Every day is Mother's Day :)

This past Sunday I celebrated my first official Mother's Day. I say official because I was visibly pregnant last year at this time and received many well wishes. And while I felt a bit like a mother then, it is nothing compared to the way I feel like a mother now.

This special day just so happened to also fall on Malachi's exact ten month birthday, yet another reason it was official! My day was a special one, pretty much like all of the special days I have had over the past ten months. Just typing this makes me shake my head-I cannot believe ten months have past by so quickly. I look at newborns and little babies and remember when Malachi was that little and it wasn't that long ago. Everyone always said how fast time flies when you've got children but I didn't think that would happen to me! I think about all of the things I wondered about while I was pregnant-what would his voice sound like? What color would his hair be? Would I be able to comfort him the sweet ways I've seen other moms comfort their children? Would he like to dance around with me?...and the million and one other thoughts new mothers have before their lives are forever changed for the better. I also think a lot about my life before Malachi and how things seemed to take on such huge importance-now, nothing is as important as my lil man.

I am so truly blessed to love my son and feel that love reciprocated. There is nothing better than walking into a room and having him look at me and instantly smile. It is enough to make you weak in the knees and joyful in the heart.

I also am truly blessed to feel that love from my mom. It's interesting to see how your life position switches when you become the mom and your mom becomes the grandma-or Gigi in our case. I see her with Malachi and the bond that is between those two is truly unbreakable. Gigi gets to be silly and crazy (things I've seen her do hundreds of times with daycare kids) but it is somehow different with Malachi. It's almost like a new awakening for her and I know she feels it too. I know I am the kind of mom I am because of her and the role she has played in my life. The truly unconditional love and support I have had for 30 years has shaped me into the woman and mother that I am today. And I thank you for that Mom. Thank you for being a great Mom and an even better Gigi!

So, to all of the mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers out there, new ones and ones who have been so for a bit longer- I hope you all had a fantastic day and feel as blessed as I do!

God is Good

Let me start off by saying recent events in my life have allowed me to once again lean on and give all of my life to God; something I should be doing on a regular basis. He has, as always, proven that His way is the best way. He has surrounded me with loving, supportive, prayerful people and I thank Him for that. I thank YOU for being the loving, supportive, prayerful people. If you are confused, sorry-if you're not-thank you again.
That being said, April has been a busy month for lil guy! We have participated in two 5Ks with the whole family and they have been interesting! The first one took place in Lawerence and was fun. Malachi decided that he didn't like his stroller, which he rides in almost daily, and proceeded to cry until I got him out of the stroller. This led to me carrying Malachi, all 20+ pounds of him, for 3.1 miles. Oh, the joys of motherhood :)! The picture with Gigi and Malachi shows how much he was enjoying said stroller!! Our second 5K took place this past weekend and went much better. We didn't have to travel too far and I only ended up carrying him the last little bit-partly due to crying and partly due to ducks playing by the lake. We wanted to see how close we could get to them before they flew away. Malachi was squealing with delight as we chased after them!
We were also able to help Gigi plant her flowers and by help I mean look adorable in his little car that has a seatbelt to keep him safe. He was cheering us on by his clapping and honking of the horn!
Another even that required clapping was Gramps's birthday. Malachi, Gigi and Gramps all piled into Gramps's favorite chair for his birthday portrait. Gramps bbqed and we had a great celebration!
Malachi has his nine month well baby check up tomorrow so we will see what his exact weight and height are-funny that it's his nine month check up when he will be ten months in 6 days-ahhh time is flying by....

Inspiration-finally!

Although my son is now nine months old and although I began this blogging expedition in November, I am just finally getting the hang of (and time) to post life's situations with my little guy. Not to mention the inspiration by my best friend Aly and her two blogs with a three month old and my sisterfriend Katie's blog in the adventures of living with my brother-need I say more?!
I plan to update on Sundays unless something spectacular happens that I feel compelled to write on the day of such event.
That being said, I won't bore you with the amazing milestones my son has reached thus far in his life, mostly because if you're reading this you've already heard the stories several times. I will tell you this-Malachi has three teeth, is crawling all over the place even up the stairs and I'm thinking he might be walking by month's end (I'm not putting pressure on him, I'm just thinking...)He has such a great personality right now and I love to hear him laugh.
Here are a few pics from recent activities that are just too cute.