There Goes My Babies...

Baby #1 is on his first overnight away from home (without us) tonight. He went to spend the night at Gramoo's. Just him and Gramoo and Lauren. Just for fun. Isn't that so cute?

I dropped him off at about 4:30 this afternoon. He's been very excited about it and it's getting close to 8:30 and I haven't heard anything so I guess that's great, right? Although I'm so so curious and of course I'm missing him. He'll be back in the morning for swimming lessons.

Baby #2 is on his second night of not wanting to rock before bed. Last night I sat to snuggle and rock for a bit and he said, "I want bed!" and I said, "Shhhh...snuggle snuggle" as I tried to do just that. And he kept saying, "Bed! I want bed!" and I kept trying to not let him. Finally I was like, "Are you sure you want your bed?" and he said his very cute, "Yas." And I said, "Fine. Gimme a kiss" and he did and I said, "Night night, Baby" as I laid him down and he said, "Nigh nigh". I was sure he'd change his mind and eventually cry after talking to himself for awhile but nope. He was silent. Didn't need me at all.

Pulled it again tonight too.

I miss my babies being babies!!!

But who they're growing up to be is pretty darn cool too.

Here's E with his overnight bag walking up to Gramoo's:


And D who is home with us tonight but feeling independent as far as putting himself to bed goes:


I'm really proud of both of them and their independence tonight...we're trying to instill that in them, for sure, so why is it making me a little sad too?

Bittersweet I guess.