12.25.13 - Wednesday

Merry Christmas little one. It's your first celebration of Christ's birth. It's been a bit of an odd Christmas with lots of illness, but it's Christmas nonetheless. And my current Christmas prayer--that we all get better quickly to enjoy the end of the year with no complications.

Favorite Christmas present of the year--dog shaped walker with music and lights. Makes you very proud.

That and your monkey that sings to you. He's good for a cuddle.

Merry Christmas my little lad.

12.02.13 - Monday

Darling boy, the last two months have been crazy. You have experienced your first (but most likely not last) move. It wasn't exactly a pre-planned move, but you've done well with it. In total, it's been a very busy few months, not just because of the move for the whole family, but for you personally as well.

To sum up:

1. You had Rosiola--a fact that we didn't figure out until after you got over it.
2. You also had a bout of croup. Hopefully the last, but if you follow in your sister's footsteps, not so much. 
3. You've pushed in three more teeth, one more on the way. I broke down and bought you some Amber-beads. Wasn't sure if they would work or not, but I think they have helped. You were getting regular low fevers, drooling, diarrhea, etc. Constantly. This has stopped greatly since the beads. Coincidence, maybe. We'll see what happens when the next bout of teeth come in. Or tooth number 8.
4. October 16, you pulled to standing on the furniture. 
5. November 12 you started cruising along the furniture.
6. November 21, you said your first word. Which, kindly enough, was "Mama". This included a portion of the day when I went out and you proceeded to crawl all over the cottage calling out, "Mama, Mama!" It was rather pathetic and totally manipulative. Fortunately, I wasn't home to hear it.
7. Yesterday, you started crawling with straight legs, trying to figure out how to walk.

Busy month, little one. What surprises are you going to pull out this month? 

09.24.13 - Tuesday

So you have a new fun toy. You discovered my hair in a braid yesterday, and each time we sat down to nurse you spent the entire time holding my braid--twirling it, stroking it, petting it. Apparently you've found your lovey.

09.20.13 - Friday

Tongue clicking. Such joy. And such intense conversations that one can have with the simple click of the tongue.

Perhaps we need to move to Africa.

09.17.13 - Tuesday

So we went swimming today. You love the water. I put you in your little floaty-tube at first and you just floated around looking all serious at everything. But then I took you out so you could really reach the water and the splashing began. And did not stop. For about 30 minutes.

09.07.13 - Saturday

You crawled today! For real crawling, not this scooting along the floor, picking up all the lint, army-crawling business.

And then you quit.

So I'm praying you're not planning on staying up all night to practice crawling in your crib. Because I'm not down with that.

09.05.13- Thursday

OK, seriously, dude. You have got to quit with the waking up at 5am. Although, admittedly, you are proving to be a good incentive for me to get up and actually work out and do my devotions etc before I have to get the big girls up for school. But really, I would prefer that to be my quiet time--not my quiet time in which you are patting my face as I do sit-ups and eating my toes while I stretch.

Just saying. I love you. But you need to sleep in a little later.