Biscuits, Lollipops and the Attitude of a Three Year Old

So we gave Biscuit a dum-dum (lollipop, sucker, whatever) the other night.  She of course takes days to finish one of these things which means she still has it when we head out to dinner.  On the way she falls asleep with her fingers firmly clutched around the sucker.  When we reach our destination, Chris throws away the sucker and shakes her shoulder to wake her up. 

An hour later we are putting on coats and Biscuit pulls a Macaulay Culkin:

"Oh No!  Where is my lollipop!"

Chris explains, "Biscuit, you fell asleep with it in the car.  I had to throw it away.  Remember you were so sleepy that I had to shake you awake?"

To which she replies in her best "you are an idiot" voice , "Daddy, I wasn't sleeping.  I was just looking out the window."

There are times when holding in the laughter just isn't possible....

They Grow Up So Fast...

It's sad when life takes up so much of your time that you realize that your children's lives are flying by. Next thing you know they are 18 and driving off to college. Okay, okay. Actually they are 3.5 and 2 years old and they are not driving off to college yet but I swear that is just around the corner. Or so it seems.

Last time we posted in this blog our children were 5 months and 2 years old. Horrible, right? I don't know why we thought we would have time to blog when we didn't even have time to make dinner. Or even time to spend with our kids. We both had demanding, time consuming jobs. But finally we decided enough was enough. We budgeted and worried. And then budgeted and worried some more. And finally came up with a plan that would allow me to quit my job and stay home with the kids.

My last day of work was December 30, 2010. Almost a year ago. And we still haven't updated this blog. But I am not going to apologize. Why? Because this has been one of the best years of my life. For the first time in 3 1/2 years, I feel like I know my children (particularly Yaya - but more on that in a later post). Now, before anyone gets any ideas , I am not by any stretch of the imagination saying parents that work don't know their children. On the contrary. I know so many parents that work and still have amazing relationships with their kids. As I said, we both had time consuming jobs. To put it in persepective, I saw my kids a total of 3 hours a day. And I have to admit my own weakness here. I'm just not the kind of person that can juggle a job and the amazing and daunting task of raising children. And because I couldnt' do both, I had to choose. Of course I chose my kids.

So here we are. Biscuit is 3 1/2 and Yaya recently turned 2 years old. They are growing up so fast and I realize that although I get to watch them grow up, it's so easy to forget the little things they do and the little leaps they make. So here I am again. Hoping to record some of those moments so I don't forget all those amazing moments in their lives.