Snow Day!

We got a couple inches of snow in Atlanta yesterday.  It's your first snow!  We didn't have to go to work today.  Atlanta traffic was really bad yesterday with thousands of people stuck in their cars on the interstates all night long.  Some schools kept children overnight.  Sam, we are very fortunate that we got home when we did!

Our weekend!

Back to work

Last week I started back to work.  I came down with a cold the Friday before, so last week I was just kind of blaah.  Today I finally feel back to normal.  Tonight I was able to process all these changes that have happened.  I am no longer with Sam all day and my life will soon be consumed with the stress of working at Anna Griffin, Inc.  Tonight when I was sitting there rocking Sam to sleep, I set a goal to find a way to get to be with him more.  I would much rather work hard at something I am good at and something that God meant for me to be....a mom.  I love it more than anything and I really think I'm good at it.  I can tell he knows how much I love him and I want to spend my days with him and not sitting behind a desk stressing about how to sell a $5 dollar product for $25.00.

When I was rocking him to sleep tonight, in the blue lights of the turtle ocean waves coloring the room, Sam at times appeared to me like a 2 year old boy.  Oh my goodness it was the sweetest thing.  He's so precious.  Right before it was time for him to sleep, we were in our bedroom and I was talking to him.  He was cooing back and really looked like he was talking to me back...it was the cutest thing I've ever seen or experienced.  I asked God to please play that tape back to me in heaven.  Sometimes I say, "Dad, I know you are seeing this too".

I started to write a song tonight called I Love You.  Can't wait to work on it more!

God, thank you for making our dreams come true.

Your mommy

Laugh

Just over the past couple weeks you have really started to smile and almost really laugh now. It's adorable!

Left hand

Sam's been holding his bottle with his left hand for the past several feedings

Your 10 week old day

I think today is the coldest day in history here in Atlanta. It's about 19°.  We stayed inside all day and played. You play in your crib and look at the mobile, you play on your activity mat, we play on the bed and then I rock you to sleep. Love you!

Shots 2 months

Sam you did so good with your two-month-old shots yesterday!  I got advised to not look at your face while you were getting the injections so I whispered in your ear while they were doing that. You cried really hard but you stopped and you even giggled and tried to talk to me when I was putting on your clothes afterwards. They commented that you are such a cute baby.  The doctor that examined you  yesterday said that you're in the 95th percentile for height. You may be a tall man!  You're growing perfectly and you have beautiful skin and there are no problems from what they can tell!   The doctor even commented that you were following her with your eyes very well which is not very common for a baby your age. So you're our baby Einstein also. When we got home I gave you some children's Tylenol and you stayed up and played for couple of hours. You didn't seem to be affected by getting the shots. Your next visit will be at your four-month checkup and you will have to get more shots then. Poor thing!  Well we love you so much and I'm going to go now so I can play with you :)

Clean closet

Just you and I

For 2 weeks it's just going to be me taking care of you.  Daddy has to work out of town for 3 trade shows back to back.  I dropped him off in Madison today so he could ride with Larry.  We 3 ate at a restaurant for lunch.  It's not the most fun taking you out to a restaurant.  You don't really love your car seat that we carry you in, so one of us has to eat fast (daddy), so he can hold you while I finish eating.

I just wanted to tell you tonight how much I love you.  I love that you are getting so smart and doing things and getting a cute personality.  You are very interested in me when I talk to you and you try to talk back.  This week you have really started to smile more.  It's so wonderful when you smile.  Daddy says it melts his heart.   On the ride home this afternoon, you were crying a LOT.  I knew you had a #2 in your diaper, so I pulled over in a K mart parking lot and changed your diaper.  When I stopped the car and got in the back seat with you, that was the loudest and worst cry I've heard you cry yet.  Once you realized I was holding you, you were comforted.  I wanted to cry because you were so sad.

This coming Monday you get your shots.   That will be hard to see, so I will just whisper in your ear and comfort you that way.

I just want you to know that I love you more and more every day.  I go back to work in 2 weeks.  I can take you with me, as there is a day care there.  That's really nice I get to do that.  I wish that I didn't have to go back full time, but for now that is what we have to do as a family.  I would like to be with you everyday while you are learning new things and be a part of that.  Grandmere had a good point the other day when I spoke with her that most families this day in time have 2 working parents.  That's just the way it is.  I was telling her I was kind of sad about going back to work.  I wasn't going to say anything, but I started crying when she asked when I go back.

You are such a good baby for us.  You have been sleeping in your crib for about 2 weeks at night.  During the day, I still put you in the swing as you seem to sleep the longest there for your day time naps.

I enjoy taking you for a walk around the lake, talking to you on the bed, reading to you, giving you a bath and smelling your hair (it smells like my dad's hair!)
Daddy asked me last night if I enjoy having a son, and I said,  "oh yeah!"  He said, "I thought you would."  Son, you are so precious to me.  I feel like the luckiest lady in the world to get to spend time with you and get to raise you with your daddy.

Love you!

Mommy

Sam jan 3

Prediction?

Happy New Years Day!!