4 months?!
// December 21st, 2009 // No Comments » // blog
There was this one time…when we created a blog and I actually sat down and wrote…hmm…I think I need to bring that time back!
Life has happened. Teaching is a time-consuming career, especially when you strive to be a really good teacher. Teaching when you have a baby…pretty much means not much time for many things. So here I am writing on my first day off!! The past several weeks have flown by. I was just telling someone the other day that I still haven’t fully gotten into the swing of being back at school and suddenly we’re on a three-week break (I LOVE our balanced calendar!!)…when will I actually get back into the swing of teaching?? Third quarter perhaps? I didn’t even write a blog when Gavin turned 3 months. But, I’ve decided that’s okay. I will try to better record and reflect on life during this time off. For now, let’s talk about the life of Gavin for the last two months!
It’s so fun to watch babies grow and learn, I’m sure I’ll keep saying that over and over and over as time goes on, but it’s so true! He most definitely interacts with those around him. Two of the best feelings ever are: (1) going in to get him up in the morning…we have an abnormal child in that he will happily lie in his crib, sometimes without making a peep, until we come in to get him up. There are days we go in to see if he’s awake and he’s in there wide awake looking around. On these days, he’ll turn as we open the door and walk in and give us the biggest grin ever. It is definitely a great way to start the day! (2) When I get home from school, he greets me almost daily. I open the front door, announce my arrival, he turns his head and generally gives me a huge, gummy grin! Sometimes he’ll then start talking to me, too. He definitely knows his Mommy…and that is a wonderful feeling. Pretty much indescribable.
He is playing with a few small toys now. He can pick them up if they aren’t too far away, and once he picks them up they pretty much are destined for his mouth. We’re pretty convinced he’s starting to teethe with the excessive amount of drool pouring from his mouth, the constant chewing on toys, burp cloths, and his own hands/fingers/thumbs. The past couple of nights he’s been more irritable than normal and more difficult to get to sleep, with perhaps a slight fever. I don’t think I’m ready for teeth.
I’m excited for Gavin’s first Christmas, mostly so he gets to spend time with people he rarely gets to see. It’s been fun trying to decide what special family traditions we want to start. We bought him his first stocking, and decided to not go matchy-matchy with our stockings, but to use ours from when we were little. We are working on deciding whether we’ll be a house Santa delivers too…though we don’t have to worry about that for another two Christmases, probably. The Christmas season is so fun, and I want him to experience it in that way…without losing sight of why it’s such a huge celebration. I am determined that we will be a family that reflects on why we celebrate. I love the celebrating part, the parties, the yummy food, the gifts, the lights and colors and sparkles…it’s all wonderful…and all to celebrate a tiny baby who humbly came to save the world. Hopefully we do a good job of teaching this to our tiny baby who came and changed our lives!
