normal?

Life is finally getting back to normal. We have been an official family of 4 for the past 24 hours...the in-laws left yesterday afternoon. No more help. If you asked us last night, we would have said we were crazy to have our children 2 years apart. Oh, man...The Mayor. I love that kid more than life itself, but between normal 2 year old behavior and acting out a bit because he isn't getting all of the attention...yikes. Last night we looked at each other and asked, should we have had them closer together or farther apart? Because 2 years seems to be crazy. He doesn't quite get it and he can't verbalize his emotions so we are getting a lot of screaming. Just screaming. He will be happy or mad...and be standing in the middle of the room and just yell until we look at him. And the more you say "inside voice please" the more he screams. So we started ignoring him when he yells and then he stops. But waiting until he stops...geez. Last night we were wondering if our sweet boy would ever return to us...or have we lost him forever?

But today our sweet Mayor returned. He was his normal self all day today (with the 30 minute exception when a friend dropped off dinner, then he started acting out for some attention). But other than that 30 minutes, our sweet boy had returned. Praying so hard he has returned for good! Hopefully with the house quiet and no guests, life can return to normal and we can find our groove. At least daddy is off all week so we can just hang out together as a family of 4 and spend the week spoiling both of our sweet babies with lots of love and attention.

daddy and his girl