The real reason I’m posting this today is because she, my late step-sister and the “you” of “hey you” in my last blog post, would fucking hate that last post, would hate that it’s been at the top of my blog for over two weeks. She wasn’t dark and dreary like me. She was sunlight and hope and perseverance and a whole host of other sparkly and wonderful things that I miss like hell and will forever miss like hell. So I’m writing something, maybe a little less inspired since there was a painful dearth of sugar consumption today, given the day. Not nearly enough black jelly beans or peanut butter chocolate eggs.
I think the big news here is that my boys wore ties! They looked like little prep school applicants or mini bankers, but holy risen son of of a Christian God were they cute.
They still don’t walk. They are 14 and a half months old, and I’m just beginning to think, huh, does it matter yet? When will it start to matter? It’s not like I want to rip my hair out chasing two toddling boys in different directions, but it’s got to happen at some point. And the whole not walking business does make Easter egg hunting a bit more of a chore, though they scored pretty well anyway.
Sometimes I’m amazed at the tenacity of time. Humbled by it, even.
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They’ll walk. Any minute now. Meanwhile, they’re expressing differential equations and advanced set theory with those stacking cups. The suspension bridge they’ve constructed between the toy chest and couch should be the giveaway, but we’re too dense to see it.
Why the hell is Graham glowing in that second picture?
OK, usually girl clothes way out-cute boy clothes, but I think you have even cute Easter dresses beat with the mini suits!
Oh, and remember they were five weeks early – so, really you could think of them as only 13 months old which is still on the somewhat early side for walking . That’s what I always tell myself when my girls don’t do something as soon as I think they should. I’ll probably be telling myself this when they are not doing as well in their AP calculus class as their full-term friends. In any case, once they start walking you will never sit down again except to collapse in exhaustion at the end of the day when they are finally contained in their cribs. So, enjoy the non-walking while it lasts.
your boys are so beautiful. and you are beautiful – you made me smile with one word. dearth.
been thinking about you, and your “hey you” post. can’t take my mind off of you.