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THIS Moment in Time (#2)
Screech Owl! Holy hell!!!!
Loving
Just a quick thing I want to record. B went on a day trip today for work – just a 2 hour drive from home. He left around 5:30 this morning and was home (met us at Pan.era) at 6:00. Really, this was a normal work day for him, from my perspective. Matthew wakes up after 7:00 now (THANK GOD!) so many mornings, even if B is staying in town (which is the norm), he doesn’t see Matthew in the morning before going to work. But B feels like he’s been gone FOREVER… and he’s crawling around on the floor with Matthew as if he hasn’t seen him in days. There is nothing but joy in our living room right now… and it’s bath time but I don’t want to break up the party 😉
It’s precious.
I feel like the luckiest mom and wife in the world right now! He is such a loving man 🙂
To My Sweet Boy
Dear Matthew,
The party is over.
The house is picked up.
Our guests are gone.
And you, my boy, are no different today than you were yesterday. Thank goodness!
You still snuggle with me.
You still love to nurse.
You would still rather sit in the shower with me than do practically anything else.
You still blow kisses and wave hi and bye-bye.
And you’re still my baby. You’re not a toddler… yet!
What You Love:
- Your Daddy
- Your Mommy
- Your plethora of friends – you are the happiest, most social baby I have ever met (and I’m not just saying that because you’re MY baby!)!
- Your kitties, Lily, Jackson, and Janie (you especially love Janie!)
- Your pillow
- Your Boo monkey
- BOOKS! Oh my, you love, love, love books!
- Kissing everyone and many things (like favorite pictures in your books) with a big, wide, open mouth!
- Blowing kisses
- Engaging everyone in conversation wherever we go
- Clapping! You clap for yourself, for Mommy and Daddy, for your friends at the gym… for EVERYONE!
- The pool – or any other place where you can be wet (like the shower, a slip-n-slide, a sprinkler, the tub…)
- Everything you eat – you are the best eater ever! We get comments from people everywhere we go about what a great eater you are!
- Guacamole – I have to call this one out because it is your favorite!
- Yo!Baby yogurt. You pitched the biggest fit at the grocery store yesterday when I put it in the cart and didn’t feed it to you on the spot. HA!
- Getting into the tupper.ware drawers
- Playing with and eating toilet paper
- Mango
- Your activity tables
- Dancing
- Hip hop and rap (much to Daddy’s chagrin!)
- Your two favorite friends, Rachel and Claire
- Naps – not going down for them, but you love the rest they bring you (you’re a GREAT napper!)
- The computer and mobile phones – you can’t keep your hands off of them (and Daddy loves letting you play with them, which is not normal but is super, SUPER nice of him!!!!)
What You Don’t Love (I won’t say ‘hate’):
- Diaper changes – even if you’re filthy and stinky
- Cake – you spit it out immediately (but not the frosting)
- Being dirty (yay!)
- Long car rides
- Being in the stroller for too long
- Going down for a nap
- Being away from either Mommy or Daddy – but you get over it rather quickly because you’re so darned social!
- Your jumperoo – you do not like being contained!
As you can see, sweet boy, you are so happy and you like most everything. I was hard-pressed to find things to put on the “Don’t like” list.
You have brought so much joy and love to Daddy’s and my life – you have completed us 100%! We had spent 5 years together before you were born and though they were wonderful years (we had lots of fun and have so much to tell you!), our best year has been the one we’ve shared with you. You are our best friend!
As you know, we worked very hard to get you. It was a long road with years of tears and frustration (especially for Mommy). The minute we found out we were having YOU, all of that sadness went away and we’ve been nothing but happy ever since! We would go through those difficult times over and over again if it meant that we’d get you in the end each time. We both love you to the ends of the world and back again – and that will never, ever change.
Happy birthday, my little bunny. I love you so much!
Love,
Mommy
Birthday Eve
I lied yesterday. I wasn’t done crying. I held it together all day – and then we got home from dinner and I fell apart.
I know nothing is changing – Matthew will be the same baby tomorrow as the one I just put to bed – but oh my heart hurts.
B and I were talking about what we were doing a year ago tonight. We were getting ready for our scheduled c-section and were unable to sleep, anxious to meet our baby the next morning. It was a bittersweet night, though, because as anxious as I was to meet Matthew, I was dreading the end of my pregnancy. I was dreading it because I loved feeling him moving inside me – I always had my little buddy with me – wherever I went. Not a moment went by that I wasn’t aware that I wasn’t alone, and I loved that. I knew I’d miss that – and you know what? I really did for the first few weeks. But – having Matthew in my arms was better than having him in my belly and tomorrow will probably be similar. Having him growing and learning new things just makes him more and more fun.
B did say that last year at this time, he didn’t know he’d be sitting on the floor a year from then, with a duck in his mouth and pushing a turtle car. HA! B always knows how to lighten the mood!
I kept Matthew up extra late tonight. I just wasn’t ready to say goodnight to the past year.
Goodnight, sweet, wonderful year full of memories. Goodnight, best year of my life. Goodnight, beautiful, loved, cherished boy.
Goodnight, sleep tight, Mommy’s going to miss you tonight.
NOC (Note of Cuteness) – 2
Matthew helped me with the laundry today. He is always trying to get into the laundry room, so I let him come with me to switch some towels from the washer to the dryer. When I started the dryer, he pulled himself up on a laundry basket to watch the clothes spinning around. It was adorable! I took a few photos so B could see the cuteness!
I spoke with my sister on the phone afterwards when M was taking an epic 2.5 hour nap. She mentioned something that hadn’t dawned on me. She said that she loves it when her kids are seeing something, something that we may find mundane, for the very first time. She said that she forgets sometimes that everything is new to them. I hadn’t really thought about the fact that watching the clothes spinning around and around was probably very enlightening to M. When my sister said this, I pictured all of those neurons firing in his brain!
It appears that I now have quite the helper around the house. I wouldn’t have it any other way 🙂
Note of Cuteness (NOC)
As M does cute things that I desperately want to remember, I am going to post them here because after all, this blog is for him. So here’s the first “Note of Cuteness,” or NOC for short.
M loves bath time more than anything. He knows the minute you start taking off his outfit, that it’s time for a bath. I was so sad the other day when he threw up all over himself, and I had to change his entire outfit and he thought he was getting a bath. He looked so disappointed when I took him into his room to put on new clothes. Had we not been walking out the door, I would have given him an extra bath! But this is not my NOC tonight.
M has learned to crawl, and he’s quite efficient at it which came very quickly. I stripped him down in his room tonight after I’d drawn his bath water (which he hadn’t seen, but had likely heard) and he immediately rolled onto his tummy, was up on his hands and knees, and took off for the bathroom. Buck naked. He was moving so fast that he left me behind as I put his clothes in the hamper. I thought, “surely he isn’t headed for the bathroom. He can’t know where he’s going.” But he did. He turned corners like I’ve never seen him turn corners before – he was so excited! He’s a fast crawler for being so new at it, and this was like the ultimate race! I wish I had a video of it. I will strip him down in his room tomorrow night with a camera in hand!
For memories sake, here are some old bath time photos:
M with his trusty pal, Janie! She's even by his side at bath time!
All the Sun For You 