The Cornelius Family

152 Days

…since you were born!!! That’s 5 whole months since you turned our world upside down (in a good way)! What a busy month you have had. You started solids, rolling over like crazy, babbling and talking up a storm, blowing raspberries, and taking a bath in mommy’s tub! You went to your first Farmer’s Market on the square, celebrated your Nana’s birthday, and finally had multi-night stretches of sleeping through the night. You LOVE your exersaucers and have all but stopped using your bouncers and swing…you are growing up! You have tried green beans, peas, squash, sweet potatoes, pears, peaches, oatmeal cereal, rice cereal, and your favorite things at dinnertime…MUM MUMS!!! I give them to you in your high chairs while I get your baby food ready and you just gnaw and chew and gobble them up. This month also marked mommy going back to work for the first time in your little lives and it was a difficult transition for us all…ok, just me really. But we have found a wonderful lady, JuJu, who keeps you everyday and she loves you like you were her own. This month was also a tough one in the illness department. At one point all 4 of us were sick. Sister, you had a double ear infection, Bub had a bad cold and we think a sinus infection, Daddy had bronchitis, and Mommy had a sinus infection…it was a bad deal! Then the stomach bug hit us and Sister you got the worst case of diaper rash I had ever seen. You cried through every diaper change and mommy cried right along with you. We must have spent over $100 trying different cream concoctions, prescriptions, special bath soaks etc. trying to make you more comfortable. After a few days of letting you play without clothes on (oy) it finally passed and you were back to your happy, jolly self!

Owen and McKenna, you are getting to be so much fun! When I open the car door to get you out in the mornings and I start talking to you, you both smile and coo back at me…makes going to work tough some mornings. On the way home from JuJu’s in the evenings you both just sit in your carseats and talk and make noises and shake whatever toy I have given you to play with. I call out your names and I can see you turning your head trying to see where I am! One of my favorite times of day now is after your baths at night. Daddy bathes one of you and I bathe the other but then after you are both clean, dry, lotioned up, and in your PJ’s we lay you on our bed and you both roll and talk and touch each other and we tickle and kiss all over you. Then we give kisses and put you in your beds. It is the perfect ending to my day!

Mommy spent so much of the start of your life being sad and depressed. Not because of you but because of all the changes that were happening. But I feel like we are settling into that “new normal” everyone told us would happen. I now look forward to the weekends because you are getting into a routine and take better naps. I can’t WAIT to pick you up in the evenings! Thank you for making me a mom…for helping me realize the capacity I have to love…and for being the most precious, adorable, happy babies on the planet!

XOXOXOXO

Mommy