Summer is Finally Here!

I don't think I ever really realized how much I loved summer until I spent nearly all last summer hiding out in my basement trying to stay cool while I was 8/9 months pregnant. I love that I can walk in the mornings outside, take Isla to the park, spend the weekends at the pool, and when Leo and Delilah start getting wild and need exercise I can put them outside without any fear of them freezing to death. I can't believe at the end of summer I will have a one year old! Shortly after I had Isla my best friend told me the concept of pregnancy really being 18 months (9 months in and 9 months out). At the time it made sense, but I really think you are so wrapped up in the moment aka: survival mode it doesn't really click until you hit that 9 month mark. The first 9 months you will be pregnant and if you are like me complain about being tired, sick, etc. all the while people with kids just laugh at you while they think you have no clue what you are in for. I guess the pregnancy is actually the easy part. You will spend hours on end researching every sign and symptom and that is how most people can peg a first time mom. Those on the second or third round don't really care to understand why they have heartburn or morning sickness they just deal with it and move on. Then the next 9 months come the lack of sleep, the struggles of going back to work or not going back to work or the fact your entire life has changed more in the day you delivered your baby then it has in your entire life, the fact that you won't know everything or even half of everything, and what was predictable before is nothing but predictable now. Once you hit that first 9 months it is amazing how much they start giving back and how each day something new happens that will melt your heart over and over again. I love looking at the video monitor and seeing Isla waiving at me going Dada Dada (side note she now says Dada and Dee) I am still waiting for Mama. I love that she feeds herself so many finger foods and I know she is done when she starts feeding Leo and Delilah instead of herself. Now don't get me wrong those first 9 months are amazing to (I know those of you with kids under 9 months are giving me the side eye right now) I just think the 9 month mark is when they move from the infant baby stage into the little person stage and they start to develop into the people they will become. For Isla I can see so many qualities in her already I can't wait to watch her grow over the course of this summer and on into her life. She is becoming the most amazing little lady these days. I guess part of me was a little sad when I realized she is already 9 months old and becoming such her own person while the other half of me can't wait to see what is next to come. That same part of me is smiling while I have sold several of the little baby items on craigslist, while 8/9 month pregnant mom's brave the heat to come pick the ever so needed items I am selling such as the Bumbo, swing, enough clothes for triplets, etc. I really want to say all these things you don't really need, but instead I smile and tell them congratulations because I remember how exciting it was and thankful for all the people last summer that let me live in my little bubble of thinking I needed a onsie in every color. So here is to the summer of 2010, my first summer as a mom, my third summer in Colorado, and the first of many more summer with my family.