You are the smartest little man I know. Your vocabulary is growing by leaps and bounds. You repeat everything we say, which is slightly terrifying. You can name all of your grandparents & great grandparents (along with mommy & daddy, obviously). Your favorite words right now:
- Ball
- Grant
- Please
- Thank you
- Coop Coop
- Doug Doug
- Eat Eat (that's your favorite)
- Night Night
- Woof Woof
- Not Nice (didn't know you knew how to say this until Cooper took your ball and you pointed your finger and said "not niiiiiice". Now you say it all.the.time.)
- No
- Juice (I don't tell you that it's just water)
- I Love You (with mama's help)
- Beep Beep
You are into EVERYTHING. You legitimately never. ever. stop. Mama is chasing you from the minute we get home from school, until we put you to bed. I've grown to love bath time because 1. you love it, and 2. you're contained for about 15 minutes! You hate it when I was your face though, and have learned to flip over and lay on your belly in the bathtub as soon as you see me break out the washrag.
You still go to bed at 6:30 on weeknights, and I wake you up between 6:00 and 7:00am, depending on the day. You don't take a good nap at daycare, and play hard all day long, so you're exhausted by the time we get home. However, on the weekends, you stay up a little bit later, and will sleep in until 7:30 or 8:00am (which is amazing). You've learned to climb the stairs, which is so fun, yet so scary for this mama's heart. It's your night time treat - you know when I say it's time for night night, that you get Doug Doug, your paci, and get to climb the stairs. When we finally make it to the top, we stop in the bathroom for a quick minute to brush your teeth before heading to bed. We added baby toothpaste to your toothbrush, which makes a world of difference - you LOVE brushing your teeth now - it was a total battle before!
When you're home in your element, you'll take either 1 3-4 hour nap, or (2) 2-hour naps. You've never been a rocker - since you were a baby, I've been able to lay you down and you go right to sleep. These last couple weeks though, you've let me rock you for about 10 minutes, and then I put you down. If I would have tried that 2 months ago, you would have just tried playing peek-a-boo for 10 minutes. You've even fallen asleep in my arms a couple of times, which has absolutely slayed me. I could snuggle with you all day long, but since you won't sit still for 10 minutes, I'll take all of the post-sleeping snuggles I can. Sometimes your daddy or I have to work later into the evening, and don't get to see you like we want to. We'll sneak into your room after you're sleeping, scoop you up, and bring you into our room where we fight over who gets to sit in the recliner and snuggle with you. Sometimes we come to a truce and all snuggle in bed. I've even convinced your daddy to let you sleep in bed with us. You don't slow down, even in your sleep - so we usually end up putting you back in bed in the middle of the night :)
At the beginning of April, most of our surrounding schools went on spring break. Well, being a family not currently in the public school system, your momma got serious FOMO (fear of missing out, in case that term isn't cool when you start reading this. Heck, it might not even be cool anymore for all I know). I created our own {not so} spring break. My plans went a little sideways when we had to take a trip to CHOA on day 2 of spring break. You fell at daycare, and I got a phone call at work saying you had fallen and sustained a head injury, and that it looked bad and I should come quick. Of course my heart sank, and that 2 mile drive from my store to your daycare was the longest drive ever. Once I got there, you were sitting at the front desk trying to eat the popsicle they were using as an ice pack. Even though you seemed OK, I had to reassure myself and take you to urgent care. Had something been wrong, I never would have forgiven myself. I swear that I'm going to wrap you in bubble wrap and put your daddy's old football helmet on you!
You spent time at both Mema & Poppa's, as well as Mimi & G's. Uncle Coco & Aunt Katie even watched you one day instead of you going to daycare. You have so much fun playing with your cousins and grandparents, and are spoiled rotten everywhere you go.
The Easter Bunny came to see you again this year - I guess you were good enough! Actually - does the Easter Bunny come based on how good you are like Santa, or just because? I guess mama should ask him. Either way, he spoiled you too! We spent Saturday at Millie Kate's soccer game, plus having lunch with Mema & Poppa. We went to church with Mimi & G, and then had Easter lunch with the Garner clan. All you kiddos looked precious in your coordinating (and unplanned) outfits!
Daddy and I went to a concert, and you stayed with Mimi & G. The next morning, we woke up and had a biscuit date at the Red Barn in Lawrenceville, then went to get coffee & play in the park. These are some of my favorite days - the "do as we please" days that have no agenda. I'm learning quickly that those days are few and far between for our family, and to soak them up as quickly as I can!
Grant Thomas - you are, by far, my favorite adventure. I love everything about you. I look forward to your grinning face when I pick you up from daycare. I love that sleepy grin as you stick your arms out for me to pick you up out of your crib. As annoying as it can be, I love the sweet "momma. mommy. mooooommmmmyyyy. MAMA" that comes from the back seat on any car ride we take together. Your high fives rival any adult, and they are given with the biggest grin. My mission is to make you laugh as much as possible on a daily basis. I still don't feel like I know what I'm doing as a mom, but I can promise you I love doing it. You, sweet boy, fill that baby shaped hole in my heart that's been there as long as I can remember. God put me on this earth to be YOUR mommy, and I'm so thankful that he did. I couldn't ask for a better son...it still bewilders me to call you my son, 17 months later. I don't think I'll ever get over the excitement of knowing YOU are MINE, forever and always, little one.
P.S. I only took a couple of pictures on my camera in May, and my phone crashed and I lost all of my pictures on there :( So this is all we have:
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