familiography: three

We have had kids for 3 years, now. I know this isn't really about me and everyone just wants to hear about the kids, but it's a little hard for me to believe that I've been a parent for 3 years. THREE YEARS. There's sometime about 3 years that sounds like a really long time. We've been doing this parenting thing for a long time, now. They're also more like little people now,--we don't have babies anymore. We have kids. It's probably a part of me that's in denial about growing up. A little like Wendy in Peter Pan, which we read with the kids today.

We celebrated SylRafa's birthday today with a very low key and for us, wonderful, day. It was all about being together as a family today. We did little things to make it special for the kids, but really focused on spending quality time together, without being too distracted by making things fancy. I thought it was beautiful and I hope they did, too. And I'm not just making excuses for being slacker parents. They already had one party with the D's family, they'll have a simple party in school next week, and we'll have a party with extended family, godparents, and possibly a few friends at the end of the month.

I made pancakes with chocolate in the shape of their initials for their birthday breakfast. Sylvia got up early and had fun stirring the batter and be a little helper in the kitchen.