The Perfect Day

As I sit here, awkwardly holding Lulu (when she has reflux, she arches back a lot... so I am holding her while her head is arched back & her body is upright and straight... see? awkward) - I am pondering my day and how absolutely awesome it was!!!

Firstly, I was awoken by a handsome lad, briiight & early.  Since it was soooo early, I grabbed all 40 pounds of cuteness & we snuggled in bed.  I noticed he was looking at the top of the curtain.  Still.  Pondering life's great wonders. "Oh Mr. Sun Sun, Bright & shiny sun" he begins to sing.  Turns to me and says 'Sun awake now?" - See?? Life's great wonders ;-)

Well since it was so early, I decided to dress the little munchkins and head to the mall.  They have a team that practices hockey in the Mall on their Ice Rink and we want to create a passion for Hockey in Cy - so we are starting young! I head to Panera first, pick up some breakfast sandwiches and decaf tea (Still trying to keep all sugar and caffeine out of my diet... minus a few slips here and there) and we sit by the rink, watching the guys practice hockey. 



Yes, he was VERY excited!!

Then we headed off to church - we have a great marriage series going on right now and my sweet husband took his lunch WAY early (6 hours early) and came to church with me so we could be there together and learn together.  So awesome!!!

Cy took a wonderful nap, we ran to Target and got a frozen pizza for dinner because mama forgot to grocery shop on Friday (oops) & we sat at home.  Relaxing.  Hugging.  Watching Veggie Tales.  Playing with Baby Sisa.  Unloading salt on the pizza (cy! ... no I wasn't happy at that moment ha ... wait till daddy eats that piece and no, I didn't tell him - thought it would be more fun this way, ha!).  Building Blocks.  Waiting for daddy to come home.

At bed time, we read "Goodnight Moon" and my genius boy almost read the entire book BY HIMSELF! No kidding.  Ash and I just sat there and kept kissing on him - I am soooo proud of him! He then made sure we all prayed to Jesus & sang "Jesus Loves me".  Then it was off to lala-land for the Prince who has given my life soooo much meaning.  So much love.  So much pride.  So much.... everything.


Dear Cyrus

It is 4 am in the morning. Your sister is keeping me wide awake (I know, crazy, and she's not even born yet! Sheesh!)
So I thought I'd write you a little note :-) I've never done one of these and since I have a few free minutes - now is a perfect time.

You are now 20 months old - getting so old! In 11 days, you will be 21 months old and only 3 months until your 2nd birthday. Are you kidding me?! Time is going by way to fast! I am loving this stage you are in! Too funny! You are hilarious and always the center of attention. Your personality cracks everyone up - not many have seen a 20 month old with as much personality as you have. I love it!!!

We took you to the doc the other day, you were 34 1/2 inches tall, and 32 pounds (having lost a couple pounds because of illness) - my big boy! Most think it's awesome to be so big and tall - but it has it's down points too. You are stronger than you think, so you hurt your friends when you don't mean to. When you run into them, if affect them more than it does you. This makes me so sad because I know for the rest of your toddler years, I'm gonna have to constantly tell you to "be careful" or "be gentle". Of course this will be great when you start sports and you can be on a basketball team and football team ;-)

You are my little genius! Tonight we were eating M&M's and you looked down, pointed out "yellow", "orange" (two words I already knew you knew) and then "blue" - oh, I almost cried. So smart! Who taught you blue?! And here I thought you weren't listening allllll those times I said "blue" ;-) I'm so excited to see how much more you learn and grow in the next few months.

You are going to be a big brother soon. Mommy is super excited about this, but also very scared. I have enjoyed soooooo much being able to spoil you and love on you and our one-on-one times. It's going to be hard to not give you my undivided attention, but I know in the long run, you are going to grow up with a sweet sister and y'all will be the best of pals! You are going to be a great big brother - I'm sure you will toughen her right up! ;-)

I love you so much and daily have to stop myself from eating you up! ;-) You are the cutest little boy that I've ever seen (of course I may be biased about that). While you are stubborn - keep that trait! It will get you far in life, be stubborn - never settle for less, never give up, always fight for what is right & for those you love! You are also very loving and often give random hugs to your friends (you also love the Barney "I love you" song and will proceed to go around the room and hug everyone during that song) - keep it up! Be loving, be kind, be generous, be giving. Sacrifice for those around you, give to the less fortunate, and appreciate all that you have.

My heart is full of happiness - because of you. I love you to pieces and so much more Cyrus.