It’s the eve of Charlotte’s first birthday and, for some reason, I find myself becoming a ball of emotions. I can’t believe how fast this year has gone by, but how some of the days seemed never-ending. Having two kids is something that I have not (and probably will not) mastered. It’s been challenging, to put it lightly. Even as I write this, during the rare occasion that they have overlapping naps, I’m still trying to figure out how we have made it to one year.
Our little Sass is just that. She’s spunky, sassy, needy and a petite little love bug. She’s just started occasionally sleeping through the night, but I’m not getting my hopes up that it will be permanent. She has her Daddy wrapped around her little finger. She refuses to walk and really wants nothing to do with it. I just tell everyone that she wants to put 100% of her focus into her mad speed crawling skills. She wants to be held constantly and will wrap herself around your leg while whining loudly anytime you put her down. She has four teeth, three of which came in at the same time within a week. She can train just about any adult that enters her lair…by holding her arms straight up to be picked up {she demonstrated this several times at her birthday party last weekend}.
Someone said to me today, “I can’t remember my life before kids.” That statement couldn’t be more true during this season of my life. I can’t remember what it was like to sleep in. I can’t remember what it was like to not consume a gallon of coffee each day. What the hell did I do with all my free time?! I think I used to nap…but I’m not quite sure. My work hours have extended into the evenings after the madness of bath and bedtimes. My days have morphed into a maddening existence, so that we can go to bed and get up and do it all over again. And at the end of each day, I sit back and think of the love in this house. There’s nothing like it and I wouldn’t change a thing. We’ve all survived a year as a family of four, and while it’s been a wild ride, we are forever blessed to have these amazing children. Happy birthday my sweet, sweet Charlotte.