First on the list, nap! No, I am not kidding and those of you who know us well will be shocked to know that the "nap" time was not hubby's idea! I was exhausted with capital E! So, we came home from dropping off the kids and we both crashed out for about two hours!
I woke up and starting making a nice dinner before our movie (since this diet won't really allow eating out). Then, the phone rang. It was a sound I didn't want to hear and kinda knew it was mom. Sure enough, Piper was miserable. She had a runny nose and a cough and just wanted to be held. So, we ate our dinner in the living room (a novelty when the kids aren't home) and then I went to round up the kiddos.
I walked into my parents house to find my cowboy lasso'ing g'pa into the "barn" (bedroom) and having a blast! Blake was so excited to sleep over and mama Connie and grandpa Fred's I knew he was going to be heartbroken if he had to go home early and I don't DARE tell him it was Piper's fault! So, mom said she still wanted to keep Blake and he was thrilled!
We got home and it was just Piper, daddy and mommy! We got out all of the "hot" toys (aka: the toys that blake always snags from her when she starts to play, there are about 5 of them). We played. We got out all of the balls for the ball popper and let her play with them ALL, we got her to walk back and forth to us (holding our hands), all of the things she LOVES to do but sometimes having an older sibling prohibits. It was a great feeling! Piper was so happy and we could spend all of our un-devoted attention on her without feeling guilty or preoccupied.
I love, love, love our date nights and I always look forward to them, but last night my heart was filled in another way. A better-for-the-moment way.
Sometimes I feel bad for the second child. The attention is there because she is so adorably sweet and cute how could it not be, but there is always something else going on, noises in the background. I remember by this age, I read books to Blake every night. However, with Piper, because of her bedtime and Blake's we have yet to start doing that. The other culprit, she's so easy! It is so much easier to let her just play on the floor with toys than it ever was with Blake. Sometimes, it really bothers me how it is so different for the second and I never, ever want her to feel second best - nothing could be farther from the truth.
BUT, then you have the good things, she gets to start yummy foods earlier because I am not scared to try them, she gets all kinds of toys both hers and Blake's, she has a fun, energetic loving older brother who is always "on" and teaching her even when mommy isn't, she has someone to laugh with/at right now, play with in the years coming soon, and always have in her life forever, even when we are gone.
Two kids are hard, but it is so true; twice the work, twice the reward!
So, yes last night did not go as planned (nothing ever really does right?) BUT Plan B was SO much more
desired than Plan A, and I didn't even know it!
*This is the last photo I can find where it is just us and Piper*
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