Love Being a Mom

Lars will be nine months next week. Kind of hard to believe. Time has flown by so quickly, and yet i cannot imagine what life was like without his giggly smiley self. When he was only a few weeks old a friend asked it if was like Christmas morning every morning to find him in our lives. It was the perfect description for our bundle of joy. Now, nine months later, it is still like Christmas morning most every morning. (we do have the occasional nights when sleep decides not to visit our household) Every night when he is curling up in my arms to fall asleep or When he wakes up happy as a clam,(no matter how much sleep he had during the night) and we listen to him in the baby monitor playing and talking to himself, waiting for us to come get him, or during the day when he laughs out of the blue at nothing, my breath catches in my throat and i am amazed at what a wonderful blessing he is. It is hard to imagine having another one a perfect as Lars is. He doesn't whine when he wants my attention. He crawls close to me and flops on his tummy wiggles his feet in the air and open and closes his fist saying "I want you! I want you!" He gives a little "hey I'm right here" squawk and waits until i pick him up. In the mornings we bring him into our bed and play with him and lately he has started to roll over and give me kisses and then roll over and give Corey kisses. He will do this over and over again like a game. It is hilarious to watch because his mouth will be wide open forming a nice big OOH as he comes at you for a kiss. They are usually extremely slobbery and you must have a rag close by to dry your cheeks and chin off, but oh so worth it! He has taken to cuddling with his head on my shoulder in the cutest. He also loves books and loves to turn pages on books. This is great for church because i can keep him mostly still through most of sacrament meeting reading and turning pages. Lately I have noticed him to be very sensitive and caring. When Chase cries Lars will look over at him with the cutest expression of "what is the matter" and he usually crawls over to lay his head on chases chest or head (whichever one he reaches first) and tries to give kisses.
He loves people (although lately he has been a mama's boy, but if I'm around he loves playing with other people. He also loves little kids and watches them intently when they are around. On the bottom shelf of our entertainment center i have put his toys and some VHS videos (i didn't have any other place for them and i don't mind if he tears them down to play with, which he does) he found the video "Annie". he pulled her off the shelf and started talking to her and laughing like he was having a great time. it was hilarious. he does the same thing to the picture of the baby on the diaper box.
He loves to cook and i am convinced he is going to be my little soux chef. If I am in the kitchen he much come in to see what i am doing. he would rather play with my cooking utensils then his own toys. Most of the time when he comes in he wants to be picked up at some point to look (very intently) in the pots to see what i have made. i usually give him a giant spoon to hold so he doesn't grab for the hot pans and he reaches out with the big spoon and wiggles his hand as if he is going to stir what is in the pan.
He loves music and dancing and we often listen to his favorite CD "Dog Train" which is the most awesome CD we have for him (thank you Margaret). Corey and i love it just as much as Lars and frequently are found singing the songs from it.
All in all.............I love being a mom. even though what I accomplish each day doesn't seem to amount to much and the housework usually gets put on a back burner while we are playing and since Corey works evenings dinner never gets made anymore...........it is so worth it to be playing with Lars and enjoying his happy and joyful company.