I just had a serious case of deja vu. I'm pretty sure this time last year I posted with the same title. Funny how much a year really does change.
This year has been a whirlwind. I'm gearing up to start planning for Sullly's birthday party in 1 1/2 months. Hard to believe right? My little baby is looking and acting more and more like a little boy everyday. He has 6 teeth, has been attempting to let go of things and take a step (before he falls), can say Mama, Dada, and Duhduhduh (Dog, haha!). He's learned how to clap, pat his mouth, and dance which melts my heart. He can give open mouth kisses and I guarantee you'll never get a better hug from someone so little. We've also learned the art of throwing tantrums, understand no, run away (crawling like the wind) when we've been into something naughty and crawling on top of things.
He loves animals and I see so much of myself in how he is with them. He goes crazy for kitties and dogs. We saved a baby hummingbird earlier this week that our cat injured. When I brought it into the house and got ready to feed it, he was sitting on my lap. It's amazing to think that a 10 month old child can harbor compassion and concern, but he did. The look on his face was like when he sees another baby crying, somehow, he knew that little bird was hurt. A child that rarely lets a second go past without moving or squealing, sat quietly - no squirms, no screams - and watched me take care of the baby bird. He's just an amazing human being that I fall more in love with every day. I'm so glad that he's my son.
He's doing great this session in his Mommy and Me music class. The child that refused to leave my lap the end of last year, so refuses to sit in it, instead opting to play in the circle time with the musical instruments and other children. He crawls around the center like he owns it. He takes all the shakers from other children like he owns those too. We're working on that.
I've started focusing on myself a little more these days. I'm walking/running and hiking with my sister about 4 times a week. We've done no less than 3 miles every time. On the off days I work out on the Wii, which I love and find super convenient to use when Sully is down for the night. Since the beginning of the year I've lost 11 lbs, which I'm super excited about since losing weight is no small thing for me. I'm watching what I'm eating, but I'm really hesitant to say the word "diet" because it really isn't. I'm just making better choices and trying to be a better example for my son. For the first time I was able to zip up my pre-pregnancy pants. Now if I could just WALK in them ....
I'm also looking to put my energy into other things rather than ice cream and trash TV. I'm trying hard to find my creative streak in writing again, something that I'm finding I miss a lot more than I thought I did. I also have a couple books that I've been meaning to read as well as a knitting kit my mom bought me for Christmas that I'm looking to try to start using.
We've also started the early stages of applying for a home loan! Shaun's cousin Krista has been awesome enough to offer her help (she's a loan officer) and is pretty optimistic that she can find us a loan to qualify us to get into something larger than a cracker box. We really didn't want to move back out into an apartment or home rental and watch all that money each month go down the drain. We will if we have to, but it's not our first option. So here we are. We have our fingers crossed that if we continue at the pace we're going. we'll be able to start seriously looking by the end of the year and have a nice down payment to put towards something.
Work has been crazy busy. I'm not sure if we're seeing a lot more applications because of the economy, if my time feels so much more limited than ever before with a crazy energetic baby boy on my hands or what but I've had stacks and stacks of work on my desk. Being out sick for a week almost with this nasty virus hasn't done me any favors either. Speaking of, I hear my desk calling my name.
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