Mommy & Me Date

so i took claudia to see WALL-E last night. it was really cute, very much an eco-green film, but i liked it a lot, and so did she.

it was very fun just getting to go out with just claudia. sometimes it's really hard to get one on one with her when all the kids are around. she's by far the lowest maintenance of all the kids, she's eager to please and in general just doesn't like to break the rules.

on the other hand, joe is really a lot of work. he constantly is testing the boundaries and i'm convinced he likes to be naughty just for the sake of being naughty. i'm constantly on him trying to at least keep him in the realm of tolerable insanity. thia is a baby and even though she's a great and very happy baby, she's just that, still a baby and needs so much attention and extra measures of care and such.

of course i would never have wished it to be any other way. i know that there was a plan behind all of this and it's going to work out for the best. there is just a small part of me that wishes we'd had a little time with claudia alone. she's the oldest and unlike most first-borns, she never got that alone time (not even with her bio-mom). although when they came to live with us it was just her and joe at first, he was even more of a challenge in the beginning.

anyway, it was just fun being out with her, getting to hold her hand, kiss her whenever she wanted, (she likes to ask every 5 minutes), talk to her-just her- when ever she had something to say, and in general just be really together, not distracted, not preoccupied and not worrying about the other kids.

i just got to watch her be silly, dance, sing and giggle in her seat. we did watch the movie, but i also watched her. and for one night, it was just her.