The inconveniences of Motherhood

lately, I've been thinking a lot about certain aspects of motherhood. I'll admit that when I first saw Benny, I didn't exactly bond with him on the spot. For the first couple weeks, I felt like he was a stranger in our home. I didn't know this little spirit at all. I know some mothers feel a connection at the very beginning but that wasn't me. I had to get used to Benny and then a connection grew gradually over the months and so did my love for him.
As I think about this gradual process of love, I also think about the world's general view of children and motherhood. Having children is viewed as an inconvenience. However, I'm finding that a lot of the times, I cherish the inconvenient moments with Benny. If I am doing something on the counter, Benny will crawl up to my feet and imploringly cry to be let up to see what I am doing. Although a task is made a lot harder when reduced to one hand, I love the look on his face as he looks at what I am doing with happy interest being totally oblivious to the fact that it has cost me the use of one arm just so I can hold him. Bedtimes I especially love. Benny doesn't easily fall asleep on his own and usually the advise for that is to sleep train him, which involves just letting him cry till he falls asleep. That method I hear works wonders for the mothers sleep schedule but I love holding him and gradually rocking him to sleep. We do however put him in the crib to kinda tire him out so he goes to bed at a descent time but it always ends with him in my arms. I love the feel of his little body cuddled up to me and falling asleep. There are so many other moments that I love with Benny that make life a little "inconvenient" but I love them all.

Shhhh, he's almost asleep, nobody make a sound!















Just kidding!!!















sleepy in the fireplace














I love this picture, it captures his excitement














Cody and Jillian surprised us during the weekend and showed up in Kennewick without even telling us! We loved it. They dropped by our apartment while we were having Pam and Adam over for dinner and we had a great time all hanging out. It was a record for the number of people in our small home with babies up the wazoo!

School days come back

A lot has happened! First of all, Nathan has started up school again and so have I!! I discovered a couple of months ago that I only had 4 classes left to qualify for an AA. I had no idea i was so close, so I decided to finish it off. I'm now enrolled at CBC in a basic biology class. The plan is to enroll in one class per quarter so I can still take care of Benny. I have my class after Nathan is done with all his so I can take Benny to campus and trade him off to Nathan with his lunch and then while I'm in class Benny and Nathan are hanging out and eating lunch. It's a really fun arrangement. I love taking Benny to campus with me and I love seeing him and my hubby right after class. I'm really enjoying this little season of our lives. We also took a trip to Rexburg and got to see little Joseph!!! He is amazingly cute and has the radest hair ever, its super thick and is golden brown like a lions mane. We also took a trip to Provo on conference weekend to attend Nathan's mission reunion. We traveled all day and thought we would only be 40 minutes late but then we ran into traffic. We hadn't anticipated traffic from conference. We made it just on time for the ending. Luckily a lot of people had stayed after and Nathan got to chat with a couple of his comps for about 2 hours, so it was worth it. Benny is developing quite a bit, he is starting to stand on his own, is sprouting his first tooth, and is making 2 syllable sounds! He is well on his way. Anyways, till next time.














All the Robles men at the gardens at BYU-I














Benny's forth haircut















Benny and little Joseph















Benny in the Bath/sink














A table I bought at goodwill and painted














Bennys attempt at eating














The fam up in a tree on the way back from the Puwallup fair














Sporting our cool head attire that we got at the Puwallup fair. I got a lot of comments, people asked me if it was my real hair. Benny's hat was actually made by Aunt Emilee. Check them out on etsy.com.