Happy Ten Months Birthday!

here's a list of things you did today, to commemorate your 10 months birthday:

you shopped (twice!)

vomited (once. but you are definitely feeling better and didn't have a fever.)

tried raw onion for the first time (you liked it?)

played with some beads with Bella (and only fought over them a little bit)












ate some antibiotic (3 tsp total)

dove off the couch and got your first bruise on your forehead

chilled out in your walker on the back porch until a mosquito bit you

cried yourself to sleep for a few minutes, because i couldn't stand there any longer while you insisted to hold my hand. it was kind of awful, but i think it might be better for both of us in the long run if you can get to sleep better on your own. it's the first time i've let you cry like that in a long time, and it made me pretty sad. but it's the first time you successfully fell asleep on your own, so maybe it's something that will just have to happen for a few nights.

so it was a day of ups and downs. all of this happened in the midst of/before/or after
more unpacking at new house. someday it will all be out of boxes and orderly, and easier to enjoy by everyone. oh, how we all look forward to that day.

i sometimes worry that you don't get as much attention as you should. i mean, you're with me all the time, and lately usually on my hip or person somewhere. but being carried around while i do other stuff, or being driven here or there, or whatever, is not the same as the interaction that i haven't really been able to give you lately. (the same is certainly true for sam lately as well.) someday soon we will be on the floor in your room playing with your blocks together more. and reading books in the big chair more often. until then, i will have to be confident that you are developing fine, and you are happy. you crawl and pull up, and you talk to us in your little sweet voice, and you are beautiful. i can't believe you will be a year old in just a couple months.

sorry if this post seems like a bit of a downer. i think we all need a vacation. good thing we're going to silver dollar city tomorrow!

love, mom