16 months!!!

Ok....exhale. I promised you wouldn't turn blue :)

Today my boys are 16 months and fully into toddler hood.....take a deep breath....and....release. That is how the days go.

Anyone who is currently raising their kids, or is watching their kids raise their kids, appreciate what Mothers of toddlers go through. Think about it times two.

Somedays I come home from work and all is peaceful.....but I can tell it wasn't so at some point. The lamp from the living room is now on the dining room table, the basket of diapers and creams no longer resides on its place on the side table in the living room....and other times as soon as I open the door, the whining slaps me in the face and Glenn is running to hide.

At times it is hard to appreciate that they are healthy and happy even though they were two months premature.

Especially when Gavin heads to the DVD player, when he knows you are too far away to get him, and turns it off and on, and off and on.....all the while looking at you and smiling!

Then there is Riley who has mastered climbing....the couch has had to be moved away from the open stairs to under a window. This child is on the couch and hanging from the back if it before you can blink. Then before you can get to him he is running the length of the couch. Glenn couldn't find him one day and could hear crying, he had fallen behind the couch and was stuck. Quick as lightening that child.

There are times I just get tired thinking about all they do in a day. Just as you have rescued one, the other one is doing something else they aren't supposed to.

But this is also a good age....Glenn is currently tearing apart our deck. Gavin isn't a great helper, but Riley is. As Glenn scrapes the deck, Riley will pick up the loose bits and put them in the garbage. Gavin just tends to eat it.

Oops, my lunch was over about 10 minutes ago, more soon.