WARNING: this post is kind of long, sorry I babble....
Now that I've been a mother for 6 months, I have so much I want to say I just don't know where to begin. First of all - it's been the most blessed, amazing experience of my life. It's more than I ever thought it could be and waiting for 3 years for it to happen has made it so much sweeter to me! Growing up, all I really ever wanted to be was a mom. Facing the possibility of not ever becoming a mom was the 2nd hardest thing I've ever had to endure (the first being Andon's diagnosis). I knew that adoption was always an option, however being matched with an infant isn't guaranteed. Even if we were only blessed with one biological child I really wanted to experience being pregnant and delivering a baby (as crazy as that sounds). Thankfully God's plan for our family was bigger than I ever expected and look how blessed we are! I guess God doesn't give you the desire to be something and not fulfill it somehow...like I said, all I ever wanted to be was a mom. I'm loving every minute I am blessed to be home raising our baby and I know how fortunate I am to be in this position.
Now onto the fun stuff....
Dane is sitting up really well and he's army crawling too. He can scoot his way pretty much anywhere he wants and that makes me entirely nervous about when he's full on crawling! He loves to eat and eats all his fruits and veggies without issue. He pretty much inhales it and we have to shovel it into his mouth very quickly or he gets frustrated with us. Much to my disappointment, he does say dadda and daddy although I don't think he really knows what he's saying! He's been sleeping through the night since he was about 11 weeks old, with an occasional rough night. He generally goes down between 7 & 8pm depending on how tired he is or when he woke from his last nap and usually sleeps until 7am. Sometimes he wakes at 6am, but he takes a bottle and goes back down until 7:30 or 8am. I know...I'm lucky! We've said numerous times that Dane is either going to make us crazy when he's in highschool or our next child will be a monster! There's no way we can be lucky enough to get 2 easy kiddos...is there?? I will gladly take it if it happens that way! Now, for your viewing pleasure I've put together a video of everything Dane is up to these days...
5 comments:
is it just me or do other people say that he looks alot like Andon? At first I thought he looked more like Cameron but now, I"m not so sure! He is precious!
Katie...you're not alone, we hear that he looks like Andon a lot!
Love it! He's a doll! And I too see Andon! Love the comments on motherhood too. God is good! And you very well may have two that sleep! :) If you do though, could you write a book or something?
I'm just lucky...believe me, it's nothing I've done!!
Such cute videos of Dane. He is growing up so fast! Thanks for putting in words exactly how I feel about motherhood. It is very hard to express how lucky we feel to be moms. :)
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