8 Month Tribute...

Stanley Mac

December 14th, 2008

8 Months old

My sweet baby Stanley. I love you so much and I just thought I’d take this moment to tell you so. You are such a wonderful baby. You are so fun to be around with your contagious smile (they have your 4 month picture up at GTMC and say that you always make them smile and that you’re their mascot and you make everyone else smile as well, especially Daddy and I), your excited curiosity (you get into everything now and are learning so much), and your good looks, of course (everyone comments on your sweet chin dimple and your bright blue eyes). I enjoy those things about you but those aren’t even the most important things I love about you. It is your heart that I love. I love your sweet spirit, your mild manner, and your soft heart. When someone displays a big show of emotion (crying, laughing, or shouting) you well up with emotion and cry out loud but are easily consoled. You are sensitive and I love that about you. Please remain sensitive throughout the years especially to the Holy Spirit as he guides your way. I also love that you are mine and that you need your mommy and daddy so much right now. You are SO loved.

What are you doing these days? You’re crawling all over the place but mostly using your perfected “army crawl” and occasionally doing the “real crawl” and the “Pyramid” or “triangle” stance. You also like to pull yourself up on things into a standing position. With all your moving around you have been getting hurt quite a bit. You fell out of the pyramid stance on the kitchen floor and landed right on your nose causing a painful first bloody nose. You slipped while holding yourself up on Daddy’s bedside table and bonked your head really hard making Mommy fear that you might have a concussion. The result was a really nasty “goose egg”/bruise and some vomiting but thankfully no trip to the ER. The very next day (yesterday) you were playing on the floor with Daddy and powercrawled right into the wall. It breaks my heart to see you in pain. Fortunately you don’t get hurt like this too often. You really are good at getting where you want to go, especially to cords and anything else we don’t want you to get your hands on. You are also very social and you love to be where the action is. Everyone loves being with you and the child care workers love having you with them. This social personality makes it hard when we put you in your room for naps which is often met with a protest. You say Dada and Daddy quite often and I really can’t wait until you start saying Mama or Mommy that much. You also like to be tickled and play peek-a-boo and it’s then that you show us some of your greatest laughs.

So here’s to the first 8 months of your sweet life and to all the discoveries and adventures ahead.

We love you!