Tooth Number Two

Dear Sebastian,

After a very rough night for both of us, tooth number two is out! Bottom front right, right next to your first one. You are all smiles this morning, so I am hoping that I can get some pictures to send to Daddy and Ohio. 

You're getting so big! 

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

Star Wars

Dear Parker,

Guess who watched Star Wars for the first time today? I was worried that there would be parts that scared you, but you are just in love. You have begged me for a Darth Vader costume, and in the same breath informed me that your next little brother needs to be named Darth Vader.

I am pretty sure that we won't be doing that, but I also see a lot of Star Wars in our future, which is fine with me. I like it too. 

Welcome to The Force, son.

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

More? Already?

Dear Parker,

Every day it is something new. And most days it is something that makes me smile. Today, I heard you talking in the play room while I made lunch. Thinking you were talking to me, I called "What did you say, honey?"

"I'm not talking to you, Mommy. I'm just talking to God."

"Oh. OK." Smiling to myself, and thinking I'd probably get a very sweet response to share, I asked "What are you talking to God about?"

"I'm just asking Him if we can have another baby."

Oh boy. This is what happens when your children love each other more than life...they want more! I want you to remember this one day when you are asking me why in the world I cursed you with so many younger brothers. (And sisters maybe.)

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

Sexy?

Dear Parker, 

Sometimes the conversations I have with you are just too much. I would hate to forget any of them, so I post them here, both so that I will remember them and so that you can read them one day and laugh. (Also, you can say to yourself "My kids are normal after all!")

Parker: "Mommy, what does 'sexy' mean?"

Mommy, frantically trying to come up with a three year old appropriate answer: "It means that someone is pretty or handsome to themselves or other people."

Parker: "Oh...So I am sexy and I know it!"

Do you know how alarming it is when your three year old says that? Alarming and hilarious, but the hilarious didn't come until later. That is why we listen to Country music when you are in the car with Mommy. 

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

One Day You'll Need This

Dear Parker & Sebastian,

One day, years from now, you will both be standing in front of me trying to yell over the other one as you attempt to tell me what they did to you first. I will know that, deep down, you adore and love one another, but you might not believe me when I tell you. So, I will show you this and you will know it was true once upon a time. You once adored each other.

Earlier today Parker very proudly announced to me: "Sebastian is SO awesome! Thank you for giving him to me, Mommy." 

Every single day you both say or do something that just leaves me in awe. I don't know what I did to deserve the amazing men in my life, but I would do it again 1,000 times over!

 Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

First Tooth!

Dear Sebastian,

Today you are nine months old. Happy "birthday"! I can't even begin to imagine that you are nine months old today. It feels like just yesterday I was holding a brand new little boy in my arms. I am sure you will get sick of me saying that, but it really is true. In the blink of an eye, you watch your children jump from an infant to a toddler to a child. You'll be your big brother's age before you know it!

Further adding to the impression of your rapid growth is the fact that you sprouted your first tooth today. Your bottom left front tooth has now made it's break into the world! You aren't cooperating for pictures, but I'll get one one of these days so that Daddy and everyone back in Ohio can see it.

Only three months until you turn one. Time to start birthday planning!

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

Lunch

Dear Parker,

You are so my son!

As I was cooling down after my workout today I heard something very large being dragged down the hall. Peering around the corner, I find that you have dragged one of your toy tubs into the kitchen, suspiciously close to the pantry. 

Doing my duty as a Mommy, I asked what you were trying to get, and in the sweetest, sugar-won't-melt-in-his-mouth voice you replied "I was just getting you lunch." with such a smile and bat of your eyelashes that you almost could convince me. You know, if I didn't know you were mine. :0)

Until next time, be good (if you can), be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy

Get His Snot!

Dear Parker,

You crack me up on a daily basis. Today was no exception.

We were at the park for a play date today, and while on the swings we saw another little boy, maybe a year older than you, who had a runny nose. You pointed at him and urgently told me "Mommy, he has snot! Get it!"

You have been having some allergy problems, so I have been wiping up a lot of snot lately, but I patiently told you that it wasn't my job to get his snot. You looked at me right in the eye and very firmly said "Yes it is, Mommy. Your job is getting snot." As I have said, I have been wiping up a lot of snot lately between you and your brother, but it made me laugh to think you have regulated my job as a stay at home mother to wiping up snot. 

I have since explained to you that my job is to wipe up you and Sebastian's snot, not anyone else's, but you still made me smile. Thank you for that, son.

Until next time, be good, be happy, and know that I love you.

Love,

Mommy