Grandparents Galore

(Picture: Grandma Cindy and Boden shard some good times this week during her visit.)

This week Boden got lots of time with grandparents--my mom and Leo were here on Sunday/Monday and then he had his usual date with G'ma and G'pa Brown on Tuesday/Wednesday, and because they stayed an extra night before leaving on a short trip to Wisconsin, he spent time with them Thursday morning, as well. It was very nice to have extra helping and loving hands around. I was able to get a few more things done... without worrying that I wasn't enriching Boden's mind with new sensory experiences or building his vocabulary while I was folding laundry.

Being a parent is emotional, to say the least--I feel like I spend most of my time ricocheting between fear (Lots of unknowns out there. The other night, Boden's room was boiling so I cracked open a window around midnight after nursing him. We don't have a screen in, yet, so I spent 4 hours obsessing over whether or not a bat was going to squish its way through the crack, get into his room and bite him. It could happen.), guilt (I have been re-learning Spanish via Rosetta Stone for about a year--I wanted to be conversational at this point so I could talk to Boden in Spanish, but, alas, I am not that advanced, yet, so his sponge of a brain could be absorbing a second language, right now, and I have ruined that opportunity.) and insane joy (He is the most wonderful parody of a little old man I have ever seen. His mood swings are enough to make me wonder if either he or I should be medicated, but he's still really amazing--he's constantly evaluating, learning, growing...it's wonderul to witness).