First Post: What's on my mind tonight

I need to do a better job of recording this time in my life because it's pretty much amazing. Beautiful, really. 

Currently Bridger is 5 days away from becoming an official 3 year old, and Juniper is in the middle of her fifth month of life. Juniper is smiley - oh, so smiley - and a little rolly-polley of a child. She's so close to crawling - I give it 2-3 weeks. I've caught her getting up on her hands and knees and rocking back and forth before returning to her ever-comfortable belly. Also, she's a talker. A couple of weeks ago, she was hitting the smiley-gaspy-screechy-I-am-learning-to-use-my-voice

Happy Girl

-to-make-noise stage, and it's since mellowed out into "buh-buh's" and "guuuuh"s, with little squeals of delight her

Definitely siblings, right?!

e or there, mostly directed at her brother. 

Speaking of her brother, he's turning into quite the little friend for her. It - is - INSANELY heart melting to watch them. This afternoon I sat and watched as Bridger went over to where Juniper was playing on the floor, and laid down next to her, both of them belly down, with his arm over her back, looking into her face, and just kinda smiling. She would smile and reach her little, flailey arm out to touch his face, and he would laugh, and rub his head up against hers. It lasted several minutes, and just about killed me.  Juni's just getting big enough to really want Bridger around, and he's just starting to notice her attention - and like it. It's the best. Ever. 

Bridger is turning into such a little champ too. He's always been my little buddy, even when he was little little, accompanying me on all sorts of adventures and making it way more fun that it would have been alone.  But now that he's able to carry a conversation and come up with his own ideas and express them, it's like we're at a completely different level. His vocabulary and conversational skills are developing through the roof, but the innocence is still there, making it incredibly fun at times. Like the other night: I woke up, from a dead sleep, to a little voice next to my bed saying "Mommy...I'm just awake right now". It was the first time, ever, that he's successfully let himself out of his bedroom at night, and I love that that was what he had to say about it. 

Dressed as a cowboy at a
"Hoe-Down" at the church.

Today we were looking to burn some time in the morning (with his new door opening skills, he's been waking up earlier too) and so I took him and Juniper on a lonnnnng walk. I let Bridger make the calls on which way to turn, when. While we walked we talked about the trees, the cars, the dirty sidewalk from that morning's thunderstorm...and on and on. 

Needless to say, he's quite the little companion. 

They're both growing so fast, and I feel like I have so much to remember - things to remember that are so good that right now, it feels like I could never forget them. But I know I will. Things like how a friend lent us a little wooden balance bike a couple of weeks ago, and in the 4-5 times that Bridger has been out on it now, he's turned into an expert. Or how he's recently developed pretend voices, like "the tough guy" or "the baby" or...(it goes on).  Or the way that Juniper reaches up and touches my face, or has this little breathy mumble that she does every time she's concentrating on something. As much as I don't want to, I know, I will forget these things! So in an attempt to give these memories a little more life, I am starting this blog. I want to remember, and I want to share it with those I love (if I can only figure out how to run the dang thing, right?!). 

Looking over this, I realize that I've waxed eloquently on just one slice of the pie - my kids - but there are so many other beautiful aspects to my life: my fantastic husband, my religion, my dear friends, my talents and goals, my family, etc., etc., etc. And hopefully I'll write about it all. But tonight, this is what is on my mind, and how great is that??? Not "where's that bag of chocolate chips, it's been a long day" or "BED. BEDDDDD." or even "let's watch a show" (all common end-of-the-day thoughts for me). But, what a wonderful thing for me to think about as my day draws to it's close!