Last night Logan decided it would be fun to be wide awake after drinking his bottle at 4am. I guess that wasn’t last night so much as it was this morning. He was all smiles, though, so I couldn’t help but love his cute little wide eyes, even at 4am. He snuggled up next to me in my bed since I knew he wasn’t going back to sleep in his crib, and he fell asleep on my tummy by 5am. I woke him up at 8 to feed him before having to get the boys up to get ready for school. I love having a pleasant baby in the morning, and I’m grateful that Logan is mostly delightful throughout the day.
After dropping Easton off at school, we came back home and I got Logan down for a nap. I paid some bills, took a fast shower, and got some organizing done before I had to wake Logan up and feed him. After he was fed, we picked Easton up from school. I also picked up my friend Gina’s son Michael from his class since she just had her baby. Nobody should have to load 3 children into the car to pick up a kindergartner a week after having a baby, and she brought Easton home for me after I had Logan. We headed to Grandma Edgel’s after getting Michael to his house, and the boys stayed and played while Janea followed me to Ted Weins to drop my van off to get my oil changed and brakes inspected. So we spent a few hours over there while the van was worked on. The boys had fun playing in the water and searching for buried treasure in the back yard with G-Ma. Have I mentioned before how much I love living by our families? I really really do, and I feel so blessed that my boys get to see their grandparents and aunts, uncles, and cousins all the time. Not everyone gets to live by their families, and some crazy people prefer it that way. But I am a family girl!
We headed back to our house around 4:30, and I got home and fed Logan right away. I like having a schedule, but it’s hard to follow on days when there are errands to run. Jacob got home right after I finished feeding Logan and before I had the chance to start dinner. My friend Rachel came over to meet Logan about a half hour after Jacob got home. Rachel was one of my good friends right after I became single again. I love that girl, and I had so many fun times with her. She was a good friend to have in the singles ward. She moved back to Washington right before Jacob and I started dating, but we were both friends with her. That’s how Jacob and I met – we were at a hangout at Rachel’s apartment. Anyway, she stayed for a few hours tonight just chatting with us and playing with the boys. They had so much fun with her and begged her to stay for a sleepover. They think my friends come over to hang out with them or something.
There are only a couple more weeks of school, and then Easton is off for the summer. I can’t explain how excited I am to not have to be somewhere every morning and afternoon. Now I know why parents and children always look forward to the summer. It was all the same to me before I had one in school. I will probably go crazy with Easton asking me for food ALL DAY LONG. He never stops being hungry or thinking he’s hungry. He gets done chewing his snack and says, “Now what can I have?” It’s enough to make me crazy some days. But it will be nice to be able to have fun together and not have to worry about picking him up from school at 11:30 every day.
I took this picture earlier in the week.
I always smile when I’m walking around the house and stumble upon creative little inventions like this. My boys are funny. They like to make weird things out of weird things. They like to collect random containers to put random weird things in. I go crazy with all the bags and boxes and canisters and things with lids that the boys somehow find in their possession. I hate messes and clutter, so these little things of theirs find their way to the trash whenever the boys aren’t looking. I’ve got a parmesan cheese container with holes poked in the top that is home to a pet caterpillar sitting downstairs on the ottoman as I type. I’m often annoyed by all these “things” that accumulate and clutter my countertops and floors, but on some days they make me smile when I think of my cute little boys and their sweet little boyhood. I love it. I love that I get to have a house full of darling little boys that love and adore their mama. Tonight when Rachel was here, Easton had said something about me doing something when he’s 80, and I told him that I’d be dead when he’s 80. Tears started streaming down his face and he ran and buried his head in my shoulder crying that he doesn’t want me to die. Not ever. It was so sad to him to think of, and it made me smile to think of how he just can’t bear the thought of living without me. Mothers are truly their children’s livelihood. And they are mine.
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