greatest thing ever

hi--

Your dad and I think you are so cute that we mostly don't bother containing ourselves about it. We sneak in to your room at night to watch you sleep, we hold you as much as we can, we talk about you, we photograph you, obviously, and we just can't wait for every next thing you will do. We love you in every sense of what that word means and also in a new way that we did not know about until we met you.

Right now you are asleep in your swing after a morning of making me laugh with your wildly darting eyes-- your vision is changing alot right now, or so I learned from the book Touchpoints- and you are starting to really see things around you so it is very exciting. You flap your arms around, smile, make spit bubbles on your mouth and funny noises and giggle- when we are lucky. We are hoping to catch it on video in the next week so that everyone can see it.

I feel bad thinking about you constantly because there have to be other things in the world. But when I am with you, there is nothing else except your dad and when I am not with you, I miss you in a way that hurts physically. But of course-- you are doing great at your two day care locations and they think you are the best as well. It must be sad for the other babies in the world to not be as cute as you. Your dad and I joke around that your subsequent sibling(s) will be not as cute as you because that is simply impossible.

On Monday you are going to get two more vaccines. I hate it. But you will also get weighed, measured and get to show off to Dr. Hendrickson how perfect you are. I am looking forward to that.

Right now the main mum lesson that I am learning is to look at you. To turn off the TV, to put down the to do list and to look at you, laugh at you and know that you are changing at a fast pace. So, unless you are asleep ( and sometimes I watch you do that) I need to make you my first priority view. Four months has gone by so fast, I can hardly imagine how it will feel when you are one, five or even twenty years old!!!

mom