A Little Break Or Maybe A Biggish One

Just stopping in to say that I might not be around here much in the next week or so. Summer visitation is coming up. Levi will be leaving Friday for a couple of weeks. I'm trying not to think about it. I'm trying to make myself a really long to do list, so I'll be too busy to think about it while it's happening. I may reorganize all of our closets again for the 3rd or 4th time since getting pregnant.

Until Friday, though, I'm going to focus on these sweet faces. After all, this is likely to be  one of the last weeks we get as a family of four.

Soon we'll be adding one more goofball to the mix.

I love how he can go from looking super debonair to totally dorky in just a few minutes. I pretty much just love everything about him, and I'm really going to miss his face...and his hugs.

Sunday

And Jesus, looking upon them, said, “With men it is impossible, but not with God; for with God all things are possible.” 
~Mark 10:27

A Bum Arm, A Little Drama, And A Sweet Solution

Levi is our sensitive one. In some ways this can be endearing, in some ways maddening, and in some ways just flat out funny. Even the tiniest scrape can cause days of tears and comments such as, "Mama! I have a scrape!! It's NEVER going to get better!!!". Last night he got a pretty big scrape...one that certainly would have brought tears to my own eyes. When I had made peace with the fact that bedtime was inevitably going to be pushed back at least an hour due to the screaming and crying, Stephan came up with a brilliant plan. He offered to put Levi's arm in a sling....

And, then there was instant calm. Normal bedtime reading rituals resumed...

All was right with the world.

Levi got in bed with his sling clad arm and asked for a sip of water. Stephan brought it to him, and Levi said (in the most dramatic voice ever), "I need some help. I'm sorry. I only have one arm...forgive me." Ha! Seriously? Where does he come up with stuff like that?

For safety purposes I removed the sling once he fell asleep, but it totally did the trick. He mentioned his scrape a few times today but there were no tears involved and he didn't seem as concerned as he usually would be. I guess I'll have to learn how to tie up a makeshift sling for the bumps and bruises that happen when Stephan isn't around.