Things I Love

Before haircut #4

After 1st big boy haircut with the clippers. Oh, he looks too old!

So Lincoln is now nearly 8 months old. I was thinking today about all of the things I really love about this age. I love:

-that he loves me so much.

Last week when I took Kacia to girl scouts, Kevin said Lincoln walked (in his walker) over to the front door, stuck his thumb in his mouth and just waited for me. Then on Sunday, when Kevin was trying to let me get an extra hour of sleep, he had to keep chasing Lincoln down the hallway because he kept crawling to my room.

-that Kacia and Rylin still ask to hold him everyday just like when he was a newborn.

He no longer just lays in their arms, but rather does everything he can to crawl out of their arms, but still they ask everyday.

-that sometimes in the middle of the night, after he eats, he stretches like a tiny newborn, and I'm reminded that yes he's growing fast, but he's still my baby.

You know that stretch, when they arch their back and stick out their little butt, and stretch their arms even though they're sleeping.

-that when he's ready for a nap, I lay him down, he tucks his knees, sticks up his butt, thumb goes in and he's out!

-that when he wakes up from a good nap, I can hear him cooing, and when he sees me come in, his legs start kicking, he smiles so big and he balances himself with one arm and reaches for me with the other.

-that it just takes one silly look to get a huge grin and little cackle .

-that I can practically see the wheels turn as he figures something out.

Things that I don't so much love:

-it seems he has a constant runny nose.

-having to always sweep the floors, and having my heart skip a beat when he starts choking on something I missed.

Yesterday it was an entire leaf from an oak tree that must have been tracked in on someone's shoe.

-that he loves to crawl into bathrooms.

I do wash our floors, but still it has to be one of the grossest places for his little hands to be!

-that whenever he follows me into the kitchen, he goes straight for the garbage can.

Another gross thing for his little hands, that will later be in his mouth, to touch.

-that sometimes when I put him in his bed he refuses to lay down and just wants to crawl.

Have you ever watched a tiger at the zoo that just circles their cage, that is what it reminds me of. Lincoln gets up on all fours and just paces around in his crib circling it.

-changing his diaper is practically a 2 person job.

On a couple of occasions we have come home to his pajamas completely unsnapped because babysitters couldn't keep him still enough to snap them up and eventually just gave up (which is totally understandable.)

So that is a small glimpse of our life right now with Lincoln. It is all going by way too fast but this kid is determined to grow up and there seems to be nothing I can do about it but enjoy every minute! Even the frustrating, gross ones! :)