Spring has Sprung

Man I don’t feel like working at all! I have a bad case of spring fever! Lol The girls and I played outside all evening last night – the girls LOVE to play outside and the LOVE our doggies and our doggies love them… we came in for quick dinner and then we all had yogurt on the porch (including Trinity, who got to lick our bowls clean lol). Jimmie had to work late. He didn’t get home til like 8:00… poor feller… but anyways, we’re just getting into the groove of this being parents thing… It’s funny how our attitude has sort of done a 180 from the first few days til now. Each day gets better and better and the ache for our life before children in the house is slowly going away… don’t get me wrong, I’m still fantasizing about sleeping til noon on a Saturday or going on a cruise, kid-free, very soon… but I’m thinking more like next January or February rather than the next available ship…

I was looking yesterday at cruises online and just being nosey and looking at the priciest cabins and suites. There are these penthouse suites on some ships with their own hot tubs outside on these huge decks… I think the price was like $2000.00+ per person…yikes! I’m just not sure what in the world we’d do with all that space… we didn’t spend more than an hour or so during the day in our room on the last cruise…. Of course, if we went on a longer cruise I think the cramped quarters would get old but if I spent the jack for the penthouse suite, I don’t know if I’d leave my room! Lol But there is so much fun stuff to do on the ship…

Umm.. I told you I’m fantasizing about our next cruise… I can totally see why the “Cruise Crew” is as cruise happy as they are… lol…

But back to the girlies… Aniya is teething… I’m a nerd and looked up on WedMD about teething and there is a chart that tells the order in which the teeth come in – pretty informative actually… she had two nights last week where she just didn’t sleep more than 20 minutes at a time, which meant that the first night I didn’t sleep more than 20 minutes at a time and the next night Jimmie didn’t sleep… thank heavens the teeth finally made an appearance because we were all so exhausted that the 3rd night we all slept like rocks. She is also not biting very much any more, which is good because for a while there she was the class bully at daycare. She bit one little guy so hard she almost drew blood… but she is also such a little sweetie pie… and a cuddle bug… I’m telling you what, if I could bottle those cuddles up and keep them forever, I so would!

Mayce is a mess… she is so sweet one minute and a terror the next. Bless her heart… I just feel for her so much through all of this because she’s just old enough to understand some things but not quite old enough to understand all that is going on. Especially after visitations, her little face is just so sad and confused and mad and it just truly breaks my heart. I’ve been telling her every night when I put her to bed that she is special and that God made her and that He loves her and we love her. And at first, when I’d tell her we love her she’d just say, no…. now she says yup and she tells us she loves us…

Sometimes, when I’m rocking Aniya to sleep (which I hardly ever have to do – she goes out like a light at 8:00 with a bottle) or putting Mayce to bed I just say a prayer for whatever the future might hold and that they’ll be happy in life, wherever they end up… I do see now that we will be very sad when they leave. We’re settling in and getting attached… It does look like we’ll probably have them at least through the summer. And we are going to meet mommy sometime in May… I’ll let ya’ll know exactly when so you can pray lots of prayers for us and for her. I’m pretty nervous about that… will she be happy to meet us or salty at us? I dunno…

Anyways, umm I guess I better get some work done… Happy Spring!