Dear Evan-You are five months old today. Happy Birthday!!
We are on such a journey together. This month has zoomed by. You had your first plane ride to visit Grandma this month.
You are becoming so aware of everything. You really take things in. You have a serious face like the one above. Mr. Serious then will become the happiest little boy. The serious comes out when you are seeing things for the first time and trying to figure them out. You give me this face when I sing to you! I don't know if its my selection of a song or my voice!
You love trees. You get lost in them. Your eyes stare up at them and don't even blink. It is like you are trying to take every part of their outlines inside and figure it all out.
You do not like to face inward when carried. Oh no! You need to look out and see what the world is doing!
Yesterday was a hard day. I lifted you out of your stroller. You were sitting inside your car seat part of the stroller. I picked that up with you inside it and slipped. You were fine. I held on to you tightly and placed you down on our stoop. You just felt the thud that came when the seat hit the top step I sat you down on. My knee was throbbing but the rest of us was fine. I don't know if it was my reaction to my knee being messed up or the sound of the seat hitting that stoop but you screamed. Something scared you so much. I have never heard you scream like that before. I felt terrible. It had been such a good day before our spill. You took a nap overlooking the ocean at our bluff while I surfed the net trying to find a table for a client. Always multi-tasking....that's me.
You are so much better in your car seat and stroller. You have no trouble anymore in the stroller except for when you are hungry. You want out and you want food now. I am glad that time of hating the car seat is passing. It was rough on both of us!
Today you found your feet for the first time. This was a big deal to me. I have been waiting for you to find them. I have dressed you in bright colored, patterned socks in order to help you see them and want to reach out and touch. Today it happened. You were on your changing table and I reached over to grab your clothes to dress you for the day. I looked back to you and you were looking at me holding your left foot. I was thrilled! I think you were too!
We are going on walks twice a day now. Once in the morning and then again in the late afternoon. We meet all sorts of people on our walks. Today we met this German couple with their 8-month old daughter Audrey. We compared notes and they gave plenty of compliments to you about how cute you are. There was a thunderstorm approaching and we kept hearing thunder overhead so we all went our separate ways. Maybe we will run into them again someday.
I love getting to know you and I absolutely love being your Mommy.
XO-
M
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