The joys of boys!

My favorite part of any day is hanging out with the kiddos. It really doesn't matter how tired I am or what kind of day I have had, everything is right in the world once I am home with my boys. Luckily, most of my days are really good, but there is nothing like coming home to family when you are tired and need to smile.

James usually wakes up between 6am - 6:15am on weekdays. We have had to do a little tinkering to our morning routine, but it's nice to spend extra time with him. Brendan is usually still snoozing when we go in to get him ready for school. James loves to run in yelling "Good Morning Baby". We've been working on waking Brendan up without yelling, but to be honest, he does not really seem to mind. We get a smile from him right away which is so typical of B.

We load up in the car after everyone one is dressed and groomed with all the gear we need. We drive to work chatting and pointing out things to Brendan. We point out every stop sign, stop light and school bus. We count every bull dozer and I act as though I have never seen anything so amazing. We talk about how the sun rises in the east and how the sunrise looks like cotton candy. It is a special time that I really treasure. I drop the boys off at school and get their breakfast all ready so they can eat. Then I am off to work a few blocks away from their school.

I pick the boys up as soon as I can after work, sometimes even before 4pm.It makes our early mornings SOOO worth it! They are both loving their new school and are learning and lot and doing so many neat things. Once we get home we play and then James helps me cook dinner while standing on his stool. His favorite thing to make is breakfast for dinner...scrambled eggs, waffles and fruit. I can still manage to sneak sweet potatoes into the waffles but James is starting to look suspicious. Brendan sits in his high chair and just laughs and laughs at us. After they eat, we play in the playroom again. It has been so hot. We are all ready for fall weather so we can play outside again and resume our evening walks. Watching them play is lots of fun, especially when they start playing together or playing with me. Brendan will toddle over to me and hand me something and say "Look". I can't enough of him! James wants me to tickle him and I pretend to smell his little feet and Brendan will collapse in my lap doing his belly laugh to get some snuggles. Oh yes, these are the joys of boys!

We wrap up their day with a dunk in the tub. Sometimes I think it would be easier to hose them off in the yard! Bath time is so messy these days with water splish sploshing everywhere. I should just wear a wet suit. After bath time, we put on jammies and cozy up with books and music and singing and prayers. I love the feel of these little bodies melting into me at the end of the day. James likes to sing to B, usually the ABC song or Twinkle Twinkle or Itsy Bitsy Spider. I cannot believe the love these boys already have for each other. There is not a single day that goes by that I don't stop dead in my tracks and have this amazing revelation that these are MY beautiful boys! Somehow the feeling of awe and wonder of them never grows old. I will thanks to the Lord for these two miracles for the rest of my life and it will never be enough to express how I feel and how blessed I am to be called Mommy.

James and Brendan are both growing like weeds. Some times I catch a glimpse of them where I see a little peek of what they will look like when they are all grown up. It seems like every morning when James wakes up and comes to find me, he is taller. Brendan is walking more and more and will cheer himself on saying "Go B! Go B!". I have never seen something so precious. Oh yes, these are the days! These precious fleeting days!