It's Christmas Time

It's actually the 27th today, but we have Christmas scene 6&7 today, so I guess it still counts a Christmas. We had a wonderful last couple of days. We started on Christmas eve morning, and Cade was so well behaved, so cooperative, I could not have asked for him to behave any better these last few days. And considering there was little napping happening, things went well. Colin did great too. Of course, all you have to do is snuggle him up tight and he's a happy guy. I've been trying so hard this season to soak up my babies. My phrase that keeps running through my head these days is "They will never be this small again." I just try to breathe it all in, every smile, every funny comment, every still moment, I can't get enough of either one of them. Colin likes to be held rather than sit in his swing, and I find myself just holding him, just because. There will be a day, all too soon, where he won't want to sit on mommy's lap, so I just hold him. Yesterday I was thinking how much I am enjoying Cade being 2. He says the funniest stuff and does the silliest things. And then I smiled as I remembered that Colin will be that age some day too. And we'll get to do it all over again. And that's a good thing! So this Christmas, for me at least, it not about the presents, or the carefully plotted travel plans, or the snow, or the tree. (Is it ever about the tree? I don't think that fits there.) It's about me enjoying my babies while they are babies, because they will never be this small again.