Sunday, August 3, 2008

Parenting...

Yesterday, the girls were busy at the table and Jana and I were deep in a discussion over something really important, but I can't remember what exactly it was. Usually, it's something super cool like, "if I were an 90's rap star, who would I be?"

It's kind of a loaded question, but we usually settle on me being Vanilla Ice (yep yep) and Jana being Biggie Smalls (because of his talent as a lyricist, not his appearance or message!). Anyway, we look over and see this:Why wouldn't a marker end up in a water bottle? So of course, we ask who did it:

She was pretty proud. It dawned on me that this is something a young couple without kids would never see. I thought about all the crazy things we do as parents that would be quite inappropriate if it weren't for the kids involved:

Smelling a child's rear end to see if they need a new diaper comes to mind...

But for the most part it's wonderful. (Even the disgusting stuff, right!?) So I took my camera on our walk to try to capture the great parts of parenthood:


Some day, our children will grow up, but still give us the same looks.

"For mommy."



I can't wait for #3 to arrive!

(Yes, there are more pictures of Majil because Jana was up ahead with Paisley...)

5 comments:

Blog Shmog said...

Cute pictures! And we have many interesting things done with markers in our house too. the other day my 20 month old had one up her nose. Good times. :)

missy said...

such a cute post. great pictures! we're going through ALW. What about you? What's your email?

C said...

that was fun!!! I look forward to having kids in my house, :)

Kristin said...

Way too funny! I love how kids give us the comic relief we so often need...as long as we're kid enough to notice it. Great pics!

Joy Armstrong said...

These are fabulous photos! Way to catch the moments. That is so hard to do! Those are the photos I most love looking back at though. Let me know when and I'll be ready with my notary stamp! :)