Oden Adventures

I'm not yet ready to say that we've hit a new stride, but I feel like in May we met up frequently with a new stride that brought great promise for the days ahead.  That is to say, it feels like parenting two kids is a becoming a bit easier.  Maybe it's the more frequent 10 or 20 minutes when they entertain themselves and/or each other, and I can catch my breath or at least do some dishes.  Maybe it's the office corner we got set up for me in the playroom so that I can get back to a research project I've been working on-slash-putting off for over four years.  Maybe it's having been here for nine months now, we're finding some rhythm to our weeks, or that I've started caring a lot less about the house being a mess.  Or that we live in this incredible kid-friendly place and have found so many go-to locales for when we need to get out of the house.  Whatever it is, it feels good and hopeful and is giving me space to sort out my head a bit.  

There was a lot of beauty in our May.  A little weirdness, too, but that's to be expected.  Vianne decided all of a sudden that she only wanted to wear one dress anymore out of her entire wardrobe of clothes.  Apparently now, every single other item of clothing she owns is itchy. She also became obsessed with the show Transformers: Rescue Bots.  She would watch it all day, every day if we let her.  Oliver continued on in his all-too-quick-pace towards two, with the strong will to prove it.