Thoughts of a "labor"ing mother

Whew, so remember that massive to-do list from last week?  Well I finally finished it.  On Saturday.  At which point my mind immediately chugged forward into this week's to-do list.  I guess that's just the way it goes sometimes...especially when you have distractions like this around...

Baby B has a thing for my shoes lately...Hubby T isn't quite as amused as I am!

So today, Labor Day, the day that our country takes a day off to celebrate the work we do all the rest of the year, I cleaned the entire bottom floor of my house and tore up all the remaining dying plants in my garden (I know I'm long overdue giving an update on that project, I'll add it to the list!) and reassembled the newly washed seats of the double stroller and made delicious Veggie Chili in Portaballa Caps and...ok, I'll stop.  You get my point, moms never rest!  I guess we already celebrated that earlier this year in May huh?:)

But what I really want to talk about, and probably what you really want to hear about, is these guys!

Although we've only had Baby D back for a couple days, they are both already hard at work being awesome 19 and 18 month old little boys.  I'm working on new blog names for them because although Baby B will always be my baby, it's really not an accurate description of them anymore!!  They run around the house constantly (although Baby D's run is more of a skipping run, hard to describe with words but completely adorable), they eat with forks, they prefer to be out of the stroller rather than in, and they climb stairs all on their own (yikes!).  Mercifully they both still nap for a couple hours every afternoon and, even more mercifully, it's at the same time.  My favorite moment from our first week back together was when Baby B hugged Baby D so hard they both ended up on the floor, still hugging, and laughing their heads off.  I'm going to do my best to recreate that moment and capture it on video camera!!

Ok, enough gushing about my little guys.  I have a whole week of them ahead of me.  Now it is time to go finish the orange date sweet rolls for breakfast tomorrow, help Hubby T put Baby B to bed, and enjoy an episode of our current favorite show, Friday Night Lights.  And hopefully all of this will be accomplished by 9:30 when we will turn our light off in hopes of getting 8 hours of sleep before the alarm goes off tomorrow morning at 5:30.  Hubby T is working at a high school this year which, as he says, "means that I'm leaving the house at the time I used to get out of bed last year!"  So, to help us all go to bed (and hopefully wake up) with a smile, here's a little bit of father-son silliness.  And here's to all you other "labor"ing moms out there...I hope you get as much satisfaction out of your work as I do.