LADY IN WAITING

Have you told you yet the story about how I accidentally boiled two of Hudson’s books in our tea kettle?!?!  Don’t worry…you read that right!  It does, in fact, say boil!  I wish I were kidding, but sadly, I wouldn’t even be able to make this stuff up!!

Hudson got a collection of miniature board books from some of his grandparents last year for Christmas.  He loves them…always has!  But in recent months, his love for them has turned into an adoration of the sweetest kind!  He’ll sit on the steps with them as he flips through the pages…he’ll walk around the house with them in both hands…he’ll stack them up into towers…and – every now and then – he’ll hide them!  Stash them away in a secret little place for safe keeping!  Then there is our tea kettle, which Hudson also loves!  He roams around the house with it and pretends to water the plants…it’s adorable!

The problem arose though because I’ve never developed a habit of looking inside the tea kettle before I fill it and turn it on.  I’ve never developed this habit because it never occurred to me that there would come a time in my life when I would need to check the kettle before using it!  But sure enough, low and behold, the day did come!  And it didn’t taste very good!!!  Not only did I boil his books once {and then shrug off the funny tasting water to being pregnant}…but twice!  It wasn’t until the following morning when I was using the kettle again that I noticed a pinkish-orange tinge to the water and felt compelled to look inside.  There they were…the sad faces of Elmo and Grover staring back at me in their “boiled to a pulp” condition!  I seriously laughed out loud in my kitchen when I noticed what had happened because I should know better; Hudson is prone to this kind of mischievous behaviour and it certainly wouldn’t be the first time that he’s pulled some serious Jedi mind tricks on me!!

What made me laugh most of all though, was the sudden realization of how different the anticipation of our daughter’s arrival has become versus the weeks leading up to Hudson’s big day…

In some ways, it feels like a hundred years ago that I was this pregnant with Hudson and at the same time, it’s also hard to remember a time without him.  The Vancouver Olympics were just finishing up and spring was just around the corner.  It was an usually warm March last year and since I wasn’t sleeping very well by then, I would often be up and out the door by 6am…en route to my local Starbucks for my morning coffee and a couple of hours of reading in a big lounge chair.  The very thought of that now seems so indulgent!  In fact, just this morning, on our walk back from Starbucks, I found a pair of Hudson’s socks on the side of the road that he had pitched from his stroller about four days ago!  How my son manages to come home with his shoes and not his socks is beyond me…but it is a great example of just how different life has become over the past twenty-one months!!!

While Hudson’s arrival brought the transition from frolicking in Europe to life as new parents…our daughter’s arrival has us wondering what kind of trouble her and her brother will manage to brew up together…especially when we’re not looking!    As we were raising Hudson, I remember wondering if those hard times would ever end…or if those amazing times could possibly get any better?  The answer to both was yes!  The hard times did eventually pass {thank you teething fairy!} and for every stage of their development that you love…there just seems to be an even better one mere months away!  Our questions were so different…our worries so simple.  Now, as we await our daughter, we wonder if our cat will have any fur left by the time they both reach the age of four?!  Will our hardwood floors ever live to tell the tale of their toddler days?!?  Will I ever use a kettle again without first checking to make sure that infant nursery rhymes haven’t been tucked away inside?!?!

Oh, how times have changed.  Oh, how our times have changed!

And I can’t help but love every minute of it!  Pinkish-orange tea and all!

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  1. Kelly says:

    Yum! … Nothing like a hot cup of Sesame Street Tea to make your day!! Better check the oven too!!!

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