Thanksgiving...

I'm certain I can speak for your Da on this account by saying we are most thankful for you this year, and for what you have meant to our family as a whole. Both your Daddy and I get quite emotional together, thanking each other for being such a great spouse, becoming a parent. You father is a wonderful man for many reasons, but one I admire and cherish is his ability to verbalize his love for me, and now you. He seems to be so happy with where he is in life right now. I'm thankful for a greater sense of family than I ever had before. I'm thankful to know myself better than I thought I could. I'm thankful your father and I have the opportunity to have our love grow in new and boundless ways. I'm thankful for the challenges, the rewards, all the learning, all the laughter. I'm thankful for you in ways that words can never describe. I'm astounded that we are just 6.5 months into this journey together. 

Calling all Holidays...

We are now entering the time of year I love most. Your Uncle Craig arrives tonight to join us for Thanks-giving this week. As usual we will have lots of friends over. I'm so excited to introduce you to smells, sounds, sights of things that will continually illicit joy in your heart for years to come. Your Nana did such an amazing job giving me a never-ending supply of joyous memories to look back on as a kid... but I would have to say the Spirit of this season that was breathed into us I truly treasure. Already I have taken you to stores on days when we have nothing else to do, just to play in the Christmas isles. To see your fascination with bows, snow globes, jingle bells, and ornaments is so glorious for me to watch. I totally teared up waiting in line downtown with you for your first encounter of Santa because my heart felt so connected to my Mom and her feelings towards him... and then I realized I'm a mom too! I love singing you Christmas carols also. They have always been some of my favorite songs and I'm sure years from now you will still get sprinklings of Christmas songs year-round as lullabies.

You leaf me laughing...

You and I had the best time together yesterday. We went to a little girl's birthday party, nothing noteworthy there, in fact you slept through some of it and then the rest was just too crazy for your momma to stand very long. So you and I went out into the cold, windblown yard and happened into a pile of leaves. Wet and smelling of decomposition, we plopped down right in the middle of them. I threw them in the air around us, held up handfuls and let the wind pull them free, shook my hands in them to make lots of rustling noises and you just laughed and laughed. You loved it. Sitting on my lap you reached forward to get your own hands in the action, flapping both arms making the leaves "crunch" on your own. Means it will be even more exciting to you next fall. 

Trick or Treat?

Totally a treat... this week, that is. Your Nana has been here and it's been a joy to see how much she loves you and wants to be with you. That is one of the best gifts I could've gotten, seeing my Mother in love with you. She made you the BEST costume, a little dragon. We were all going to dress up, but since you would have stolen the show anyway, we did not. Everywhere we went people "Oh-ed and Ah-ed" about you. People went out of their way to come over and admire you, take pictures of you, talk to you. You were so accommodating too, just as sweet as can be to all these strangers coming up to you. Also, big news!, your first tooth poked through on Halloween day. I'm thankful now that I know why you've been kinda off this past week. I imagine it's alot of new and not-so-great feelings in your small mouth. I'm also nervous of the teeth to come. It's funny, it made me sad momentarily since I love your smile "as is" and felt like "oh, no! he's growing up so fast already". Still, it's rewarding to see you progress. We were going to start you on sweet potatoes for your first solid food while Nana was here but with the new tooth going on I think we will wait until you are more settled with it. I'm sooooo tired. I'm going to grab you outta your crib and head to bed as we are the only two here and I can't wait to curl up with you.