Love/not so much

I have been obsessed with this thought since Sunday morning when a well meaning lady at church asked if Lenorah was sleeping through the night.  I REALLY do not LOVE that question.  Are there seriously babies who sleep through the night?  Who are they?  I want to call their parents at 2:00 a.m. when I am up with one/both of my children and or dogs for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th time of the night.  Who are these amazing babies???  Lenorah sleeps well I think, she wakes up one or two times a night.  Dietrich still wakes up one or two times a night.  So I wake up 1-4 times per night, on average.  Bryce: here is the reason you think I might be losing my mind.

Lately I have a knack for doing really stupid things.  Like leaving an open beer sitting on the floor where children who can walk and now crawl can easily get to it, what sane mother would do that?  Then I stab myself with a sharp fork thingy while trying to hurry and do dishes so that I can get back to whatever other stupid thing I left laying around so that the kids could make a big mess and Bryce calmly asks me "are you okay?"  Clearly not.  But to be clear, I'm not whining!  I love this whole being a mom crazy thing.  It entertains and challenges me daily.  I also pray a lot more than I used too, lots of "please give me patience and help me to parent my children well Lord."  It's good, and I will totally do it again.

So while I H-A-T-E (shhh we don't use that word in front of children) being asked if my baby sleeps through the night, No, and neither does my toddler, thank you so much for reminding me! (insert crazy mom eyes), there are so many things that I L-O-V-E!!!

I LOVE how Dietrich watches the same Monster truck show every day, and now he can recite it!
How he told me all about trains and dark tunnels when I told him he's awesome.
That Lenorah can crawl at just over 6 months old and since she learned that two days ago she now thinks it's time to climb things.
That Dietrich only wants to take a bath with Lenorah.
That although I risk them waking each other up, I love that they share a room.  They get to be close and not alone.
How Dietrich wakes up and says "awake now mama!  Baby awake?"
That Lenorah doesn't want to nap because she wants to play with Dietrich.

Most days life is just life, you are just living, getting through another day, but some days you look at it all and it's just pretty awesome, and funny.