“I’m tired Mama”

“Time for a Sunday nap Freddy”

Don’t you love Sunday naps?

p.s. Thank you cousin Lindsay for the CUTE CUTE robe!

Take a look how much Freddy loves his Brown Bear book.  He’s the cutest.

Freddy has had the BEST time visiting with his Yea Yea. They have played and played and snuggled and napped and watch sports and done everything that grandsons and grandfathers do. They really have bonded quite well. We loved having Yea Yea here and miss him very much already. Here is just a little glimpse of the Yea Yea – Freddy love

Freddy, you are two months (and a few days) old.  I can’t believe how much you have grown.  You’re still just a few weeks old but I find myself saying, “Remember when he was just a little baby?” and that is because you are such a big baby now!  You have the CUTEST chubby cheeks I have ever seen.  You have a double chin and wide eyes.  You love to see what is going on around you.  In fact, just the other day I was in charge of a big stake party and I was running around at the church for hours and you were perfect the entire time.  You were perfectly intent to just sit in my sling and be carried around everywhere I went just as long as you were facing outward and could see everything that was going on.  Many people commented on how lucky I am to have such a great baby.  I totally agree.  You are such a great baby and I love you very much.  Sometimes my eyes fill up with tears because I am so happy to have you in my life.  

I love the times when you are so happy you can hardly keep from smiling.  You love to lay on your back and hang out and just look around the room.  You just turn your head this way and that and just smile.  You LOVE to read books.  Your favorite book right now is “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” I’m not sure what it is about that book but you love it.  Whenever you get a little restless I just pick up that book and start reading, “Brown bear brown bear…What do you see?  I see a RED BIRD looking at me…..Red bird red bird…” and you immediately can’t get the grin off your face.  I usually read it three times before we switch to another book.  Other books you like are “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” and “Goodnight Moon”.  You still love to sing songs but when your not feeling the greatest and/or are tired you get pretty calm when I sing you jazzy songs like “Misty” or “Summertime”.  

Another thing you love is your bath time.  You love baths (just like your Mama).  I put you in your warm bath the same time I have the shower running on me and you love the soothing noise of the water running and the warm steam that fills the bathroom.  You get so relaxed that sometimes you even fall asleep right there in the bath while I’m scrubbing your toes and drenching you in soap.  You are so cute Freddy!!!!

You also have a really great new friend.  His name is Yea Yea (Grandfather in Chinese).  He is visiting you for the first time and he walks you around all over.  He takes you out on the deck and tells you all about the trees and the birds and the neighbors and pretty much anything.  He loves to have you around.  He loves to play with you and you love that.  Some of your favorite games with your Yea Yea are “Hammer Head” and “Motorcycle racing”.

(Yea Yea being really silly….)

You’re starting to sleep through the night now which is pretty nice, but Daddy misses you.  You guys have had “man-time” during the night-time feedings since you were just a few weeks old and your daddy has really enjoyed that time with you.  Now that you sleep all the way until 6 or 7 in the morning daddy still gets up with you and does your first feeding of the day.  He loves you so much and he loves to have one on one time with you because your just too cute and so much fun!

This past month has been a little hard for you….the other night daddy dropped a package of wipes on your head…you cried.  I tried to get something off of your face and you moved your head with out warning and my thumb nail went right into your eye!  I thought I might have blinded you!  You screamed!  I’m so sorry Freddy….I think I cried a little too.  Nana almost squished your leg when she was putting your toys on your chair and then….yesterday your Yea Yea was playing with you and you hit your head on the ceiling (I was upstairs so I don’t know what game you were playing) YOU SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER.  I hurried downstairs and it took me a while to get you to stop crying.  Your Yea Yea felt so bad about that and I worried a little too, but you were just fine…maybe just a little traumatized.  Speaking of trauma.  The Pens are in the play offs right now so of course we are watching all the games and it seems that just as you are calm and falling asleep the Pens score and Daddy and Yea Yea and even sometimes your Nana SCREAM in celebration and it scares you so bad I think you may cry harder from that than when you hurt your head with Yea Yea.  Sorry Freddy….are we the worst family ever?  We love you so much…WE’RE SORRY!

