Things I Want to Remember About Now

-the way the boys pack superhero costumes "just in case" whenever we leave the house, the way Manny fixates on my belly and rubs it any chance he gets, the way Clara wears a crown on her head upside-down and spins, the way she chooses a book and backs into your lap assuming that you are up for reading it to her, how Manny makes inventions like spider and star ornaments, pictorial pizza menus, how both boys ask us to "tell a story about our life that has 3 bad parts," they say "Save" when Clara or we do something to interfrere with their game, when we get strapped into the car they say "C" for not strapped in and then "L" for when they are ready for us to drive, how Clara paints on our faces with her fingers, how she and Maxine kiss, how Clara likes to carry the laundry soap one in each hand like she's entering the baggage claim. . . . I think I could go on all night. I just don't want the time to pass and for me to forget these little things, these things that make our lives so rich, these vivid personalities and quirky ways that even the best writers could not invent.