24th of July

Hi B,

I had the best weekend with you! We went to the parade on Saturday and you loved it!! You watched everything that was in the parade and really loved the police cars and the marching bands. You clapped and waved at the people and just loved every second of it. You made friends with people sitting to the right of us when they gave you a capri sun. You even went and sat on the ladies lap for about 10 minutes. You also made friends with the people on the left because they kept spraying you with their spray bottle to keep you cool and you laughed and loved it. You are such a charmer.

Then we went and hung at at grandma and grandpa Maez's house. Then we went to Liberty park to watch fireworks. We sat across the street where they actually light them and hung out with Savannah, Nathan, Chase, Hailey, Daniel and some family friends. You were in such a great mood and did so good staying up late. I bought you a binky that flashes and that was your favorite thing of the whole day! You laid on me when the fireworks started and watched them intently as you started dozing off. Then there were some misfires and some knocked over and started flying straight at us! I grabbed you and ran as fast as I could as the fireworks were whizzing past my head. I couldn't think of anything but how to protect you. It was a huge story and 9 fireworks total flew into the crowd where we were sitting, but none of us got hurt, thankfully. By the time I found everyone, you were dozing off in my arms. All the other children were screaming and crying and you just went to sleep. It was quite funny.

You are at such a cute stage. You are saying new words every week and understand so much of what I say. I can tell you to go get your shoes and you will go find them. You said Chase this weekend and keep saying "off" over and over. You use it for up, down, on and off, but I can usually figure out what you mean. You are growing so fast and getting so smart. I love you so much and we are doing really great, the two of us. You are very entertaining and so much fun to be around. I am so blessed and thankful to be your mom! I love you!!

Love,

Mom

Love You!

Hi B,

I just dropped you off at the sitters. I am having surgery today, so I won't see you until Sunday night. 3 1/2 days. The longest I've been away from you. And I'm so nervous about these things. I just wanted to tell you that I love you so much! You are my world and the greatest thing that has ever happened to me! I love you more than you will ever know!!

Love,

Mom

Updates

Hi B,

It has been a while since I have written you. It has been a crazy month! It is summer and so nice outside and you absolutely LOVE being outside. You would live out there if you had a choice. This month you had your 15 month checkup. You are 30 1/4 inches tall - 25th percentile, your head circumference is in the 25th percentile and you weigh 19 pounds 12 ounces. About the same as you did at your 12 month appointment and you are now in the "less than 5 percentile" range. On your medical graph you are well below the bottom line, but you look healthy and your belly pokes out so I think you are doing just fine. You also got really sick for a week before your appointment and didn't eat much and lost some weight. You were sick this weekend too. Saturday you ha a fever of 104.6 degrees at one point. It scared me. I hate it when you get sick!

You are getting to be such a little man and I love watching your brain work and process things all the time. The other day you pulled your small booster chair all the way across the living room and put it by the wall so you could stand on it to try to reach our security system buttons, which you love to push. The fact that you realized you could stand on the chair to make you taller just astounds me! Such a smart boy!

You also do things now and you will remember it days later and do it again. Your brain is definitely growing and you are learning new things every day. I haven't stuck with the reading program at all lately. I am mad at myself but I feel like we don't have much time together as it is and I don't want to waste our time together, especially in summer doing it. Education is so important and I'm not setting a very good example and really want to get back into it. That will be our goal.

Well B, I love you. You are so amazing and are doing so great. You make me so happy and you make my life complete!

Love you tons.

Mom

Divorce

Dear B,

I wish you were old enough for me to talk to about everything that is going on. You seem to notice a change around the house and are probably picking up on my moods and behaviors. Your father and I have decided to get divorced. Everything is taken care of and completed. That doesn' tmean that either one of us love you any less. You are the best thing that happened to both of us and we both love you so much!

Right now we are still living in our house and you and I will be here until we can sell it. Then I hope to find a townhome for us to live in.

I am doing my best to be a good mom during this time. I have been super busy and it has been hard managing everything that is going on, but I want you to know that I love you so much and our lives will settle down soon. I try to spend eery minute I can with you and try to make you laugh often.

More than anything, I want you to know that you are loved and you always will me. By myself and by your dad. You are amazing and such a blessing to both of us!

Love you,

Mom

Teeth

Hi B,

You now have two teeth on the top that look like fangs, with no middle teeth, and one on the bottom in the middle! Keep those teeth coming so we can start feeding you more kinds of food! Looks like your other two top ones will be in soon!

Love Mom

Finally!

Dear B,

You FINALLY have a tooth! It is the upper right lateral incisor - simply, the second tooth over. Most babies get their front bottom teeth first, then their upper front teeth, but you didn't follow that order. I am so excited about your tooth though. Soon you will be able to eat all sorts of other foods! Your other incisor is also about to poke through. Maybe this explains the last 3 crappy nights of sleep. I hope so.

Love you so much!

Love,

Mom

On This Day

Dear B,

On this day, I am most thankful for you! You made me a mother and are my reason to celebrate today. I had no idea how much I was going to love you, or that it was even possible to love you so much. I am so proud to be your mom and so happy that you are in my life. we have quite the journey to take together and I wouldn't ask for anyone else to be there to take this journey with me.

You are my number one!

Love,

Mom