Reunited!

I had to use Grandma's camera cause my camera battery died.

Cutest thing I ever did see... the smile on my boys face as he studied his father's face. The pure joy beaming off of him after seeing his daddy for the first time after a whole week apart. He smiled, studied, touched his face gently, then SQUEALED with joy...

You think that would be it, but no... it gets cuter...

With every word that Jeffry spoke to him... he would start to giggle and laugh and squeal... he hadn't really laughed all week... I thought I was gonna lose it with how sweet and loving that was.

Jeff said he was surprised by his reaction... I asked why, because I knew David would be excited to see him... he just didn't expect David to care that much I guess... but that boy LOVES his daddy!!! I think this experience really hit Jeff... it was so sweet, I wish I had caught it on video. :)

My heart is all warm and melty right now. :3

Jeff brought my battery charger and card reader, so I'm excited to take some more pictures this weekend. :)

Before Jeff got here I was cleaning up after making David's dinner...

You have to know first that Grandma is always yelling at Daddy about putting things on David's head...

so what does Grandma do?

But he loved it....
And here is his St. Patrick's Day picture... my little 7 month old baby boy... with the luck of the Irish... or at least a little bit of Irish... since I'm only a quarter... but yeah. What a cutie he is.

(Showin' off those new teeth too!)

Well I'm gonna go get me so hugs and snuggles from Jeffy... and sit and watch the loving gaze of my son to his father... sooo sooo sooo very sweet I could eat it all up in seconds. :)

Husband withdrawal...

Well its almost the end of the week, meaning my husband Jeff will be here tomorrow night... I have been slowly becoming a lonely lump of sad unloved goop... when I haven't been being "Mommy" I've been sitting with my laptop chatting with Jeffry on msn, or sitting on the couch wishing for a hug... and when I say wishing, I mean "eyes shut tight wishing with every inch of your body, mind and soul" wishing...

I've always been a very physical person. I THRIVE on hugs and cuddles and love. Just one week without his loving hugs and little touches of affection have put me in a funk. I don't even want to think about what I would be like if we were away from each other for a MONTH!

To make up for some of it, David has been my snuggle bear during his afternoon naps and evening naps... sometimes in the middle of the night when he wakes up crying... I love sleeping with him, but I don't really sleep... I just get a neck and shoulder cramp while he sleeps soundly, taking up most of the bed. But I still love it... feeling him next to me... curled into my curves. God I love him so much.

Any way... David has a new hobby

Makes me laugh every time I watch it... I think I might be stealing this bouncy from Grandma George... I don't know if David could amuse himself at home with out it. He LOVES it...

Took him a day to figure it out, but as soon as he did, he became the cutest little 7 month old frog baby I've ever seen. Oh, by the way, did I mention that St. Patrick's Day was his 7 month birthday? Yesterday my little man turned 7 months old... still brings tears to my eyes every month he hits the 17th. I know I'll be saying this for the rest of my life, but... I can't believe my little man is already 7 months old... (I can hear myself saying, "I can't believe my little man is 32 years old".) Goes by too fast I tell ya.

He's going through this phase I can't quite figure out though... Its like the mommy phase, but I make him cry? Well... only when he's really tired... but otherwise as soon as he sees me he starts to fuss for me... he's better after I pick him up, IF I pick him up... usually if I leave the room he goes back to what he was doing... it makes it hard to get things done.

Oh! And good news... my mother in law's camera cord worked with my Nikon, so I was able to get some pictures off my camera from this week. Not from yesterday, cause my battery died... (sad panda)... but either way, pictures are pictures!

I will upload more later when I have a bit more time to go through the pictures. I still have to do a post about his day with his Aunts! Which was quite the day for him.

Keep praying for a quick healing for Grandpa Jeff. He is starting to get restless having to sit in that green chair all day and night. They say he'll be out of work for 4 weeks... for sure... so lets hope after that he'll be healed enough to get back to things so he doesn't go too stir crazy.

Love!

The thing about toes...

"[He] resumed contemplation of his toes. These, to his never-failing and delighted surprise, continued to be ten in number, no matter how suddenly and without warning he descended upon them; his startled cataloguing of the suspicious members constituted at present his chief employment, and the subsequent deep breath of... relief on finding that all was well and not one of them had escaped his vigilance was one of the joys of his parents." - Josephine Daskam, The Memoirs of a Baby (1904)

I love sitting here watching my son interact with his toes... out of all the toys and objects around him, he perfers his feet.  The sounds of joy and pure happiness when he gets that first sock off just melts my heart, and no matter how my day is going, he gets a smile from the ashes of my frowns.

You just can't NOT smile when he obsesses over those cute tasty little feet.

After awhile, I too have to join him and see what it so fun about his feet... exploring his tiny little toes, feeling them wrap around my fingers as he flexes them and wiggles them, all the while with a huge grin on his face.  Then just for fun, I have to give them a taste, so I kisses them toe by toe, then the soles.  That really gets him squeeling.  Mmm nothing like baby toes. :)

Oh! to be a child again... the simple joys... makes me feel like I remember what it was to be like a infant child... though I think I'm mistakened... I really don't think I remember anything any more... now its all just fiction in my mind.  Telling stories back and forth in baby talk to David... he tells stories back... while we share the sweet baby smells and taste of his cute, sweet, tasty little feet.

Its nice to pretend...