We had a very nice weekend. The weather was absolutely perfect...near 80, blue skies and no hurricane strength winds. Tomorrow will be a different story...chance of snow and rain and high in the 40's. It would actually be a good thing if we DID get some snow/rain...it is SO dry here right now that everyone is living in fear of fire danger. Coloradoans take fire danger very seriously--as we should. Yesterday we took the boys up to Pine Valley Ranch for a hike. En route we showed Liam firsthand what happens when someone is careless and sets the mountain on fire...literally acres and acres of pine tree skeletons (the result of the infamous Hayman Fire 7 years ago). Liam looked at the charred mountain and said "Well that bad lady burned down the trees but she couldn't burn down the mountain!"
The boys enjoyed the hike although Liam did get tired pretty early on. The highlight of the hike for them was definitely the river and eating lunch watching the water roll by. BOTH boys had a lot of fun tossing rocks into the water and running back and forth over the foot bridges. They were two very tired little fellows yesterday but as is the case sometimes, neither one took a nap (ok, Beanie snoozed in the car but that hardly counts). So today they were both in sleep deficit. We played outside in the morning and neither boy seemed to have the energy to stand up straight so I put them to bed and hoped they would nap. Beanie woke up WAILING 50 minutes into his nap and I knew that it meant he had probably pooped and he had. I went in to get him and he was crying so hard he could barely catch his breath (the boy HATES having poopy diapers and hey, I can't say I blame him!) I changed him and went to put him back in bed but his little heaving chest and tears made me instead sit down with him in the rocking chair. I thought, I'll just sit here with him for a few minutes until he calms down. But as we sat there rocking, with the sun coming in through the windows and the music box playing its lullabye I decided that the LAST thing I wanted to do was let go of him. He snuggled in and we sat there for an hour, hugging each other. At first I thought he fell right asleep but then I felt his little hands curl up and play with my hair, then pat my back, then start grabbing at the blanket and I knew he was snuggling because he wanted to, and not because he was asleep.
Even though it probably was setting a bad precedent, I realized that I won't always be able to sit there with him in my arms. These sweet days are fleeting and I already realize all too well that someday, I am going to look back and miss the time they were small enough to fit nuzzled in my arms. I made a point of mentally photographing the moment...the sounds, the smells, the feel of him laying there so I can file it away for the day when it will be a distant memory. So just for today we bent the rules...or at least until we bend them again another day.
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