Exhaustion makes everything funny... absolutely everything. If I have to be this tired, I am glad I can at least enjoy it.
I want my kids to stay this age FOREVER. I am addicted to kissing Clark's fat baby scented cheeks. Norah amazes me daily with her crazy smart thoughts, and I love that when one of them wakes up from a nap before the other one, they get insanely excited when the other finally wakes up and they both hug each other like long lost siblings.
Norah's eyes have started to resemble my dad's. I think. I only have one picture of him where you can see his face clearly, and he is giving a funny look to the camera, but Norah has been giving us the same face lately. That's how it struck me. He never gave me a chance to know him, but it's comforting to think there is a piece of him with us and that he's not just a figment of my imagination.
I'm sad that Clark is moving from the infant room to the toddler room at daycare. Not because he is getting older (well, maybe a little because of that), but because I love his teachers and I'll miss talking to them every morning. I am excited for Clark though, because he seems to be bored and is missing his girl Grete who waiting for him there :)
What are you supposed to do when kids fight over toys?! Before I had kids I thought "that's easy, just tell them to share or take away the toy!" Turns out that is not the perfect solution. It's not fair to the kid who originally started playing with the toy to take it away if the other kid tried to take if from them. Which happens every time anyone picks up a toy. If I did it this way we would have 0 toys left. I give up! Just fight it out :)
The most relaxing fun thing I look forward to on a weekly basis? Well, I have three of them: Parenthood, New Girl & Up All Night. TV Shows. It really is so exciting to me to sit on the couch and not have to do anything but laugh (or cry) at the TV.
I love staying home on Wednesdays with the kids. I finally feel like life is just a little bit less hectic and passing us by just a little more slowly. Today we played in the snow all day making snow men, snow angels, snow balls you name it!
Here are a bunch of random photos from the last month....
The Look
Saying "I Love Tacos!" in her looooow voice
I love that they love each other so much
Can you resist this face?
Look Ma! No Hands!!!
Norah loves to color.
Here is her specialty... Rainbow Dora
He sat himself down in this baby doll chair,
put the tray on his lap and pretended to drink from a toy sippy cup
Fighting - Norah had it first
Mr. Independent makes a mess
Muah!
Norah probably ate about 10 lbs of snow today
Love ~ Renee
