What I love about you.

Sweet boy.  The days are flying by...I take that back.  This year is flying by, but most days do pass rather slowly.  Teething has a way of doing that, I guess.  You have one little tooth on the top, another one poking through on the bottom, and I think you'll get your second top one after that.  Letting you gnaw on my finger is not an option anymore.

There are things about you at this sweet little almost 9 month stage that I feel sure I will remember forever, but just in case, I'm writing them down.

I love...


The way you giggle when I tickle your "chunky chunky thighs."  It's always so hilarious to you.
(Ignore my 15 chins in this otherwise precious picture.)

The way you crawl over to me when I'm laying on the ground playing with you and give me a slobbery mouth-plant on my cheek...your version of a kiss.  Only now, you have teeth, so it kind of hurts a little bit.

How you are always standing up in your crib waiting on me when I come to get you up from your nap.

How sometimes you just want to be held.  You could be screaming your lungs out and when I pick you up, you lay your head down, suck your thumb, and your other little arm just flops down at your side.

The way you stick your thumb in your mouth after every. single. bit. of food.

Your little blonde eyelashes and your whispy blonde hair.

How you show off by pulling up on something and then holding on with just one hand. You are just so cool.

How you started waving all by yourself.  I tried to teach you once or twice, but then you just started doing it one day all on your own.  Except it's more like a salute.  Daddy calls it the "right hand of fellowship."

How you hold out your little hand like you're trying to snap.

The way you look when you fall asleep in your carseat.  Precious lips, sweaty hair sticking up, and hands laying limp in your lap.  You're the sweetest.

How attatched you are to me at this current stage.  You don't like me to leave the room for a second.  It gets a little tiring, but I know it won't always be this way so I'm soaking it up.  I love that you know that  I'm your person.

The way you decided to start listening to stories without trying to eat the pages.  It's really great.  And the other day, you fell asleep on me while I was reading to you.  I didn't move for a long, long, time.

How you love your daddy.  It's so cute to watch y'all "be boys" together...growling, roughhousing, etc.

The cheesy smile you do. It's kind of hard to describe, but it's hilarious.  It looks like this...

Sometimes when I'm working on my shutterfly book or something, and I get the feeling that someone is looking at me, I look down and see this...

I love you, son! You make my world so much sweeter :)