Emma's crawling now. It's great, she loves exploring. It makes watching her a bit harder because I am worried what she will find on the floor or if she can pull something down on top of her. The boys' toys--a million parts to everything! I try to separate the small parts and have them keep it in their room but inevitably we miss a part or toys migrate back to the livingroom. So I am trying to be diligent and always on the look out.
Ryan is still great. Enjoying school, learning to cut with scissors and wants to do worksheet after worksheet (I think he is trying to emulate Drew). He also occassionally comes to me in the middle of the night and asks to climb into bed with us. I love it. Our bed isn't big enough to hold any more than 1 child with us in it, so it's hard if Drew and Ryan both want to climb in. But I love the cuddles. And I know it will end too soon.
Andrew is good but anxious. He knows far too much about scary things and it plagues his mind at night. He tries so hard to be "good" and make good decisions but sometimes he has just had enough and goes off the deep end. Bill and I are trying to give him as stable, quiet, fun home life as we can to counterbalance his anxiety about the big, wide world.
I made a new year's resolution to do less. It's working ok. Cooking less, arts and crafts less etc. It has given me more time to get on the floor and play with the kids instead of cooking or doing bills. I like that I acknowledge now that playtime is an important part of the day for the kids and they like having me involved (cause sometimes I feel lazy sitting on the floor to play legos for an hour....) BUT, it's never ending. Even by taking stuff off my plate, life hasn't slowed down much. I think I need to adjust that this is the speed at which we run now!
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