Maybe it's because I know we are entering in to another transition. Sienna will be three years old next month. Three is just different. You definitely are not a baby anymore. You are on the precipice of going to real school. It's just different. It's older. And there's no way around it.
Price and Maddox are about to walk and they will be one year old in a few months. Again...another HUGE transition in childhood. They are so smushy and cuddly and innocent and IN LOVE with me right now. With walking comes more independence, and with independence comes more resistance and exerting of wills.
I'm not ready. I want to bottle them up. I want to NOT FORGET. There are certain things I remember about Sienna when she was the boys' age (9 months). But why don't I remember more? How could I have forgotten? It pains me and puts me in to a panic that I won't recall what they were like right here and now. What do I do? How DO you remember?
Outside of being sentimental, July was an incredible month. We started July off at one of my favorite (also sentimental) places in the world...Camp Kulaqua in High Springs, FL. Matt made the very brave and humble decision to serve as a camp counselor for twenty-two 8th graders. Yes...twenty-two 8th graders. My mom, dad, Sienna, the boys, and I all went up for just one night to see him and visit the place where my memories start at around 3 or 4 years of age all the way up through college. I love Camp Kulaqua. I cherish the hilarious, sweet, peaceful, and exciting moments I have had there.
July is also home to my favorite holiday, the 4th of July! We went to a parade where we were rained on followed by the thick humidity that made us sweat like pigs. So naturally it was the perfect way to spend the 4th : )
My Beachbody business boomed this month. I more than doubled the coaches I had underneath me, had 35 Success Club points, and rank advanced to Diamond. I realize this doesn't mean much to most people reading this, but just know I am dumbfounded, grateful, humbled and thrilled by such an exciting month for me in my business. I am so looking forward to what my Beachbody future holds for me!
Sienna Spotlight:
I had a red starburst and she had picked an orange one. Of course then she decided she wanted the red one (my favorite), wrenched it out of my hand, gave me the orange one and then said, "See, we are sharing!"
Price's nose started bleeding (we still don't know why), and Sienna started crying and sobbed, "But he's my favorite boy!" Ahhh...the truth comes out! : )
I was singing "Let It Go" in the car and I could see her just staring blankly at me from her carseat. Finally she says, "You don't sing good."
As I was getting her ready for bed, I pulled out a pair of Christmas pajamas that she had pooped in a few month prior. She told me she couldn't sleep in those because she had pooped in them. But I reassured that it was okay because I washed them. After looking at me very SKEPTICALLY, she said smartly, "Let me smell them."
Sienna told me her stomach hurt, so I asked her if she needed to go potty. She said no. Five minutes later, she changed her mind, and went. As she was finishing up, I asked her if her tummy felt better. She said, "No, I still miss my Daddy."
I was trying to convince Sienna to wear this particular shirt. I bribed her, begged her, and finally wore her down. She looked at me and absolutely exasperated said, "ALRIGHT!" She actually stunned Matt and I in to silence because she literally sounded 16 years old.
I looked underneath the couch to get a plastic ball for the boys, and found all of our spanking sticks underneath! Someone's been trying to hide them! : )
Double Trouble:
Both boys are crawling and pulling up now! Maddox crawled about two weeks earlier than Price, but both started pulling up at the same time.
I LOVE the sound of Maddox's little hands and knees scurrying across the floor, especially when I can hear him pick up the pace because he's excited about something (usually me)!
Maddox gets very excited to see me and will crawl right up to me and try to climb up my leg.
Maddox loves the dishwasher. He hears me open that thing from across the room, and here he comes! What's funny is that it reminded me that Sienna used to LOVE the dishwasher too!
Price loves doors. He will sit at the door and swing it back and forth.
I love the way Price talks. It's these very manly sighs and grunts. We have whole conversations that way.
Maddox follows Sienna and I around like a puppy.
