Now Who's Laughing ...

We have some good friends, Tom and Beth Carter, who came over for dinner tonight with their 10 month old daughter, Sydney. For those who do not know the history, when we first met Tom and Beth, children were no where on their radar nor was being around them comfortable for them. So throw our three in the mix of our life and add Tom and Beth and we were a great picture of birth control for them! Well, now that they have entered the world of parenthood, tonight, we had the privilege of spending some time with them;
1. "Here, honey, do you want to feed her?" "I'm not finished eating." "But you are farther along than me. Can you feed her?"
2. "Honey, will you watch her while I help clean up?" "Helloooooo? Tom, she is in here with me! Are you watching her?"
3. "What is that? Oh, it's a hershey kiss wrapper." "What is that? Oh, it's a leaf. Gosh, she finds the darndest things!"
4. "We are going to need to go ... it's almost bedtime."
5. "Do we have everything? You get the stroller...diaper bag ... juice cup ..."
We walked outside with them at 8pm!!! ... get her in the car ... get her buckled and give her a toy ... Tom folding the stroller up and getting it in the trunk ... Scott and I watched relishing in every moment and laughing with them! It was so cute and seemed so far removed for us and yet so sad that those moments are already gone. Well ..... sort of ... needless to say in their "inexperience" as parents (by the way, the minute you think you have experience, your kids will change into something else that you have no experience in-us as we navigate a daily changing female hormonal 10 year old), they are wonderful and great with her!! I'm so proud of their adjustment to this new stage of life!!!!