May 22 - May 23

Hi Lijah!
We had a whirlwind weekend didn’t we? Saturday, we ran errands, did an unsuccessful photo shoot, went to a graduation party and then walked around Village Point for a bit. It was so nice for all of your daddy’s family to see you on Saturday – all those Morris girls loved you up! You know what the best part was? You weren’t scared of any of them! You will just hang out with anyone who is showing you love. Eventually, we will have to have the stranger danger talk but, for right now, I really like that you aren’t scared of people you don’t know. Although, that does remind me of a story that your dad told me. On Saturday, you hung out with him for a bit at the bank. An employee that I really despise came up to talk to you and you started screaming. So, it isn't that you love ALL people, you just have really good taste :)

On Sunday, you hung out at Gramma Ruth’s house while your Grampa, daddy and I went to your Uncle Zachary’s graduation. I think you enjoyed all of the dogs and seeing your cousin. I noticed something for the first time yesterday – we might have to start early in teaching you how to share. I was holding you and your cousin Tyler was playing with one of your toys. You would not take your eyes off of that toy for the entire time. You were almost throwing daggers at him. I bet that all of your friends at daycare will help with learning how to share too. Afterwards, we went to see Great Gramma Lang for a bit since you missed your date with her on Friday. You were rolling all over the kitchen table then Gramma busted out a new treat for you – she found a walker at the thrift store for you. We plopped you in it and you were content playing with the toys. I have a feeling that Great Gramma’s, Grampa’s and Gramma Debbie’s houses are all going to end up being filled with your stuff soon!

Last night, I was pondering some things in my head and came up with a really important fact for myself. I am about to get deep on you. You won’t care now, but, maybe when you are older, some of this will resonate with you. See, your mom has a hard time shutting her brain down at night. I constantly think things through, get myself all worked up and then wonder why I don’t sleep well! Another few downfalls of mine are that I take things way too personally, get my feelings hurt too easily and invest myself too much in things that shouldn’t matter to me. When I whine to your cousin Brandi, she will basically blow me off on a lot of things because they don’t impact her life and they are a waste of her time. I see what she is saying but I don’t know how to turn myself into that person so I came up with an ingenius plan last night. First off, I asked myself what the most important things in my life were. Obviously, that answer is you and your dad. Then, I looked at all of the events in my life that were bothering me and I put them through a new litmus test – do these issues have anything to do with you or impact your life (positively or negatively)? If not, then they need to be swept away and ignored. It wasn’t too long after that, I fell asleep. I think it is going to take practice on my part but I need to step back and invest my time in what matters the most to me – my kiddo!

The other thing I came up with is that I spend too much time investing in stupid computer stuff like facebook and twitter. I realized that it doesn’t really matter to me what my high school classmates are doing – I went 17 years without hearing from them so I don’t really need to hear from them now! That is time that I could spend hanging out with you, maybe exercising or *gasp* cleaning the house. There are people on facebook that I am truly invested in – most of your family (on both sides) are on there so I had a slight bit of a panic when I thought of how much I may miss. But, your wise cousin Jeremy popped into my head. Sometime in the past year, he had told me that he doesn’t read your blog because if I have something truly important for him to know, I will email him directly. I realized that if people truly have something important that they want us to know, they will tell us in a more personal matter than facebook! So, I deleted both of those accounts.

There you have it buddy – some of your mom’s rambling thoughts. I haven’t shared those with you in ages. We just get so busy with the everyday stuff – playing with you, keeping up with you, etc.

Now, here are your photos for these two days:
Saturday – taking a nappy with your daddy. He ate breakfast while I gave you a bottle then you both crashed on the bed. And, I am adding two from our failed photo shoot. It failed because you were tired & fussy. It also failed because it was supposed to be a surprise for your daddy’s birthday next week and he accidentally saw the photos in my email.


I love this first one - it is like you are just lounging in your bumbo!



Sunday – we did sweet potatoes today & you liked those a lot more than the squash. You opened your mouth every time the spoon came near you & you didn’t spit as many out. It was our best feeding session yet!