O the places you have been! O the things that you have seen! O what experiences and adventures have you gone through and all with this glowing, brighten anyones day smile on your face. There is truly nothing better than you in this life for me and your dad right now! No obstacle is too big when you get to wake up and greet you in the morning. You are our sunshine even when the day is gray and rainy. You are the warmth on our skin, the glow on our cheeks, and the twinkle in our eye. It is hard to believe just how fast that you have grown in these few short months. Before you were born, I would have consider 9 months to be a fair amount of time in a year span, but with you here it seems like no time at all, a flash of lightning almost. It seems that way, but then I look down at you pulling your sweet self up on my jeans and I gasp in amazement in how just a short 9 months you have changed. I swear these last few weeks, everyday I feel you have truly got bigger or longer. To see change in appearance is amazing, but to see change in you cognitive ability is miraculous. I feel the one year mark quickly approaching marking the celebration of your birth and I sit in amazement of all that you have accomplished. My dad said something very witty today that made me stop and think just what an gift it is to watch a baby, but especially you, learn. He said, "if an adult could learn just as quickly as a baby we would all be geniuses." What a true statement that is. You are a sponge in the sea of life soaking up all its qualities to be learned. My heart flutters and my stomach tickles to think of you from a newborn to this age. I can only imagine what you will have in store of me in the very near future. So, what's been happening that has got me talking like this, I am sure you are wondering... boy o boy what has been happening.
You finally got to experience your first Christmas and what a Christmas it was. TOYS TOYS TOYS, but more importantly PAPER, PAPER, and MORE PAPER. I mean because that is what the true meaning of Christmas is to an infant. :) Just the three of us for Christmas and I won't have had it any other way. Pajamas and all! Not to soon after did we embark on your first plane ride to Chicago to take you to meet the family. We took 2 planes there, 2 planes back, a hand full of car rides, 2 train rides, and did some walking. As usual you were the hit of the trip and the best sport there is! You never shed a tear on any planes or trains. You slept and played. You sucked people in, STRANGERS, with your charm and good manners and to imagine you weren't even 8 months old yet. We welcome our first new year with you in Chicago with a family bash that you quietly bowed out of because it was your bed time. You met cousins, 1st cousins, and so,e once removed cousins lol, you met great aunts and uncles, and made new friends. You got to see and play in snow for the first time ever in your life, although you didn't know much of what to think about it you did try to eat it and it was cold. You traveled to the city and walked the streets with us in you Bjorn. You froze so much that we had to go get some food to defrost! You loved what it seemed to be every min. of it. Expect for bedtime of course! Still not sleeping through the night, but it is getting better. You are crawling faster than superman can fly. Your knees even get chapped from it! After the trip we came home and left the next day for a 6 hour drive so that daddy could go on a interview a Infopro, his first really interview after college, plus you got to see gpa and gma for the weekend. We got back to Tallahassee for only one short week to learn dad had gotten the job and we had to move in 2 weeks to be back to Huntsville, AL. We packed and thanks to the help of your wonderful Uncle Leo we made it out and up to Huntsville by the skin of our teeth. Now here we are one week into living in a new place and I think you think you are still on a really long vacation. It probably doesn't help that we are temporarily staying with gpa and gma so we can find a place. They are loving it though, at least I think so. Most of all, you are loving it. All the people all the attention and never a dual day. At first it seemed you and gpa were so tight, but recently you have found a great buddy in gma. You pull yourself up and bang on her door and whimper until she opens it. This, however, does not discredit the bond you have with gpa. Something really special between you too. Something you have with no one else. It is wonderful the brightness you bring to his life, a light a rarely saw in the last few years until you came along. Likewise in all of our lives. Part of me wishes I could stop time and keep you in these perfect moment that I see you in, but another part of me doesn't because I so look forward to watching you grow into this wonderful man that I know will do great things. If nothing else you will bring joy into my life and all of the people that will surround you. Because of you the world is already a better place and once again, you are only almost 9 months old.
Ps. You are starting to figure out that the legs you stand on can make you walk amazing right?!
All my love,
Mommy
