Erin's Entourage: Grace

She was only 2 when the twins were born. Still a baby herself. I feel like we absorbed every single tiny moment with Grace until the twins were born. We noticed everything and made a big deal about everything. After we had the twins we stopped noticing every single tiny moment. It makes me sad. Because as hard as we try, and even if we spend every second that we aren't changing a baby diaper, or feeding them, or putting them to sleep, or whatever...with Grace, some details are still lost in the hustle and bustle of things.

I got thinking about this the other day after we had a trip to the pool as a family of five. Mike and I were chasing the twins around the pool. They like to get in and out of the baby pool and walk all around the cement. They still stumble quite a bit and they are just busy, busy, busy! Basically it's just not very relaxing and we are running around like crazy people. In the meantime Grace is playing in the baby pool and yelling for us to watch her do this or watch her do that. When before we had all the time in the world to watch her now a lot of the little things get missed. I have no regrets, because you can't plan for the unexpected and twins...ummm not so expected, but the best surprise ever. But it just makes it hard to swallow the fact that you will just have WAY less time with your precious first born.

The other day Grace asked me "When are the bubbies going away?"....ughhh it kills me. I know this stage will pass and soon they will all be running around playing together, but for now it's tough.

I prefer the days when she tell me "Mom, I really like the bubbies" Almost as if she is trying to convince me! It cracks me up.

Here are some pictures from the last week (Pool, zoo, fair!) I guess she is not as neglected as I thought. She looks pretty happy :-) I just have Mommy guilt..

Fun at the zoo with Joe!