Reasons to be grateful

I feel grateful most days that I get to be home with my babies during these very special years. However, I have to admit that there are "those" days when it just seems like it might be easier (on me!) to go to work. You know, drive in the car and listen to my own music without screaming in the background, take a bathroom break without kids crawling all over me, go out to lunch and not completely shove it all in my mouth while wiping kids and saving drinks from falling on the floor ... these are the simple pleasures that on some days seem appealing.


But today I was reminded yet again about how lucky I am to be home. After all, if I were not home even just for the three work days that have made up this week so far, I would have missed this...:


Luke came to me today and showed me that he had written his name. I almost couldn't believe it because it was completely unprompted and we haven't really "worked" on doing this. So, you'll see in the 2nd photo I asked him to go and do it again so that I could watch - and sure enough, no problem writing his own name. The 3rd picture is a self-portrait to go along with his name.

...and this:

Mia pulled herself up to stand in her crib on Monday during nap. Since then, she has been busy pulling up on just about everything. She's also crawling faster by the day and that whole belly-to-sitting thing ... yep, that's no problem either (and not an "accident" like I mentioned in my previous post last week). She is EVERYWHERE :)