Hold My Hand.... and other Week 9 Musings...

Holding Hands....

It is incredible how good it feels to have this little hand reach out to us --- and then he wants to keep it there as he takes us to wherever it is he needs help, wants to wander, or, amazing of amazements, simply just to stand there with us holding our hands (my personal favorite; especially when it's followed with a leg hugging snuggle)...

Week 9 was yet another fun one filled with a lot of joy and first, like reaching out to hold our hands....I am eternally grateful for the years of support from family and friends -- as we worked incredibly hard to get to the point where I had a very flexible situation work wise.... While the last few years were insane, it is so worth it now... But, week 9 found me working not just naps and evenings, but also leaving the house for 1 full day to go into the city for some meetings, and he stayed home with Papa -- they had a fun day together. more on that in a minute. I missed them both, but I must admit, the greeting I received at the end of the day made up for it, and, honestly, fueled me with energy needed to keep up this silly balance called "work-life"/"mommy-worker" thing... god bless you all who work full time outside the home and have kids -- i have no clue where you find your energy from!
Meanwhile, some funny things on our little man in Week 9 --

• Learned to say "ga" for "ready, set, go"....
  
• In 2 days time, learned almost all the motions to "Itsy Bitsy Spider" - I did it one night at dinner, and the next morning, at story time, low and behold, they did that song. I was floored when he whipped out his fingers for "Itsy" and tried to put his hands on his head for "Sun"... by the end of that day, he was rocking side to side during sun, and had all but the "down came the rain"....
• Learning to stack blocks! (yahoo!)
• Trying to stack llegos (taking apart is so much easier!)
• Holding hands... needless to say, I can't get enough of this...
  
• LIKING SAND!! I have these little sensory boxes (come on, don't laugh. you had to know it was coming... no worries, tho, he hasn't had a full out craft table "my mommy is an OT" experience yet)... and he finally decided sand was cool....
• Checking in --- when he's doing something, if he thinks we are not paying attention, he'll be sure we are... be it yelling, laughing, stopping and staring at us, or coming over to us and standing there like "hey, are you watching or what?"

Here he is -- checking in and looking up at me --
Man is he cute or what?

I don't think I will EVER get tired of this sweet little face coming in to check in...
Ok, biased comment by mom...

• Laughing laughing laughing... he is laughing and smiling and likes to start games that will get us laughing -- like hiding behind my back, or running around the sofa to "hide" -- he has also discovered this week the "fun" of initiating rough house play -- if we lay on the floor, he'll dive all over us and giggle like mad..

His full day with Papa went well -- with the exception of his first injury -- a black eye... story goes it was something about the bathtub and too many bubbles, but who knows with my boys?? they could've been testing a new tube on the boat or playing baseball with ashton! LOL. seriously, tho. Feel terribly lucky that Jeff is such an involved dad and wanted to be with our little man while I worked -- it was good for them both to get some quality time without me around...
So, while we were short on photos for this week (camera battery issue), we did get it up and running for his "9 week home" photo....

Home 9 weeks "It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere" Photo....
and the little man of the hour is....
a "No Show"

perhaps it was his black eye that had him embarrassed and not happy w/ a photo??
more next week :)