A glimpse of future family life

It's 330 on Sunday and I am changing out the laundry on the porch and Lupe and Liam are playing together in the Playhouse. We are fixing up our porch and yard to make them more fun and enjoyable spaces. Liam can crawl and also walk now, wobbly but walking. The driveway is blocked off with a gate so that the kids can go back and forth between our yard and their grandparents yard next door. And I feel like it is the beginning of a phase of parenting and childhood that I've been looking forward to. Need doing chores and the kids playing on their out. It seems so boring and simple yet it feels like a definite turning point in the family life.
Last night we had friends over for a barbecue in the backyard and the kids played (except Liam who stayed in my lap the whole time). Simple simple pleasures that make life good.