Life with Two
Everyone asks how the adjustment to 2 kiddos is going. Ah, Life with Two. Life with two is a mix. It is animated, and it is tired. It is feeling utterly content one moment, and totally fried the next. It is frequently running behind, and struggling with sentences, and typically being covered in spit up and a little extra deodorant. It is wonderful. One minute, you can barely hold your eyes open because it was an every-hour-and-a-half-kind-of-night, and the next, you’re wide awake because your kid just smiled at you. We forgot the bleariness an infant’s sleep (or lack there of) brings, but we also forgot how fast babies learn and grow at this stage, and watching yours yawn and sneeze and discover her hands and voice is no less amazing the second time around. It is all new, yet totally familiar. It’s like going for a hike we haven’t been on in years, but suddenly we see these landmarks we recognize, and every memory associated with it jumps forward, brushing the rust o...