Remember how this little guy is doing better at eating pureed food. Though it still only amounts to about a tablespoon and a half and of that only part makes it in his mouth. He seems to enjoy carrots and his sisters want to know how you mush up carrots when they are so hard? His hair is growing in thicker and he is grabbing for everything he can get his hands on.
Remember how Beth more dances around her chair during dinner rather than sits in it. She rarely eats a whole meal and most of the time dinner is spent in negotiating. Remember how you were a good mom and bought a pumpkin pie for Pi day. You let the kids choose even though you would have preferred coconut cream.
Remember how your oldest baby now takes care of the youngest baby with such gentleness and love. She does fun activities with him and sings to him. It is beautiful and incomprehensible that she is old enough to do this. When given the option to clear the table or tend the baby so you can do dishes, she beats her siblings with a resounding, “I will watch the baby.” The baby loves her and often times gets excited when she walks in the house after being gone all day.
Remember how Beth more dances around her chair during dinner rather than sits in it. She rarely eats a whole meal and most of the time dinner is spent in negotiating. Remember how you were a good mom and bought a pumpkin pie for Pi day. You let the kids choose even though you would have preferred coconut cream.
Oh, and don’t forget the conversation at dinner from J about how “Santa, the Tooth fairy, and the Easter bunny are the only real magic in the world. Because how would we have presents or money or egg hunts without them.”
We miss Dad at the dinner table as this is a night he works late. The table is a different place without him, but we manage.
Remember how your oldest baby now takes care of the youngest baby with such gentleness and love. She does fun activities with him and sings to him. It is beautiful and incomprehensible that she is old enough to do this. When given the option to clear the table or tend the baby so you can do dishes, she beats her siblings with a resounding, “I will watch the baby.” The baby loves her and often times gets excited when she walks in the house after being gone all day.
Remember how these girls recalled mom had put their Barbie camper away months ago and decided it is time to be played with. It will keep them entertained for the next week as they come up with different scenarios for their barbies. They asked you several times in the last 24 hours when you would get it out for them.
These ordinary days are the gentle rhythm of our lives. They string together much of the growth and learning we encounter. When I look back, I know I will want to remember not only the grand but the simple days we live as a family too. Grateful to get to experience life with my family.
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