As I sit here and my fingers dance across the keyboard, I am in complete denial that my baby is already over two weeks old. Where have the days gone? I am forever in awe and disbelief at how swiftly the hands of time pass. I vividly remember so many thing from my own childhood, high school and then college, getting married, going into labor with our first little love. So many of the details are crystal clear and yet years separate today from those memories.
I am feeling nostalgic. My mind has been unable to focus on anything other than my sweets lately. It hit me like a ton of bricks that in less than one short month Huntler will be in kindergarten and the little spitfire that was our baby for so long will be heading off to preschool. Many tears have been shed as I think about these huge milestones that are literally just around the corner. I want to freeze time – to bottle up each of my kids exactly as they are now. Despite the fact that there are days that I want to run away and other days where I contemplate shipping a child or two off to visit grandma in Kansas, I wouldn’t change one single thing about my life. {Well, other than I would magically transport us back to Kansas, but that goes without saying!}
I have so much I want to share – so many thoughts and moments I want to take the time to write about and forever document. Yet I seem to have no desire to sit here at the computer! Each day the hours tick quickly by and my good intentions turn into yet another day my thoughts didn’t quite make it out of my mind and onto my blog. To put it simply, I just want to sit and hold my baby and hang out with my other two lovelies. And so I do. I didn’t take the time to just sit and hold Huntler or Gentry. I was too busy, too preoccupied to sit and I will forever regret that. And so with Brighton, I sit and snuggle – for hours on end.
We are doing so well. When I last updated, my emotions were so raw and my mind spinning out of control. As the days have gone by and I have now pretty much bounced back to my “old” self physically {plus about 20 pounds I still need to shed!!}, things are looking up. Of course I am homesick and would pack up tonight and move if I could, but that isn’t an option. And so we are settling back into our “normal.”
Huntler and Gentry continue to adore Brighton. They are maybe even a little “overly attentive” if you get my drift! Gentry is such a little mama – always wanting to feed her and help with diaper changes. She is my official wipes getter!! And while Huntler isn’t quite as hands on, he is still so loving and doting and very in tune to what she needs! I wouldn’t expect anything different out of either one of them!
So many of you have commented about photos. Let me just say that indoor photography is NOT my thing. At all. I avoid it at all costs. And outdoor photography when it is 115 degrees isn’t ideal either. I have all sorts of ideas and thoughts, but the reality of me pulling off even a quarter of those is slim! These were all taken last week…
