crayoning

You get your babies up in the morning, give them their milk, change their diapers, and cuddle their pint sized selves. You take them to the coffee shop play area for the morning, have lunch, and put them down for a nap. You do a little thrift store shopping while grandma babysits, and bring home a toddler table and chairs that will do nicely with a coat of spray paint.

And then

you see that your babies are sitting in chairs and crayoning. They talk. They sometimes answer when you ask a question. They are using utensils. I think they might do our taxes and help sheetrock the attic later this year.

They are not babies.

When did this happen? It's a good thing I like them just as they are right now (perhaps except the biting and tantruming and the whining and Jesus gay, toddler diapers are rank), because otherwise it'd be breaking my heart.

__________________________________________

Yesterday I was finishing up their baths, and I let one boy run all nekkie into the living room while I pulled O out from the tub. It took a moment longer than expected to finish up with O, because evil mama wouldn't let him deposit a magazine into the still full bath, a magazine which was about parenting, and specifically had an article about manners in it, as well as maybe potty training and whining, and tantrums and which full well deserved to be deposited into a vat of warm dirty bathwater, and when I came into the living room, I found N looking intently at something. Upon closer inspection, I found him carefully holding his toothbrush in a stream of his own pee. If I had come in a minute later, I never would have known he did that, and would have used said toothbrush to brush his teeth.

One must always be grateful for close calls. Or maybe that "what you don't know won't kill you" thing. I prefer grateful.

Comments

[desitin's child]

Hee hee!
We have "naked time" after bath too. So far no toothbrush incidents - or maybe I just came into the room a minute too late.
Still chuckling...

[Writer Chica]

Oh, I remember the day I realized Toddler wasn't a baby anymore. It was at about 18 months. He was walking and talking and feeding himself and I just knew we were in a new phase.

funny about the toothbrush! Toddler hasn't pee'ed on his but occasionally I have to thrown one out because he sticks into the little drain hole at the top of the sink. Ick.

[Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah]

I always wondered what the other one was doing out there in the living room while I'm finishing up with their twin.

Now I know. Gross.

[macboudica]

I prefer the expression "ignorance is bliss!"

[Melissa @ Organized Chaos]

Hey! Another twin mom here (of course) :) Babies really do seem to just grow up overight don't they? Seems like you blink and they're 3ft tall and ready to drive.

[Laura]

Oh, I can just picture his angelic little face as he held that toothbrush. No harm, no foul, right?

[Mardougrrl]

Hee! I love that!

I am so looking forward to the happy day when Madam is doing all of those things. N and O are an inspiration to A. ;)

[MomSquared]

Oh man. Nobody could understand the joy of twins like another twin mom!