Starting to look back

   I can't believe it. It's almost been 1 year since we were blessed with our sweet baby boy! Adam asked me if it felt like it had been a year, if it felt like time had flown by. To be honest, it's hard to remember Harrison as that little 5 lb 15 oz snuggly bug. But, I feel like he's been in this current phase for a while. So I guess yes it feels like a year since he was a newborn but time hasn't flown too fast. (Thank god.)

  I should warn you that since we're less than 1 month from Harrison's first birthday, I will be reminiscing a lot. I feel for my facebook friends. I fully plan on clogging your news feed with every detail of this time last year. I've decided to celebrate Harrison's first year I would recount his birth story for him in a later post. We all have a birth story - some boring, some funny, some scary, some surprising. I want him to know what I felt. I want him to know what his day was like. I want him to feel the insane amount of love I felt when he was born. I have never felt love like that.

Love for my beautiful and tiny son with the dimple in his shoulder like his momma,

Love for my poor absent husband trying so hard to find an earlier flight and kicking himself for leaving,

Love for my parents for answering my 1:30am call, coming to get me, packing my bag and running red lights on the way to the hospital,

Love for my mom acting as a last minute coach trying to stay calm even though she had no experience with any thing other than a C-section,

Love for ALL of my co-workers that helped my sub who was called to duty 4 weeks early and they never once complained about anything - they told me to stop thinking about school,

Love for Adam's co-workers that called me literally right after Harrison was born to let me know Adam didn't need to worry about work - they had it all covered,

Love for all of our friends and family that sent flowers, balloons, and food, visited the three of us in the hospital, and offered to do anything we needed,

Love for all of my students that sent home cards begging me to come back because they just couldn't pass math without me,

And mostly love for everyone for their support, encouragement, advice, help and prayers.

  I know, we are very blessed to have such amazing family and friends. We're extremely lucky things worked out the way they did. I loved every email, text, facebook message, phone call and card. I cherished all of the messages, hugs and smiles. It all meant so much to me.

I've never felt love like that.

A teary-eyed momma full of love,
~Emily

Can you do this?

   When my brother was younger, he always sat in a "W" position. His knees would be bent forward, but his feet would be behind. His legs looked a "W" (or "M"). It drove my whole family nuts and it looked extremely painful! Little did we all know, it was just preparing him to be a baseball catcher through college. I mean, not all of us could crouch like that for 10-15 years. Anyway, guess who else has started to sit like that? I guess it's time to get out the glove, bat and ball. We need to start our own spring training!!

Really. Who can't do this?

   But don't worry, we plan on being at least a two sport baby. Next up track and field! I think Harrison would make an excellent hurdler, don't you? This is how he sits after he's done crawling around. 

How else do you get out of your crawling position?

I would hate to see these hips at the age of 90!

~Emily

On the move - watch out!

   Yes, we are finally in the world of a mobile baby! It only took 10 months, 2 weeks and 1 day. But, once again, who's rushing?! It's kind of a funny story. For a week or two, Harrison was getting up on all fours, but he was just rocking and plopping. We went to Ohio over President's Day weekend and sure enough, Sunday I set him down on the floor, he saw a toy he wanted, and off he went. It was a wobbly first crawl, but it was crawling all the same. It took me by surprise, neither Adam or I were really expecting it yet. When we got home that Monday, not only was he crawling around, Harrison was all the sudden super interested in sitting up on his knees and trying to attempt to pull up. Really? I thought we just reached one milestone at a time. Did I mention his 6th tooth just came in too? Hopefully we're in a resting phase where we get a rest from a cranky teething baby!

   Here's a slightly more perfected crawling video. (This is the second one we took. The first one? Um... Harrison kinda toppled over into a toy... Yeah not the best one for all to see.) Oh and yes, that weird seated position he gets into is how he gets out of his crawling stance. It looks so uncomfortable. 

~Emily