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January 2nd, 2009 — The First Year
Last January you were a tiny hope. You were the possibility of being. Now here you are! Almost four months old! It is humbling what one year can do.
I was thinking about how glad I am that you were born in September because it meant that 2008 was all about you. I found out that you were definitely coming into our lives on your Uncle Adam’s birthday, January 15th. This coming January 15th will find you able to scoot across the floor (slowly), smile and, recently, laugh (that’s your new and, definitely, my favorite development that happens most often when I put the top of my head on your belly and wiggle it back and forth which makes my hair tickle your face. You love it for some reason). You can hold your head up without much struggle at all and you just rolled over for the first time! So much progress and so much more to come.
When I look at you, you feel like my earliest science lessons in potential and kinetic energy. Last January I felt like we were a science experiment. With each passing month I felt we were on a roller coaster creeping higher and higher up the first major hill. Your birth felt like an exhilerating plunge that sent you out on what will be the most incredible ride. Now that you are here, I feel like you are so full of energy - a ball set in motion, a roller coaster on a thrilling, white-knuckled, exhilerating…zoom! - and all I can do is try to keep up and help keep the train on its track.
Happy New Year, buddy! I hope each new year is a really fun ride.
p.s. I can’t include a special New Year’s picture of you doing anything celebratory because you slept through it. Way to ring in 2009!
December 25th, 2008 — The First Year
HOLY CRAP LOOK AT HOW AWESOME IT IS!
IT’S SO AWESOME!
YOU CAN’T BELIEVE IT!
December 21st, 2008 — The First Year
Just took a pretty fun 2-day trip to the Wilderness Lodge. The Christmas tree there is 7 stories tall. We rode a Surrey Bike and sung songs from “Hello Dolly” while I clanged a bell at passers-by. I made you sit through the hauntingly creepy boat-light show (at 9:35pm).
All in all we had a great time on a Disney Resort trip without going to one of the parks!
December 21st, 2008 — The First Year
December 16th, 2008 — The First Year
We can totally tell how excited you’re getting for Christmas! While we didn’t get you a Nintendo 64, I’m pretty sure you will flip out (someday) as a result of our awe-inspiring gifts.
December 11th, 2008 — The First Year
…because you are eating it.
December 11th, 2008 — The First Year
What a difference one week makes. Between week 11 and week 12 you have learned to suck just your thumb and not your whole hand, you have grown to be nearly 18 pounds, and you sleep through the night! Yay! For 6 nights straight you have slept eight hours, then you’ll sleep another couple hours after you eat something and you’ll have two good sized naps during the day. I find that I miss you sometimes because you’re sleeping so much!
Tonight you’ll officially hit the 3 month mark and I can’t tell you enough how much I love you and how much fun I’m having watching you grow and learn. At three months old I can already tell what a happy and curious little boy you are. People will comment on just how alert you are when we’re out and about. Your giant eyes just seem to be soaking up everything they see. I feel like I can actually watch your brain learning new things. You follow movement with your eyes and just recently started grabbing for things. The very best new development is your gargle voice. You’ll just talk and talk making funny sounds and then start to gargle. Then you’ll smile your fun crooked smile and it’s the best thing ever.
We’re busy getting ready for your 1st Christmas. We’re going to spend a couple nights at Disney World soon. You just saw your very first fireworks and I was afraid they’d scare you, but instead you stared at them and then flailed your arms and legs really big and smiled at the giant lights in the sky.
Motherhood has an interesting way of making you think about everything a little differently. I’ve felt much more forgiving and empathetic lately. I find myself saying about criminals on TV or people who are rude in line at the grocery store, “that guy has a mother, too” or “that girl once learned to suck her thumb, too”. For some reason, picturing someone as a baby with a mother of their own who once looked down at their child in amazement and adoration helps me be more understanding of people I might not have been otherwise. I saw the moment you first put just your thumb in your mouth and started to suck on it and thought how incredible and strange it is that we all develop the same skills around the same time. Around the world, babies around 3 months old are all figuring out how to hold their heads up, how to make their bodies laugh, how to suck their thumbs. If that’s true, in a weird way I find myself asking how can we not have peace in this world?
November 30th, 2008 — The First Year
You slept through most of Thanksgiving, but did wake up long enough to see the turkey, cry during my toast, and then eat right along with the whole family at the table! I also had a first this Thanksgiving. I cooked my first turkey! You can see the three of us in the picture - you, me, and the turkey, Oscar. He looks pretty darn good, if I do say so myself…tasted good, too.
I have a lot to be thankful for this year, but you top the list, Jho!
November 21st, 2008 — The First Year
And I’m not sorry. More photos over at our flickr.
November 21st, 2008 — The First Year
You had some extremely strange things to say. Your first words?
Cookie Day!
Which I guess is a holiday that you wish existed. Me too, man, me too.
Whoopsiedoodle!
When you knock something over, I guess that works. That’s really all you could say, actually. “Cookie Day” and “Whoopsiedoodle.” I guess I need to read to you more.
