Clear Epic

There are those moments, those few seconds in time where you wish you could pause life and take in all the small details, your surroundings, smells, sounds and sights because you want to cherish every single little thing about that sliver in time. I had one of those this morning.

Prayse is teething and it has been difficult on us both. I know where two new toofers are for sure and I think I also feel a third one starting to try and cut through. Poor babe. We went from 3 and 4 hours of consecutive sleep in her  crib to 10-45 minutes. Needless to say at some point in the night we both just need some sleep so when it gets to be too much, she ends up with us. Don’t tell, but I LOVE it. I have missed her warm little body, her soft hair that smells so good even at 3:00 a.m. when I wake up just to tell her I love her.

This morning I woke up and looked at the clock, seeing that it was  5:00 I knew I had 45 minutes before my alarm went off. I saw Prayse was over by her Dad and took the opportunity to turn over and sleep on my other side. Not more than five minutes later I heard Miss P waking up and so I stayed very still, in hopes that she wouldn’t wake up and want to play (45 minutes is very important!). No luck Chuck. She pushed herself up into a sitting position and crawled across the bed. I felt her perfect little chubby hand on my shoulder as she laid her head on my cheek. Knowing she is stronger willed than myself at 5:00 a.m. I turned over. Do you know what she did? She laid her head down on my pillow, gave me a kiss on my lips (her interpretation of a kiss anyway), put that same little chubby hand on my cheek, and fell asleep.

That was it. That was my moment. The first thing that went through my mind, is “Cherish these moments.” And so I wanted to capture it.

(As a side note, I’ll post some pictures from our Easter weekend. I don’t actually have any of Prayse in her Easter dress as the dress didn’t so much make it to church. Stinkin antibiotic… We made it through the morning with her cute dress on but had to go to our back up outfit right before we left. Still cute though!)