to get 6 minutes of sleep.
I am so tired today. Dangerfeet slept relatively well last night (for the first time) and so of course Peanut was up about 8 times, sneezing and coughing and crying. Daddy's cold is spreading! Yay!
So that means that I slept for about four hours, spread into 45 minute increments.
Motherhood! Woo!
I have been thinking a lot about motherhood recently (surprise, right?).
I have been thinking about how I really believed before I had children that the state of motherhood itself would change me. It does, of course, but not in the way I really thought that it would. I thought I would be wiser, more patient, more kind. I am often more patient than I would have thought, but I so often fall short of those ideals I imagined before. I do have a much greater capacity for love and silliness than I would have imagined, and I can play and be in the moment more than I would have anticipated.
But the wisdom? I don't have it. The kindness? I try so hard to treat my children with kindness and respect, but I do snap occasionally (and then feel terrible about it afterwards).
I wonder what you imagined about parenthood that didn't quite turn out the way you thought it would. Leave a comment and let me know.
I have to lay down. Both kids (while covered in snot) are asleep, so I need to close my eyes and try to get 6 minutes of sleep.
19 January, 2009
Another Dispatch from Babyville?
No words for this. So tired, so in love with this one.
Really, a real post soon. Thanks for sticking around, despite the lack of actual material here. Soon.
Really, a real post soon. Thanks for sticking around, despite the lack of actual material here. Soon.
09 January, 2009
Dispatch from Babyville...
It has been a busy week. I really am intending to actually post a real actual post with actual words and things, but I seem to have exactly 3.2 seconds to myself each day, and I try to at least sponge off during them, as not to offend the neighbors. So, for now....
We've been a busy little household, what with adjusting to double the children in our house now (it sounds more dramatic to state it that way) and getting used to the schedule of a newborn again. It is a little more of a challenge now that I have a toddler, too. A toddler who really does seem to both understand that there was a baby in mommy's tummy and now the baby has come home to live with us. She's really amazing, that Peanut. Her vocabulary is expanding every ten minutes or so, and her grasp of concepts and her sense of wonder... well, they slay me.
Also, she's begun singing. Oh, it made me cry the first time I was treated to the whisper-singing rendition of "Twinkle, twinkle, wonder star... twinkle, twinkle..." She's pretty amazing.
Oh, and that new little baby, who holds her head up for thirty seconds or more at a time, who is beginning to smile at us, and who snuggles like a champion? She's pretty neat, too.
We've been a busy little household, what with adjusting to double the children in our house now (it sounds more dramatic to state it that way) and getting used to the schedule of a newborn again. It is a little more of a challenge now that I have a toddler, too. A toddler who really does seem to both understand that there was a baby in mommy's tummy and now the baby has come home to live with us. She's really amazing, that Peanut. Her vocabulary is expanding every ten minutes or so, and her grasp of concepts and her sense of wonder... well, they slay me.
Also, she's begun singing. Oh, it made me cry the first time I was treated to the whisper-singing rendition of "Twinkle, twinkle, wonder star... twinkle, twinkle..." She's pretty amazing.
Oh, and that new little baby, who holds her head up for thirty seconds or more at a time, who is beginning to smile at us, and who snuggles like a champion? She's pretty neat, too.
02 January, 2009
Introducing Dangerfeet...
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