Hazel is nearly 3 – just 2.5 months shy of turning 3 – and she is talking up a storm. Her personality is really showing. Margot is 6 weeks and growing fast; she’s this squishy little sweetheart that hates the carseat but still seems a little more mellow than Hazel as a baby.
Though these days are truly truly tough, between balancing the needs of a newborn with the constant needs of a toddler, and in between that trying to juggle married life too, these are some of the most beautiful days I have ever felt.
A few days this week, we went to a park to either have a picnic dinner or just to run around. Hazel loves running around and she giggled and squealed up a storm. At one of those days, a cover band was playing ‘Sweet Child of Mine’ from Guns and Roses. I looked down at Hazel as we were sitting on the lawn, the cool California evening weather surrounding us, and it was just a great feeling hanging out with this sweet child of mine, this little cherubic thing that likes running in circles on the grass, ‘winning’ when we race, Trader Joe samples, farmer’s markets, the Bubble Man, dancing, all of it.
A few sweet things she’s said to me in the last few weeks:
-"Mommy, I love you, you’re really nice."
-"I like playing with Daddy"
-In answer to what was her favorite part of the day when we went to San Diego Wild Animal Park: "hanging out with Mommy and Daddy"
-"I like snuggling with Mommy"
-"Mommy, you snuggle me and I’ll snuggle my bear"
-"On leaving Margot at the Farmer’s market (when we pretended to leave Margot off the list of things we needed to take back to car when packing up from the Farmer’s Market): "If we forget Margot, I’ll be really sad because I won’t get to play with her, and I’ll be really really sad."
-"I have an idea…"
