The boys have worked diligently to take care of me in their own ways. Santiago told his brothers to "be nice to mami" because I was not surrounded by attention. Joshua has been cuddling with me on my rocking chair and Samuel has been reading to me. I especially love this because he just brings his favorite stories over and guesses at the words based on the pictures he sees. He's so creative it always makes me smile.
Ben has also worked to give me the weekend so he has taken the boys to the park and store while I was at home trying to sleep despite the horrible coughing and miserable headache, so there has been a few good days of "male bonding." The boys have had a great time with papi and we have some new pictures for the one year post-placement homestudy. My favorite is below:
It's hard to imagine that it has almost been a year with us. They have all grown so much both physically and emotionally! I can hardly believe that our boys have changed so very much:
Aren't they cute little men? It feels so strange to be able to look back like this and really think about how far we have come as a family.
We're heading up to visit Ben's family to celebrate our one year anniversary as a family in August. We'll make sure to post some pics of the whole family together!
Welcome back to the blogging world! I have often wondered what was going on with your family. I love following families with boys in particular - boys are alot of fun, but alot of work too!! That first year is such a time of intense parenting, that it really does seem to take most of your time and energy and just getting the basics done is sometimes all that is possible. It does get easier and I know that now that you can look back on this first year you can see how far everyone has come. In another year it will look even more amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving us a glimpse of your beautiful family.
Karen