Interests:Randomness. Expertise:Well, lets see. I am quite good at making people laugh at my ATTEMPTS to be funny. Occupation:Wife Industry:Home Making
Well, not that it is lost or anything. You see, I found ... Er... Now own an iPhone! I even have a xanga app for it so I can journal to my heart's content. Oh, happy little me.
That's right, I'm a mom. I've been a mom now for 12 weeks, although if you want to add the 9 months to that, then I've been a mom for a year. I keep seeing my little son (Dear Son aka DS) do so many wonderful cute little things and I feel like this stage is going to go by so SO quickly. I'm going to wake up one day, and he's going to be a grown married man!! AAK! But for now I'm enjoying every minute his baby stage. Who would have thought that I would go from wearing one shirt over a few days, to going down to wearing about 3 shirts in ONE day?! And not getting much sleep, but somehow still getting things done, learning that waking up in the night is totally do-able, and if DS ever sleeps longer than 6 hours, I FREAK! Who would have thought that all my mind and brain power is now exerted into a cute little body that has 10 little fingers and 10 littes toes. Who would have thought that a little "oooOOo!" and a HUGE smile would make me peak at my happy meter? Who would have thought that I would have such a wonderful healthy son?? My life will never be the same, and that makes me SO happy!
DS is to the stage now where he notices everything. I know it's just a matter of time until he starts grabbing for them. But for now, he's just happy to look, and smile ... and he seems to do this a lot quietly by himself, almost like he is sharing an inside joke with himself. Everytime I catch him doing it, it makes me smile to myself. He will look around with a quizical brow, and then suddenly BURST into a silent smile, and turn his head away. Truly you would think he'd just thought of the most hilarious thing. Right now he's in his swing, rocking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. He has chimpmunk cheeks, and he's looking around while he's rocking. He just coughed a bit right now, oh my, his little coughs are so cute! (But his yawns are the cutest). I love how he looks around all serious, until that smile comes along and whispers something funny to him and then tickles his cheeks. There, he just smiled! He doesn't notice me all the way over here on the other side of the room, but he sure listens... sometimes I wonder if he hears my thoughts...
He's discovered his hands, and he loves looking at them. He will move his fingers and just study and stare at them for a very long time. Then he will wiggle them and get an even deeper-thinking look on his face. Like "whoah! How is that happening! Will ya look at that!" make me smile.
Well, I could just type for hours about DS, but for now I really must run and do productive things
I'll be back soon, I just can't be silent about my little DS!
Lots has happened here. In fact, I'm 5 weeks away from expecting my first little child. My husband and I are so excited. I hadn't really wanted to share that on xanga until all my close friends knew and such, but then I realize now that I just completely dropped off the earth of xanga all together! Well, there was a reason for that. I was pretty sick. In fact, very sick. If you want specifics I can give them to you, but lets just say I lost about 7 pounds in the first trimester, gained it back in the second trimester, and now I'm right on track with my weight because I can finally eat and have an appetite. Yeah, so that's been my last 8 or so months.
Life is good... but really only because God is good. I had a birthday yesterday, and I could just feel Christ's warmth and love. I've been blessed more times than I can count. I'm in good health, the baby is in good health, and I'm married to a wonderful man. Yeah, life is good. Yesterday the sun was shining and I realize today how much of a gift that truly was because TODAY it was the most overcast nasty day I've seen so far this "spring" yeah, and all the snow turned mostly black and icky.
I guess that's all I can think of to write about - oh - I'm not training any service dogs right now, but perhaps you'll hear from Joel's dog, Bella. (our family pet) Earlier the two of us (yes, Bella and I) were eating cotton candy - great fun! (Have you ever seen a dog have something sticky stuck to their tongue?) teehee At first I think she thought it was pure torture, and then after she got the flavor she wouldn't leave me alone while I was holding the bag.
Actually, I did train a little cutie since Cowboy, Allie was her name. I just placed her the end of February, and she's a hyper little hearing ear dog. You should see her JUMP anytime she hears her special sounds. I loved it!
