we’re a happy family

see the resemblance?

ok, not really.

but wow.

i created this blog to remember more about these times in our family, and we do occasionally do things other than redecorate, so here is a post about the past three or four weeks.

those of you that know me, that know my son, know that he has been mellow most of his life. he was a mellow newborn, i mean, he cried, don’t get me wrong, but he was fairly easily soothed by nursing or going outside, and granted, i spent the first year of his life exhausted from the effort (oh yeah, and starting grad school and finding out that my gestational diabetes had not gone away, and all that). but he was not “high needs” or anything like that. he would sleep in his sling or stroller anytime, really. i could go anywhere with him, he was my little sidekick.

this continued for a long time. well, really until about a month ago. he is almost four. will be four in a matter of DAYS, actually. and last month a lot of things changed. he lost some important aspects of his routine, mostly his mondays with geneva and her family. it was bound to happen, i say this only because it was entirely too perfect to last. and it didn’t. nothing perfect lasts. perfection is a myth! haha.

an aside about geneva, my amazing, dynamic, tireless, organic, unschooling, homebirthing, inspiring friend, who has been the only non-family member to keep my child for me with any regularity since his birth, and has done so for the past two years. she has him right now, actually. she just needed a break from the every monday structure and i respect that. but really, if i could afford to offer her $100 an hour to be my only childcare, i would. that is it. she is awesome and her kids are awesome (all three of them!) and vincent is so happy and safe with her. geneva, such a good friend and mama.

anyway, vincent has been having temper tantrums. for the first time. we had no terrible twos, no trying threes. i know that these fits are very age-appropriate, and they will pass, and they are all about his new levels of independence and the inconsistency of our family schedule…(our schedules are the same every week, but not every day. this is hard for a four year old to get. mondays we do this, tuesdays we do that…a week is a long time for them. they are like goldfish.)

i need to fall back and regroup.

all of that, on a monday, and to top it off, literally, my cowlick won’t quit! gimme a break.

cow. lick.

on an up note, the trip to IKEA with the remnants of last year’s gift cards was FRUITFUL and AWESOME, and wednesday morning, i am going to get to work on the last part of the playroom redesign. SO excited.