Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi B,

Today is your first Thanksgiving! I am so excited to share it with you! We usually go around to Thanksgiving dinner at All of your grandparent's houses and visit with all sides of our family, but this year they are all at the same time so we are going to take it easy and spend it with your Nana and Papa Fratto. They are having a big dinner at their house. We may go visit Grandma Maez and my aunts and cousins, but not sure yet.

This Thanksgiving I am so thankful. I am mostly thankful that I have had the opportunity this year to become a mom and to have you in my life. It is the best thing that has ever happened to me and I love being your mom! I hope to fill your life with happiness and teach you how to be thankful for everything we have.

I love you so much B!! Have a wonderful first Thanksgiving!!

Love,

Mom

P.S. You are still too little to eat most of the food, but I will try to give you as much food as I can, since that is such a great part of Thanksgiving. I will also let you try the Oreo Pie! MMMMM my favorite!

Catching Up

Dear B,

Hi baby. I have so much to catch up on. I haven't written to you for a while and you are getting so big! Here are some of the fun things you can do:

1. Say Mama and Dada. You technically said dada first but when you said it you didn't understand what dada was. I am thinking now you are starting to understand what both dada and mama mean. It is so cute when you say, "mama mama mama" and I grab you and you stop. So adorable!

2. You are crawling fairly well. You can crawl 4-8 "steps" before you fall and start army crawling.

3. You make all sorts of funny noises in your mouth! You growl, gurggle and pant like a dog.

4. YOu can stand your self up and try to do this on EVERYTHING!

5. I can now spike and mohawk your hair. It is so cute!

6. You can wave hi and bye to people, when you want. You can, but don't always do it.

7. We have started you on a reading program and you seem to like to watch it. You don't like to read the books or do the reading cards, but you do like the video.

I love you B! Stop growing up so fast! I am going to miss this time!

Happy Halloween

Dear B,

Hi son. You were so cute last night. We didn't go trick-or-treating because you are much too small to be eating candy. We dressed you up, though. You were cute. Then you answered the door with us and helped pass out candy. You were in a great mood and I think overall you had a great first Halloween. Here are some pictures. You made a cute monkey!










Love,

Mom

Sitting Up

Dear B,

You are getting so big! Over the last couple of days you have mastered sitting up. Now everytime I go to get you in your crib you are sitting up. Yesterday I went to check on you when you were napping and it looks as though you had sat up, then fallen over and fell asleep. You were holding onto your feet and your head was between them. Looked very uncomfortable, but very silly.



You have been doing great on our second round of crying it out. You usually don't cry for more than 15 minutes and many times you have went to sleep without crying at all. I wonder if maybe you weren't ready the first time we tried this because this time is going much better. You are such a champ.

I love you,

Mom

Sitting Up

Hi B,

Last night was a rough night for you. You got up 10 times in the 7 1/2 hours you were in bed and it took dad and me about an hour to even get you down. One time I put you down then took a break while you calmly laid in your crib. When I went in there to get you to try to get you to sleep again, you were sitting up. You just looked at me like nothing was out of the ordinary. It was so cute. You have been trying to sit up for a week or two now but can't quite figure out how to do it. You can get almost completely on your butt while leaning on one hand, but you can't figure out how to get that hand out without falling over. I love watching you think things through.

You still can't figure out how to crawl, but that doesn't stop you from getting around. You army crawl and pull yourself around with your arms. You move quickly and know how to go in and out of different rooms now. When I get ready for work in the mornings I put you in our room to play and within a few minutes you are in the bathroom. You are so cute!!

Love you,

Mom

Great Grandpa Mattsson

Dear B,

Yesterday was your Great Grandpa Mattsson's funeral. A very sad day. I am so sad that you will not grow to know him. He played a huge role in my life and taught me many of the values I have today. I give him and grandma Mattsson credit for helping me be the responsible, knowledgable person I am today. They were the kindest, most generous people I ever knew and probably will ever know. Great Grandpa gave you 1,000 just for being born and it was a great start for a savings account for you.

We last visited him about a week before he passed. You were in a great mood and played with him. He was wearing an oxygen mask and you kept trying to pull it off. You also played with his watch. He held you for a minute and I could see that he really loved you and was so proud that you were his first great-grandchild (and only that he lived to see). He was so proud to have you. Everytime we visited he told every nurse, fellow resident, other strangers he didn't even know, anyone and everyone to come and see you. He always made sure to tell them who you were and that you were his great grandson. He sure did love you.

You have lost 3 great grandparents in the last 13 months.

Really unfortunate that you won't get to know them. I will do my best to pass down all the knowlege they gave to me. I know I probably won't do as good of a job, but I will try.


Love you,

Mom

Bananas

Dear B,

You're not so fond of bananas.

Surprising.

Love,

Mom