5 months!

well littles...as you can see I no longer update weekly! I went back to work so every single second I have I want to spend with you. So I'll just hop on here randomly as you do stuff...which, wow you are doing SO much! This month, especially the past couple of weeks you have reached so many milestones. Where shall I start :) Let's see - you now bring toys to your mouth and "Purana" them as we call it. You no longer like to lay like a baby - you like to always be sitting up looking around. - - - Gosh, I wrote the above 4 days ago. Time is just flying by waaaay too fast. And I have a feeling that I'm only gonna get a few sentences out now...you are squealing loudly in your swing..having a rough time falling asleep tonight. Hmmm, could it be b/c its 90 degrees in our house - I'm exaggerating - its only 87. - - Dear Littles, it has been a long time since I've written in your journal. I can honestly say that the past month has been the most amazing one of my life. You are getting bigger and our new life has begun. I can't even begin to explain how many emotions you have brought to me. These are the days I have imagined ever since I was a upper-elementary aged girl. Amy & I were only 10 years old when we used to go to Pizza Hut alone and would talk to each other loudly around the staff that we had to be home by 4 so the babysitter could leave. We would pretend that we were "grown up" friends. When I moved in late middle school I remember crying but we were comforted by always saying "someday we will live close by again and our kids will grow up together". Here we are literally 19 years later - living less than a mile away with our kids growing up together. So many "wonderings" of what will MY baby be like? What will he laugh at, how will it feel to have someone longing for ME to hold him, and ME to be the one to protect and be responsible for his every need. No matter how I envisioned it never did I even come close to realizing how much love I would feel for someone. I sometimes just stop and stare at you and am brought to tears that I can be so blessed. I am the luckiest person in the world to have you. Okay, now on to what you are doing and our schedule, I think that will be fun to look back on someday when you are much older and these days seem like forever away...so I work 5-6 hrs on MW, 7-8 hours on TR, and Fri's from like late morning until 5ish. Your normal schedule is to eat cereal btwn your evening and 1st night feeding, around 6 or 7, take a bath, cuddle, sing, you watch your movie - Baby Mozart and I load the bottles. You go in your swing after the movie. You are starting to get in the habit of certain things and its hilarious. During your movie there is this part where it looks like shampoo is dripping and you get bored so you start to back bend and blow bubbles - how weird, right now it is 9:30 and you just woke up and I now hear you blowing bubbles!!! How do you know its the early wkend for us and time to party?! I will be back later - going to start our 1st 4th of july wkend with you. Can't wait!!!

Your 1st 4th of July was awesome! We went to Jack & Jill's lake house. There were lots of dogs & lots of kids there so you were in heaven. 2 of your favorite things! You slept through the first part of the fireworks, then woke up - watched a few, and fell back to sleep in my arms. Just cuddled in, oblivious to the loud booms everywhere! What a great day I had with you :) You "drove" the boat with Jill and loved watching the kids swim. The boat tuckered you out - you fell asleep on our ride back. You are just such a good baby - you didn't even cry all day and we were in a strange place to you with lots of different strangers passing you around. You just continued to pass out your adorable smiles to all!