Some reflections on the past couple of months:
It has kind of felt like a blur. More recently I have been able to slow down and actually appreciate these precious little babies. The first couple months after I had lily I literally felt like I was gasping for air most days.
All of the following actually happened in just one day: Isaac dumped over a favorite plant and there was dirt covering the entire kitchen (still not sure if the plant is going to survive), Lily spit up ALL over herself involving a change of clothes for both her and me, Isaac took a whole basket of clean laundry and threw each piece over the railing onto the stairs (while I was changing Lily) then he proceeded to throw an extra large bottle of children’s Benadryl over the railing (it wasn’t until later that I realized that the bottle had broken open upon hitting the stairs and dribbled all the way down the stairs and onto all the clean laundry), Lily pooped an explosive poop all over herself involving another change of clothes, and my cat Billy had diarrhea literally all over my bedroom. Not kidding. This all happened on one day. I was actually laughing at the ridiculous turn of events. Like the Indigo Girls once said “Sometimes you have to just laugh at yourself otherwise you would cry your eyes out” and I did that sometimes too.
Now that I feel like I can breathe and have gotten into more of a routine with the little ones I am starting to appreciate all the small moments of beauty and laugher and grace with these little people. I love to hear Isaac laughing at the smallest things that happen all the time. I love how Lily’s little fingers always seem to find my hand and grab on. I love how every morning Isaac reminds me to feed Bear (our dog) by holding up his bowl and saying “more, more, more”. I love that whenever Isaac hears Lily crying he exclaims, “BABY!!!” and points in the direction of her crying as if to make sure that I know she needs me. I love that right now Isaac only wants me to read him books about bugs, “The Hungry Little Caterpillar”, “Miss Spider’s Tea Party”, and “10 Little Lady Bugs.” So many precious things that I could keep writing forever.
Below are a couple pics that I took last night as we were waiting for Dan to get home. For the past two days Isaac has been totally captivated by the toilet paper packages. He carries them all over the house. It’s both really cute, and kind of annoying.
Rachel, Emma, and Isaac. Emma is kind of in love with Isaac. She is always reaching for him and wanting him to come closer and closer and give her more and more and more kisses.
Lily and her mimi. Not quite sure what Lily is trying to say right here, but she's definitely giving the camera some attitude.
Lily and Emma. Neither of them at their best :)
We walked away for one minute and come back to find Isaac and Emma laying down together AND holding hands. We are going to have to keep our eye on these two.
