one week from today.

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In one week, we will celebrate Dexter Jay’s 2nd birthday.  Hard to believe that two years ago I was just a week away from welcoming our second baby. Our second son.  And that we didn’t know if he would be a boy or a girl.  The last two years have been jam-packed with all things BOY, for sure.  It’s been a fun and interesting two years with lots of changes.  I can’t believe it’s already been a year since Dexter’s big 1st birthday party. It’s amazing how much faster time seems to pass once you have kids.  It’s easy to see how much can really change and how much a person can grow and develop and learn in a month or a year.  Dexter is an amazing, lively, energetic, happy little boy and I wouldn’t change one thing about him. 

That’s a lie. I’d make him sleep in a little later instead of always waking up between 5:30 and 6:30am every day.  But even with that being said, he’s healthy. He’s unique. He’s his own little person and such a huge part of our family.  So how could I even dream about changing that?  2 years already! Ryan has been saying he’s 2 for a couple of months now and I yell at him every time.  Let my baby be a baby.  I can still say he’s 1…and that sounds like a baby, even if I know he’s not. Something tells me when these kids are 10 & 11, we’ll think they were still babies at 2 & 3. 

xo,
~C~

i put down the camera

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I don’t know what happened.  I was rarely seen without my camera in my hand for months – maybe even a couple years. Lately, I don’t know what it is. I just haven’t wanted to lug it around.  And when I do, like the other night when I took it to a new park, I snap a couple of pics and then put it in the diaper bag.  This sucks.

Canon Rebel T2i {source}

I definitely WANT to keep taking pictures but I’m not sure when my passion fizzled. Maybe it’s partly because the kids are so hard to photograph lately. They never stop moving, sure don’t want to pose, and in no way think that their mama taking their picture 500 times is a priority.  Also, my hands are full of kids or I’m literally chasing after kids, which makes it hard to carry a camera.  

So then I hate blogging all the time with no pictures to share. So then I don’t blog as much, which I hate.  I guess maybe going to the gym and/or running outside after the boys go to bed has also cut into my “me” time. Time that I would have spent uploading and editing and blogging.  Can’t have it all, can we?

Quite a conundrum.  I know. If this isn’t a first world problem, I don’t know what is. 

xo,
~C~

com-beros

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I’ve gone on and on about how much I love Spring and how it’s [obviously] the most wonderful time of the year. You know what Theo says if you ask him why he likes this time of year?

The Com-beros. (It rhymes with Camaros, actually).
The Com-ber-bobbles.
The Bom-curvables.

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You know, convertibles. He looks for them everywhere. Now Dexter looks for them too. I try to get them excited about the Jeeps and motorcycles we see all over the place, but the elusive Com-bero…that’s really what he’s looking for.

The funny thing is that he had mastered the word Convertible last summer but since forgot how to say it. I think he secretly knows, but he also knows I think it’s cute when he messes words up. So for now, we’re on the hunt for those things. Com-beros and com-ber-bobbles, and especially bom-curvables.

xo,
~C~