Baby Book

Dear Greyson-

I love being a mama, and I have to admit that I'm actually pretty good at it. But there is one thing that I'm not so good at...the baby book. I love baby books, I really do, but I am awful at remembering to fill it out. Yours, I am embarrassed to admit, is completely empty. Not a single memory has been recorded in it. I know most of the important things, you sat up unassisted at 4 months on November 12 (I have a picture!), you took your first steps on April 7 at 8 1/2 months (I have a video) and walked across the room for the first time on April 22, you had your first solids (green beans) at 4 months on November 30. I could go on and on, actually, I probably should because one day I won't remember these things.

Hmmm, what else can I add? You got your helmet on January 26th, which is also when you started crawling! And you got your first tooth (both bottom teeth came in together) on April 8th. Your first trip to the emergency room was March 9. We took you because your fever was really high, it got all the way up to 105. You were diagnosed with pneumonia. Your first road trip was out to Iowa when you were only 3 weeks old.

There are things I've already forgotten, I don't know when you were able to wave, well I do, but I don't know an exact date. It was early May or late April. Or the date you started saying your first word, which is ball. That was just last week, but I don't know when we decided that you actually knew what it meant (you say 'bah'). I have no idea when you first smiled at us or laughed. I know you were smiling when we went out to Iowa and haven't really stopped since. For the longest time you made the cutest noise when you laughed, I have pictures of you and your first laughs from September, so it must have been around then that you started doing that. THe noise was like a deep breath in while making a noise in the back of your throat and holding it a long time. It was adorable.

Here are some of my favorite things about you:
1. Your silly laugh. You laugh at anything and everything. You walk around just laughing for no reason. And a lot of times, when you do it, you slap your belly. No matter what mood I'm in, your laugh gets me giggling.
2. When you are being silly, you often walk around and look up as high as you can, tilting your head waaaaaay back. It often knocks you over which makes you laugh, too.
3. You always look around to see who is looking at you before you do something funny.
4. You absolutely love Milo and Jinx. You go up to them and lay your head on them and say 'awwwww'.
5. Your smile is so big! And you also smile with your eyes.

I could go on and on and on.

Today, we went garage saling with Aunt Libby and Grandma Michelle. It was really hot and I eventually took your shirt off. You were miserable, but still had smiles for anyone that talked to you or looked at you! I got kind of offended today while we were out. Some lady at a garage sale said, 'oh poor guy' for no reason. I can only assume it was about your helmet. I don't normally get upset about that, I love it when people ask about it because I want people to know, I like educating people about plagio. What I don't like is when people assume the helmet is a bad thing. You are the happiest little bud and there is no reason why ANYONE should feel sorry for you.