love them

Carmen loves to take my digital camera around the house and take pictures of random stuff.  Every once in a while, when I am going through and cleaning them out I find a few gems.

I guess Mose was her subject of the day because she got some really cute shots of him.

Pay no attention to the mess… I swear, it’s never like that.  ahem.

But seriously, is he handsome or what?

He is getting so big.  It is blowing my mind a little bit.   He is now pulling up to stand… and then promptly slipping down whatever he is standing against and thumping his noggin.  I can already tell he is going to have a permanent bruised forehead from now until three years old.

He now has 2 bottom teeth, and he is working on the third one, which is coming in on top.  I am going to miss that gummy grin.  It is so sad to see my baby start to disappear… yet so thrilling to see them accomplish new things on the journey to becoming their own people.  Man, this parenting thing. Wild.  I don’t think I’ll ever feel like I cuddled them enough, even if I did it ’round the clock.

Carmen is also amazing to me.  The stuff she comes up with is always so surprising.  She comes home with cute songs and sayings from preschool all the time.  She is getting so smart, and can now count well into her 30s.  Except, of course, for twenty-thirteen, and thirty-thirteen (in place of twenty-three and thirty-three).  Still impressive though, and I can see where she would get confused.

I just love them.  I am so happy I get to be their mom, and not someone else’s mom.