Revelry Reverie

We all know at least one perfect parent. They have cute kids who they love on unreservedly with unlimited patience, they are always put together and their house is spotless. Or they are so effortlessly laid back, and their kids dress themselves in adorably un-self-conscious outfits, and nothing ruffles them. Or they make it to…

Kind of amazing. Henry was upset they didn’t have boy wings, and he didn’t want pink. 

Eleanor asked me to play with her this morning. I asked what she wanted to play, and she said animals. So I asked, what animals are we? And she said that we are dragons, and I need to pick my color. I said, “hmm, I want to be green, with a little pink.” And she…

He’ll only be this little for so long.

We were cleaning out the garage today, and the kids wanted to hang out, so Bob took several of the larger boxes we were going to break down and built the kids a fort. They loved it. Eleanor in particular also loved the cut-out from a round window Bob cut in one wall for her. …

While the big kids are off doing this: And this: My baby and I are just hanging out like this:

It’s been 7 weeks since we began this little adventure, and things are pretty smooth at this point. Grant still feeds on demand (not on a schedule) – a luxury I have due to my long maternity leave. He eats between 10 and a million times a day.  We have breastfed out in public quite…

Eleanor made Henry a card. The inside shows Henry in a boat and Ele in a space ship, pulling Henry to safety.

We read books, we played, we breastfed.