babies...

today was a lovely day. i spent it in nearly its entirety with my cousin nikki and her two week old twin girls, emma and alaina. i’ve now witnessed my first baby check-up at the dr’s… what good that does me i’m not quite sure, but i’ve experienced it nonetheless. after that we pretty much did nothing other than sit around watching movies with usually one quiet or sleeping child and one squirming or malcontented one. every time i turned around they were hungry; with two that seems to be an inescapable thing. they are quite adorable though. alaina is without a doubt the quieter and calmer one that completely melts my heart (emma does too, but alaina has more ‘perfect baby’ moments). she makes the cutest sounds when she’s sleeping. emma on the other hand is the wide eyed, squirming baby. she’s a hard one to figure and i spent a sizable amount of time with her screaming at me for no apparent reason. she’s a pro at interrupting movie watching because she’ll be calm and wonderful one moment and then she’ll erupt in anger. of course just when i finally got her calmed down tonight her 'nana' (my aunt) comes and she turns into a perfect angel. emma usually hates her pacifier, she gets mad that it tricks her, and so she had no intrest in it with me when she was so upset. but nana shows up when she's calm and has to prove that emma likes it when she gives it to her, which in turn makes me look like i'm incapable, but whatever. nikki knows i’m good and that’s all that matters. i did thoroughly enjoy my time though. i love that nikki and i are close and can do things like this.

starting up again friday morning i will be taking care of gramma through the evening of the 15^th. again, not what i was expecting to be spending my break doing, but this cancer isn’t going to allow her to be here with us all that much longer, so i need to savor this time because i’m lucky to have it. and besides... i've got down time to finally do some pleasure reading and i'm learning how to crochet, i have a new stitch to learn next week.

well that's all that's happening in my world... bubye