Genuinely excited

Posted by Kat in Boston, London

I was thinking about my children the other day, well, I think about them all the time. Let’s start over. One of the thoughts that ran through my mind was that I am genuinely excited to get to know my boys. As the bond forms and as the time passes with your children, you simply get to know them. I guess it is fairly similar to how you get to know your spouse or your best friend. You can love someone quite easily, but continuing to love them through the course of years and years is truly profound and a testament to how much you can love someone. Rachel’s personality has emerged over the last 7 years and Julie’s personality was pretty evident the day she was born (Holy crap! Luckily my sweet Julie has calmed down quite a bit!). London was such a sweetie pie for the first 2 years and he is starting to change from a ball of handsome goo into a child with personality, with wants and needs and mood swings. Sometimes I wish he were a ball of goo again with chubby thighs and giggles but this is the part of life that is bittersweet. You want them to grow up and get bigger but part of you, as a parent, becomes sad that they can’t stay small for forever.

I look forward to getting to know my boys. Julie and Rachel being nearly 4 years apart made it quite easy to tell them apart, personality wise. London and Boston were born so close to each other (11.5 months) that they are about the same size, they sleep at the same time, eat the same foods and can pretty much wear the same clothes. Hell, they weigh the same. In looking at their 15 month pictures it dawned on me that the boys get categorized together almost as if they are the same person. Clearly they are not the same little boy, but it is going to take more time for each boy to become their own person. It is that stage of their lives that I am looking forward to. When Boston becomes Boston and London becomes London.

I love them so much I was compelled to do some public rambling.