It's spring fever.
That is what the name of it is.
And when you've got it,
you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,
but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain~
We can finally see some grass and our raised beds and potato field. The snow is finally melting and being replaced by huge water puddles. So huge that we have a pair of ducks swimming in one at the end of the garden! The river is still frozen so I suppose they found a nice temporal replacement in our garden.
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The weather has been a little dull so I have been spending most of my time inside with baby Stian. I am happy I did not have this baby in the winter because I think I would go mad by staying indoors for weeks on end until the temperatures were suited for taking a baby outdoors. I know soon the temperatures will be a little warmer and we will spend some more time outside. I am taking it easy this time around and spending lots of time doing not much more than house chores. There will be time in the summer to spend outside with little Stian, but for now we are cosying up inside while the big(ger) boys are outside exploring. I had forgotten the huge amount of laundry that a newborn brings with him. Lots of burp cloths, cloth diapers and tiny clothes to wash nearly everyday. Not to mention two other boys who love to bathe in mud and who go through their clothes really fast.
He is already three weeks, time is flying by and I am soaking up all his newborn smell and little noises. I am starting to get the grip of this new family life with three tiny boys to attend to and noticing how patient Matias is when I tell him he has to wait a little for me to join in the game until I am finished nursing/diaper changing/burping. I do feel sometimes I do not reach to everything/everyone but my dear husband is doing a great job at spending lots of time with the boys so they don't feel left out. They both have become eager pappa-boys and miss him while he is at work. I remember this feeling of loosing the connection with Matias when Erik was born. I was a bit worried about this and wondered if my relationship with him would ever be as before. Then I realized it would not be as before, it would be different since now there was another sibling in the house, but that it wouldn't be a worse relationship for that. This time around I know that I will reconnect with my big boys once we get out of this newborn bubble. And this time around there is two siblings to play and take care of each other while I sit and nurse.
The knitting front is going slowly as well. I have four big projects going on, one for myself and one for each of the boys. I started already knitting their christmas sweaters, because this time I have three (!) to knit and Matias is already using the 6 year old size so it takes forever to knit. And I have chosen a pattern with 3.5 mm needles so this is going to take a while!
