We're in countdown mode

[SIZE=10pt]Yep ~ we're in the countdown to their FIRST birthday

Only 7 more sleeps until my lil kiddos are ONE!! (and quite a few other lil ones here) Where in the heck has the time gone? I can't help but miss so many things these days. All the cuddling time, holding them while they're nursing/bottling, just watching them sleep, etc

Of course I'm looking forward to some as well: Their first steps, actual walking, more words and plenty more.

I'm just feeling a lil reminiscent today...getting ready for their birthday and party! I can't put into words how much I love them!!

Ok...sappy post done (for now )

April [/SIZE]

 

It's so funny that you posted this because I feel the same way!!! The boys birthday decorations and invitations just came in the mail yesterday, and I feel so happy/sad about it! I can't believe how fast the past year went!! Then I think about how fast next year will go by..... :unsure:

We have been doing CIO for awhile now so I NEVER rock the boys to sleep anymore ..... except for last night he he he!!! Logan was crying for awhile after I put him down and I went in, laid him down and gave him his paci and he looks up at me with this face I can't discribe. So.....I picked him up and said "ok just for tonight". It felt SOOOOO good to hold him and rock him to sleep!!! I must have held him for two hours!!!

So I hope your party goes good, even though its a bitter sweet day!!!
Jen

 

That first birthday was so bittersweet for me. I was excited that they were finally turning one, but I missed some of the nicer, more cuddly, baby things terribly. And since there are two to deal with, the cuddle time seemed so much less for me than I wanted. I still just try to enjoy each day as much as I can. But I can tell you that that second year is so much more fun, for me at least. You have some great things to look forward to!

 

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We have been doing CIO for awhile now so I NEVER rock the boys to sleep anymore ..... except for last night he he he!!! Logan was crying for awhile after I put him down and I went in, laid him down and gave him his paci and he looks up at me with this face I can't discribe. So.....I picked him up and said "ok just for tonight". It felt SOOOOO good to hold him and rock him to sleep!!! I must have held him for two hours!!!

Jen


[SIZE=10pt]Peyton has been fighting a tooth popping through and has been waking up in the middle of the night. Last night I went in and he gave me the 'look' too I ended up rocking him and snuggling with him for about 30 minutes or so. I just didn't want to put him back in his crib. That is until I saw Alexis pop her head up....hmmm ~ end of that. I didn't need both babies up for who knows how long

April [/SIZE]

 

I am not there yet, but 2 months away! With Emily, I couldn't wait til her first birthday. With the twins, I can wait. The other night when I gave Claire her night bottle, she was just hanging with me, laying in my arms. The days of them falling asleep in my arms and so vague. These months have gone so quickly.

April

 

gosh, april, i KNOOOOWWW!!

i've been having mini-mournings all week, about how they won't be little anymore!! to add to it, i went to see a friend who just had her baby last friday, and she is so teeny, she is as big as Bear was when he was born aaaaaaaaaaaawwww i want mine to be little again!! (but sleeping LOL)

here's to the next wonderful year!!

sandra

 

:hug99: I was the BIGGEST sap right before the girls turned 1. Thankfully I had a house full of guests and a party to distract me or else I would have been a puddle of tears the entire week. I was so happy they were turning 1 and that we 'survived' the first year, but I also sad to say goodbye to all the tiny baby things (especially since they may be our only children). But there are so many amazing things right around the corner- walking, talking, communicating needs (aside from talking), learning crazy hillarious things everyday! Its all good. But :hug99: momma. You aren't alone.

 

My boys' birthday was yesterday. Here is the post that I put up on another listserve. In my opinion, sappy and sentimental is a given at this time:

So tomorrow is the big day and I'm feeling so much right now. I don't want to go to sleep because I'm not ready for it to be their first birthday. I so love who they are right now, their round little bellies, their cheeks like ripe peaches - round and firm and soft, their little voices babbling away, their range of laughter from a little 'heh' to a giggle, a chuckle, then a belly laugh like they can't contain it. I felt so much love for them this evening that I thought I was going to die of love - that there was no way my body could hold that much love. Do they know? Do they know how much love I have for them, and not only me, so many others. They have smiled their way into so many hearts from the woman who runs the thai restaurant up the street to the nannies who ask mine if I maybe want to have 2 nannies so they can be with them. From my family that cherish them to my darling egg donor who I think really gets them, really loves them more than
anybody else next to me.

I can't go to sleep and have it tomorrow. I can't feel any more than I feel now. I'm full. I want to capture this feeling so they know. If it could be shown in a picture, a video, if I could hug them and transfer it into them I'd do it. But it won't work. So I send it out to all of you to at least be my witnesses as I give testimony to the miracle that is them and to their first year of life.

Can't get much sappier than that! Happy birthday Alexis and Peyton

 

Awww, you brought tears to my eyes. :wub: I remember those feelings all too well. I couldn't wait to get out of the first year, but yet I was sad to see it go.

As Emily said, it is very bittersweet. :hug99:

 

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My boys' birthday was yesterday. Here is the post that I put up on another listserve. In my opinion, sappy and sentimental is a given at this time:

So tomorrow is the big day and I'm feeling so much right now. I don't want to go to sleep because I'm not ready for it to be their first birthday. I so love who they are right now, their round little bellies, their cheeks like ripe peaches - round and firm and soft, their little voices babbling away, their range of laughter from a little 'heh' to a giggle, a chuckle, then a belly laugh like they can't contain it. I felt so much love for them this evening that I thought I was going to die of love - that there was no way my body could hold that much love. Do they know? Do they know how much love I have for them, and not only me, so many others. They have smiled their way into so many hearts from the woman who runs the thai restaurant up the street to the nannies who ask mine if I maybe want to have 2 nannies so they can be with them. From my family that cherish them to my darling egg donor who I think really gets them, really loves them more than
anybody else next to me.

I can't go to sleep and have it tomorrow. I can't feel any more than I feel now. I'm full. I want to capture this feeling so they know. If it could be shown in a picture, a video, if I could hug them and transfer it into them I'd do it. But it won't work. So I send it out to all of you to at least be my witnesses as I give testimony to the miracle that is them and to their first year of life.


:cray:

I didn't feel this way with Nadia, because I knew I'd have more children, and I'd get to experience the miraculous first year again. But these are my last babies, and I am just a mess.

Happy, happy birthday to all our munchkins! I'm so glad I'm in the company of such cool women -- and cute babies! -- moving to 1-4 at the same time!