Popsicles Abound

We eat quite a few popsicles around our joint - there are days were popsicle time happens twice.  I know, I know.  High fructose corn syrup abounds!  But it's so hot that most of it drips down on shirts and hands before it ever makes it to mouths.  Plus, with this cool popsicle mold thingy that SueSue got for the kids a couple of summers back, we can freeze up actual fruit juices which are still fun, but not quite so....  high fructose corn syruppy.


Anyway, last week, we had the pleasure of having baby Audrey at the house for a couple of days while Robert was feverishly working on a website launch.  She didn't seem to mind one little bit that we have plethora o' popsicles around here.  I mean, how cute is that little face?  This is one of her rare moments where she looks like both her dad and her mom.  Usually she picks a parent for the day.


To keep the whole Audrey-themed post going, here is one of the wee lass for the grandparents.  Since she has graduated to one nap a day, I'm able to put all the kids down for nap time at the same time.  Audrey felt pretty comfortable on the couch in the master bedroom.  (It's a low futon type couch - and I surrounded it with pillows to keep her safe.  No worries).
But when I saw her lying there, she just looked so big.  She's growing so fast, and it reminded me of how fleeting the time of childhood really is.  And not just "being little".  But the innocence and open-eyed wonderment that goes along with being a child.  Of course, when you're in the trenches and dealing with the inability to reason or the incessant whining of a two year old or the constant reminders to pick up shoes or etc., the childhood period can feel interminable.  But it takes one moment like this to put it in perspective, if only for a little while.


If I could only get to this place in my head when my own popsicle pirates are pushing all my parental buttons, I'd be perfectly set!    Pow!   (The sentence felt like it needed one more "p").