Everyday Surprises

Adam has been surprising us everyday with new words.  Not just words.  Entire phrases.  This morning as Daniel was putting Adam’s mittens on he asked if he wanted his hat on.  Adam politely stated “I do”.  Yesterday evening he got in the car and Daniel did the normal routine of giving him his toys.  Adam said “car” then “keys’ then “man” .  He’s never called his little figurine “man” before.  He’ll say I love you, vitamin (pronounced my-min), yeah, nice, bad, and many more that I’m sure I’m forgetting.  We’re getting closer to potty training.  He’s learned when he’s stinky and he’ll go straight to the room for a diaper change.  He was supposed to have already started training, but with the new arrival we decided to hold off until his world seemed normal to him again.  So, in a few weeks we’ll begin. 

I can’t believe my baby girl is already over a week old.  She’s just my princess.  Today she was kinda fussy.  I can usually settle her down pretty quick once we’ve had a bottle and diaper change.  But, today she just can’t seem to get totally relaxed.  We’ve walked  and talked.  We’ve cuddled and shooshed (it’s supposed to sound like the noises they hear in the womb).  She’s beginning to be awake for a little while now, but she still sleeps tons.  I’m really enjoying my time with her.  It’s just so special.  I think I took Adam’s birth for granted.  He was such an easy baby and had no health scares or issues.  After he was born I was intrigued by him, but I got bored at home after so many weeks.  I’m sure to get bored, but I realized today just how blessed and thankful I am to be able to hold her.  I will make it a point to spend as much time appreciating my alone time with her that I can.  I have a friend who’s daughter passed only 20 hours after birth.  This happened a couple of years ago, but to see how she still grieves everyday for her just breaks my heart.  I’ve been given two beautiful, mostly healthy children and she has none.  It’s awful just to think about what she’s been through.  

Daniel has to work all weekend long probably and the next.   This sucks for me.  I’m not released from the doctor to do anything!  But, on the bright side, I am thankful that he has a job and they need them to work overtime.  The money will be great considering I am only getting half my salary.  I just hope he isn’t too exhausted to spend some time with us once he’s done.

Daniel and I are still trying to decide where to go on our big vacation in September.  I don’t think we’ll make it to Jamaica.  It would be great, but I think that’s just going to stretch our budget.  Daniel’s never been to Colorado, so we’re looking into that.  I think I’d like to look into San Diego too.  I know we’ve been there, but it would be nice to go again and see more stuff.  We just didn’t have enough time to do more stuff and Adam didn’t have the patience to let us try.  If anyone else has ideas, please send them our way.  We’d love to hear suggestions and go somewhere new.

I’m thinking of moving the blog to blogspot.  I like the layouts of the blogs I’ve seen on there alot.