This afternoon, I had the rare opportunity to have one kid awake at a time. It seemed like all summer, I spent A LOT of time trying to synchronize Ella's and Eli's naps. I FINALLY made it work, and then went back to school. Now I get home and everyone is asleep, which makes me sad. (The grass is always greener, I suppose....) When I got home today though, Ella was asleep and Eli wanted attention. I was only too happy to focus on just him for awhile. Here's a video I took of him. He was just so happy that I picked him up and played with him. Fair warning, he's extrememly adorable throughout this video, although it's 3:30.
About 20 minutes after Eli's video debut, he became tired and I rocked him to sleep. After that, I did a few things around the house and finally woke up Ella. She helped me "cook" dinner. This meant that she picked grapes off the stem and put them in a bowl. She also assembled a Caesar salad for us and watched me cook grilled cheese sandwiches (and helped unwrap the cheese). Here's a picture of her helping. The apron she's wearing was made by my Grandma Revenaugh about 30 years ago.
Gosh, I love them so much my heart aches for them. It was such a nice afternoon, definitely much better than the monotonous, pick the kids up from wherever, store milk, wash pump, figure out dinner, bathe kids, bedtime routine, and repeat. It was wonderful to actually get to enjoy them for the evening. Hopefully, I'll be able to figure out our schedule a little better so we can have more afternoons like today.
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