Easter morning

This morning is Easter. Before you were born the only thing Easter was good for was reminding me of a negative experience that I went through when l was 10.

Today I told your Papa that although that happened, since you've been with us Easter has taken on new meaning for me. It represents growth, renewal, life, resilience and newness. These past few days I've been pondering on this and aldo what it means to me to think about Jesus dying. He was an example of transcendance and showed us that what matters is not the body, but the spirit. Also, right before he died he said "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." What a guy. We can all be like him and know the Truth. We can all Rise. We can all shine in the Glory.

We didn't do an Easter egg hunt and you probably won't wear your Easter dress. Papa and I just want all of us to be together today and have a day in whixh we do nothing but enjoy eachother. I agreed but also thought we could be vocal about our feelings on this holiday. And so we talked about all that and then he made coffee and took you outside.

When we came back inside you seemed tired and I tried nursing you to sleep but instead you wanted to stand and practice your walking. You walked over to the closet and started pulling on Papa's shirts and bringing them down. Once you realized how fun that was you weren't thinking about "nightnight" anymore. Then you played Peek-a-boo with them! We laughed and your Papa heard us and came in and started tickling you. You finally got worn out enough to fall asleep. I love being your body pillow. And your Mama.

Monday

I left you with your Omie this morning. We had a rough night because you were pretty gassy and farty so I'm pretty sleepy and I know you are too but you've been fighting your nap.

When you woke up I told you your Omie was coming and you said "A-mi?"

Then earlier, when I got home, after I had been trying to put you down to sleep for a while and just kindof gave up and let you play alongside the bed, I asked you to kiss "Hoo-Hoo" (your owl). I said "Beso for Hoo-Hoo, Hallie" and you gave him a beso and hugged him tight. Then I said "Hallie give mama a kiss" and you did from far away. Then I said "Hallie dame un beso en el cachete"(Hallie give me a kiss on the cheek) and the most wonderful thing happened. You came down from the furniture you were sitting on, crawled over to me, and put your face on my face and kissed my cheek.

Then just now as I was sitting on the computer I looked over at you and you were looking through your books. You started to push and I knew you were going poopoo. When you were finished you crawled to me and climbed up the chair looked at me wide-eyed and said "POO POO". Wow. Thank you for letting me know, my baby.

I think I'm gonna put you down for a nap now and give you lots of besos on your cachete and maybe later we'll go buy you some crayons.

Chatty Baby

Before I forget, I need to point out that this morning when I got home, we walked Omie to her car and I blew her a kiss and SO DID YOU! It was so sweet and perfect as you are.

Let's go over the words you say in context shall we?

Uh oh!
Mama, mama, mama
Up (whispered sneakily to your Tia Joz in the backseat makes me laugh)
Choo-Choo (we've been LOVING running to catch the choo-choo)
Duht (Duck)
Buhd (bird)
Dahhdee (Doggie-- sound: Auf Auf!)
Mano (hand)
Bay-bee (BABY! This is one of your favorites right now)
Yayy! (and clapping)
Nuh-uh (imitated)
No, no, noo (not imitated, uh oh)
Choos, sahts
Maht (màs)
Weet (wait)
A-po (Apple)
Na-na (Banana)
Awah (Agua! Everything is agua!)

And I've caught you repeating please and thank you in your own unspellable way.

Animal sounds:
Moooh (What does a cow say?)
Tee-Tee (What does a bird say?)
Aaa-aa-oo-aa (What does a monkey say?)
Uuuurrrrhh!! (Hand motion!!) (What does an elephant say?)
Zzzzz (What does a busy bee say?)
Kaa-kaa (What does a duck say?)
Maaaa (What does a goat say?)
Ragghhh!! (What does a brown bear say?)
Hap-hap (What does a bunny say? Pl I'm not teaching you accurately here but wow is it cute)

Oh, and you SCREAM bloody murder if I so much as try to take you away from things you like or want to do like sit atop the counter while I'm getting ready in the morning. I think it is funny. For now..

I can see you slowly have more of an interest in walking but you are too fast of a crawler and you know what you're good at. No rush, little bean.

Here are some recent pictures of you, my sweet baby.