14/11/2019
This girl... such an interesting mix of sweet, sensitive, kind, sass, attitude.... and LOUD. Im forever saying “inside voice” to her... to them all... the house can feel very noisy and overwhelming at times. Between Archer’s Loud crying after being bashed on the head with a toy by his brother after fighting over said toy, Arlo’s dinosaur roaring as he runs towards his sister to pull her hair, and Rhea’s high pitched yelling after he succeeds... I sometimes need to step outside to escape the chaos for a minute.... before of course going back in to break up the fighting 🤦♀️
But I said to andrew one particularly loud evening last week, “we’ll miss this noise when they’ve grown up and are out of the house and it’s just you and me... we’ll be wishing they were kids again making as much noise as they possibly can ...”... and then I started getting emotional. (Which is magnified by the fact I’m already on an emotional hormonal journey right now)😏
So while sometimes it gets too loud and too much and I need a time out, and I’d do anything for more sleep (4 kid wakes up, nappy changes and bed hopping last night plus 5.30 am wake up🙄 try not to be too jealous of me folks..), I know I’ll look back on these years as the happiest of my life and will miss them when they’re over 😢
So, just to teach this girl to yell a little quieter.... or buy earplugs 😂
the sloka unisex beanie for older kids