Life Changes

Recently, Little Man and Sweet Girl have developed a new level of love.  He thinks she is Megan Fox and she thinks he is Justin Beiber. They have just started to play together, well more accurately play in the same vicinity as each other.   There are strict unwritten rules about this play time.  Each may touch their own toys, but the other is not allowed to branch into the other's area.   Coloring is for him.  Dolls are for her.  Neither appreciate it when the battle lines are crossed, unless the other is first "invited".    Our house is full of play and growth these days. We are working on coloring and colors.  AKA "Cocoring and Cocors" We are also working on crawling and sorting.  Different kids learning different things.  Little Man has crawling down.  This does not stop him from getting down on hands and knees and modeling for Sweet Girl. Currently they can not...

...well, thus far.  (this event is about 3 months old as well as the pics) One of my first outings out with two children on my own was to get both kids to Costco and then Main Man would meet us there.  Not hard.  Get two kids fed, dressed, clean diapered (is that a word?), strapped in car seats and drive 15 minutes, one kid in a shopping cart, one kid in a carrier.  Totally do able.  I can do this.  Looking back on this now, it really was an easy task.  At the time it seemed insurmountable.  Of course I was recovering from birth too at the time.  So maybe that made it harder. I did really well getting the kids out of the house.  Everyone was in clean outfits, which is a challenge when one spits up all the time.  Everyone in clean diapers, which is a challenge when one poops like a rocket all the time.  Everyone was in car seats, which means that 6 buckles were buckled without pinching any rolls of fat on chunky thighs. ...