It's been a year. And O-my how our lives have changed...for the better of course. We went from having a 5lb teeny tiny peanut to a crawling, jabbering, hilarious kiddo. Celebrating Emmett's birthday is both exciting and sad for me. Sad because the year went to fast. I really enjoyed the infant stage. I could hold him and cuddle for hours. Now cuddle time is 3-5 minutes tops because he wants down or wants into something. It's also sad because it goes too fast. Right now and for a little while longer I make all the important decisions for him and am able to keep him safe and protect him. In a few years, however, he will be going to school and be experiencing life. And I know he will make mistakes and get hurt along the way. This scares me. I understand that as part of being a parent I need to equip him with the skills to make good moral decisions so he can navigate through life as safely as possible, but as a control freak this a bit hard to let go of. And he will also always be my little peanut who I want to protect from the big bad world. That's the sad part of getting older.
The exciting part is all the cool things he's learning. Emmett is a little copy cat. He tries to say everything Eric and I say. He does so with pretty good accuracy, but he doesn't have word retention at the moment. Right now he says: see it, dogs, books, blocks, truck, bottle, mama, and daddy with accuracy and frequency. He's so funny because he doesn't know what a dog is when he sees it, but he knows when he hears it because we have a pack of yippee dogs for neighbors and we hear them constantly. So when he hears them bark he starts chanting dog, dog, dog, but he has no idea when he sees one that it 's a dog. See it sounded like sh** for awhile. It's starting to get better. He is crawling at high speeds and has a few forehead bruises to show for it. He pulls up to his knees right now so I think he may be furniture cruising by Christmas, but we'll have to wait and see. He's headed into the mommy stage right now where he prefers me to anyone including Eric. Which makes me feel bad because after a day of work Eric just wants play with him and he cries when Eric takes him away from me. This too shall pass. At some point it will be the other way around. He mimics us when laugh. He is refusing to be spoon fed right now so we are trying to fill him up with healthy finger foods which is proving to be difficult because he seems to have a bit of a texture issue with a lot of stuff. He has 5 teeth right now. 3 on the bottom and the 2 eye teeth on top. He looks like a little vampire when he smiles. And he loves to smile which is great! O-man can I brag on my child any more? Probably, but I'll take a break.
Overall we are very fortunate to have Emmett. We love him a ton and appreciate all of our family and friends who have been apart of our lives this year supporting us as new parents. We love you too!
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