So today is Wednesday, February 9, 2011...and all I can say is you are getting SO BIG. All you want to do right now is stand up while holding onto ANYTHING you can get your hands on. You will be 8 months old in about a week and I have no idea where the time has gone:-( You love love love to eat, you are generally a super happy baby and most importantly - you sleep through the night (and you have since you were about 5 weeks old) which makes mommy and daddy SO much more pleasant to deal with on a daily basis.
I went to NYC yesterday with Grandma, Aunt Meghan and our friend Gail to see a talk show called The Rachael Ray Show and we didn't end up getting in. But we did make the most of the day and walked around and shopped for most of the day. You got to spend the day with Daddy and Pop...Pop was down on the floor playing with you a lot and he was loving every minute of it. You went to lunch with them and ate some of Daddy's sandwich - haha - he doesn't part with his food easily - but somehow you manage to get him to do it with a smile.
I will post a little more about some of your milestones from the past...but for now you are doing the following things already: sitting up unassisted (you have been doing that for almost 2 months now), rolling over (started that at 5 months old), army crawling (just recently started this - but you prefer to just roll back and forth to get you to your destination). You don't really have any interest in crawling...you just want to stand up and hold onto things and side step/walk around. Your legs have been strong since you were born - abnormally strong. And while you were still in the hospital after you were born - you lifted your head off my shoulder and turned it from one side to the other!! You pulled yourself into a standing position about 2 weeks ago without any help from us while you were 2 feet away from me sitting on the shelf of the pack n play and used the side of the PNP to pull yourself up! Let me just say - you startled me with that one. You are very very head strong!! And I have NO IDEA where you get that from! haha
You love to smile and laugh - your Daddy is the best at making you do both of those things because there is nothing that he doesn't do to turn himself inside out to get a laugh out of you. Grandma tries very hard - but it only works some of the time for her...although you do smile/laugh when she is changing your diaper and you pee on her (it happens more regularly than she would like to admit)...she watches you 4 days a week while Mommy is at work but I still get to spend all day on Wednesdays with you...which I look forward to every week!
We took you swimming at the Ciccotti Center a few times in the last couple of weeks. You did get in Pop's pool when you were ITTY BITTY...but you basically just fell asleep floating on the water. You do love the water though - and you walk right into it while holding our hands and then sit on our lap and splash splash splash! You get a little chilly but it only takes a couple of minutes to adjust for you to get really into it! I can't wait for this summer to see you in action at Pop's house!
Grandpa calls you BUG-A-BOO...and if history is any indication...I am sure he will call you that for as long as you let him. He loves you too - he just has a harder time of showing it.
Aunt Meghan calls you Crazy Baby. Daddy (and sometimes Mommy) call you Bubba...I am hoping that changes soon to G or Gray or something better than Bubba...we don't want to give you a complex this early in your life:-)
And I think as I wrap this up for today - I just want to tell you that you and your Daddy are the most important things in my life and I am so thankful for you every.single.day. And I am going to try and let you know that every day. I am so scared that I am going to not do right by you with showing you HOW to show emotions - so that is a promise that I make to you - I will fix that for both of us. If you need to learn before I am able to teach you - just watch your Daddy - he seems to already have it all figured out!!
I love you more than Opening Day of baseball season for the Yankees!
Mommy
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