Yesterday was mother’s day and it was wonderful to be a mother on mother’s day.  Daddy made Swedish Pancakes and you were the best baby all day.  Freddy you truly are the best baby.  You are amazing during church…you never even peep the entire time.  You are very patient and well mannered.  You love the music during church and you love to look at all the other people.  You even started flirting with the Eldridge’s baby girl yesterday.  You kept looking at her and giving her a BIG grin and then you’d turn your face away….look back at her GRIN….and then turn your face.  You’re a little young time to flirting like that Fred.  You also farted/pooped so loud during relief society (twice) that you totally disrupted the lesson.  It was pretty funny Fred.  

I can’t tell you how much I love you kid.  You are truly the light of my life.  I am so proud of you for being so good during all these crazy things that I have decided to do.  Anytime we need to serve others and your mama is a crazy lady you are very patient and just go with the flow.  I think you have a serving heart even at only two months old.  You are peaceful and sweet and loving.  You still love to snuggle your mama and I am glad about that because I love to snuggle you.  I call you my “snuggle monster boy”.  You love to snuggle your face on things.  You will nuzzle your nose into my chest or your blanket or pretty much anything.  I love that.

What else…You pooped the other day through your diaper, onesie, pants….ALL THE WAY UP YOUR BACK TO YOUR HAIR!

(you’ve been doing this a lot lately)

You have laughed twice so far that I have heard…but it wasn’t at me or anyone else…you were sleeping both times and one of those times you were even still trying to eat in your sleep.  You are one talented baby!  You were eating and laughing in your sleep.  I think that pretty much describes you – you are a happy, fun loving chunker baby!  I LOVE YOU FREDDY!  I don’t know what I would do with out you kid.

Here we are playing on your two month’s old day…see how cute you are???

My mother is….

forgiving

kind

patient

loving

compassionate

understanding

faithful

selfless

generous

wise

intelligent

humble

fun

hard working

talented

diligent

and the list could go on.

Mom, I hope you had a great mothers day.  I am so grateful for you!  I realize now as a mother how much you taught me and how much of that I am passing on to my son.  I love you very much.  Thank you for loving me, forgiving me and being patient with me.  You are the perfect mother for me.  I am so glad God sent me to you.  Thank you for everything! Have a great day!

So I have been feeling really great about myself lately.  I have been fitting a lot better into my ‘normal’ clothes and my husband even said to me the other day that he’s noticed that I get skinnier everyday.  ”Whoo hoo!”, “You GO mama!”, “YAH” are some of the things that have been going through my mind….

Then today happened.

I went to Ikea to pick up some swedish meatballs for a big stake party and at the check out counter the old lady asked me, “Ven EES your due det?” (When is your due date?)  YEAH….she did!  I looked up from my wallet surprise and said, “what?”  She seemed confused and so trying not to laugh and thinking it might somehow defend my appearance I replied, “I just had a baby.”  She didn’t seem to understand that she had done something VERY wrong…and just kept chatting about how everyone is having girls and it’s spring and bla bla bla, but her co-worker (standing behind her listening to everything) was completely aware of the “no no” she had just committed and was trying to pretend she had no idea what was going on.  I walked out of the store trying not to laugh.  I kept thinking how much I wished my sister was with me because only she would REALLY appreciate this.  She is probably the only person in the world who would keep me laughing over such a thing.  But Kerstin…you were not with me on the 20 minute drive home….and yes I did cry a little bit…but I laughed a lot.  Thought you would enjoy this and I wish you could’ve been there!

Auntie Keri called today to ask if Freddy was alive, I told her he was but she said she wanted proof.  Here’s your proof Kerst.

Freddy snuggles his Yea Yea for the first time (Photo taken approximately 9:46 pm May 1)

Proud Yea Yea (visiting from China….Yea Yea is Mandarin for Grandfather)

The two love to take naps (AREN”T THEY CUTE TOGETHER!?)

Freddy and his friends.  Moxy is the “ugly doll” (gift from Auntie Asher) in front and Freddy the Firefly (gift from Mammaw) is on the other side.  Freddy loves them both dearly.

He is alive Kerstin….don’t worry.

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