Big Baby Little Baby

As we've gotten a couple of weeks into the school year, I'm enjoying being back into a little bit of a schedule. We are still pretty flexible when it comes to the actual hours we do school each day, but I've been enjoying the specific time with the older two. Even if there are lots of interruptions from the two "babies" in the family.

The big baby, as you can see, is still baby enough that he needs a nap. Sometimes he needs a nap after his nap. When I took the picture above, we had done school and gone to the park and run by the library and come home for naps. He woke up from his nap, fussed with his siblings for a few minutes, and then I found him like this in Amaryllis's room. Poor guy. It's tough being 2 and a half.

The little baby, on the other hand, likes to boycott naps as much as possible. Or only take naps on mommy. I'm kinda ok with her need for snuggling, though. I'm sure that won't last long enough. And with those eyeballs looking at you who could say no? (Brief reflux update....she seems to be doing better these days. I'm hesitant to say anything definitive, but we've had about 5 good days in a row. That is unprecedented around here. She still has little fits here and there, but no screaming for hours recently.)

While it's definitely tough herding all these wild cats, and I feel like things like this blog and the laundry and my dirty floors and my need for sleep are suffering for a bit until we get more settled, I am really loving this phase with all four of them. I think they can stay my (big and little) babies for as long as they want.