goodbye twinkle

snuggling after his nap, hugh was groggily eating a snack of a banana and a cup of milk....

me: oh, you're waking up, i see that twinkle in your eye.

hugh: get it out.

hugh at 30 months; henry at 7 months

hugh

• loves to sing and listen to music. we spent all of december listening to bing crosby and the andrews sisters belt out jingle bells. it's a great song, but does not get better after 3 hours of continuous play while driving to mimi's house.
• generally says one of two things while giving me a big hug: "hugh love mama" or "mama soft".
• is the funniest little person i know. i'm teaching him knock knock jokes, but he always just wants to get to the punch line. "knock, knock" "orange you glad see me!!".
• is the size of a four-year old.

henry

• can sit and roll over. and man, can that kid roll. he'll get himself into the next room before you know it.
• loves to hear himself talk
• still thinks he's the funniest, cutest baby in the mirror
• green beans do not make him cry, unlike his older brother
• is working on crawling. if he knew that such a thing as "walking" existed, he'd be working on that instead.
• is the size of a 15 month old

moments that i want to remember

for the past 2.5 years there have been small little moments with my boys wherein i think "i'm going to remember this always". i don't. i need to remember that i will forget the exact moment and to write it down.

recently, there have been a couple such moments and i am remembering them here:

• during an episode of croup, i'm standing outside on a freezing night at 2:30am, holding hugh wrapped in a blanket. we're looking at the stars and singing twinkle, twinkle, little star.
• every night as i hold henry while he drifts off to sleep. i want to remember what it feels like to hold my last baby in my arms.