That’s a happy aaaaaah, not an AAAAHHH!

I’ve given myself an unexpected break from writing…partly because being away from home means I’m without my computer and downtime to sit down and write because there are places to go and people to see. But also because it’s been nice to have a bit of a mental break and just enjoy each moment with Gray and Jackson and not be enjoying them while simultaneously writing them down.

Don’t get me wrong…it’s not like I’m always walking around the house with my computer typing notes when we’re at home. But somehow it feels different when we’re away, and it’s nice to just be here and be in the moment.

One amazing thing that happens whenever we’re out of our norm and on a trip…it feels like G changes and grows at five times the normal rate. He’s talking more, dancing harder, laughing longer, hitting more balls with his ping pong paddle and feeling more and more like a boy, and less like our baby.

Why does that happen? Why does traveling seem to speed things up?

Just now, as I was trying to get G down for a nap (which the last few days has been an utter failure as he goes hours past his normal naptime) and sitting in a chair reading, he stood up in his crib, walked over to my side, and said, ‘Mama whatcha doin’?’

Just like that. Like he’d been speaking in complete sentences for years.

So while there’s so many friends we haven’t gotten to see yet, and while it hasn’t been a total vacation as work has kept working, it’s also been incredible to just be away together.

It makes me sadly realize how much I miss out on in his life the four days he’s at school every week, and it make me truly appreciate this time together. Just us.