Toot Toot

So here's the thing. Whenever I take Mister out places, everyone rants and raves about what a great baby he is, and we are so lucky and he's such a happy boy, etc. etc. Now, I am glad he's a content and happy boy, but where is MY credit?

Toot, toot-ing my own horn here - Isn't part of his personality based on how we've raised him? I know that some personality traits are inherited, but I happen to think that part of his happiness is because he has happy parents and that we are laid back. I think that babies can sense a parent's mood and adapts to that. I am not up tight about who holds him or if they do something different than we do, and I think in turn, Mister is pretty accepting. So where is my kudos? Where is, Wow Sarah, you've done a great job rearing him so far and he obviously has a great Mom and Dad.

I am a good Mom, if you don't count the time when he fell off the couch the other day. Ooops.

So, it's cute - to a point.

So Mister has started this new thing. He likes to "kiss" you. He will grab you by the face and lick you right on the face, mouth, hair, whatever comes in close proximity to his mouth. The first time, cute. However, now he is PINCHING my G-D face every time he does it. Who knew such little hands could hurt so much! AUGH!

I'm not sure what to think...

So here I am. I'm in one town, my baby is in another. My day care is closed this week and my Mom just happened to be off of work so she graciously offered to take my boy for today and tomorrow. Problem is, I don't know if I should be excited to have some alone time with the hubby, or if I should cry because I miss my boy!

Today was the first day that I've woken up without my little man. I missed his little smile and him laughing and cooing at me in the morning. I was tempted to turn on the lullaby CD last night so I could sleep! I know he's in good hands, but I just miss smooshing those little cheeks!!

Scratch that.

Yeah so the whole sun hat thing? Didn't work out so well. Mister didn't want to take a nap, so I couldn't make the hat. Oh well. Maybe another time.

Next Martha Stewart Over Here?

I happen to think I'm pretty crafty. And not just in the sly way, but in the way that I like to make things with my own two hands. I like to scrapbook, knit, cross-stitch...and this weekend, I am going to try to make my first little thing for Mister. A sunhat.

I saw a pattern online and thought, "Hey, that doesn't look too hard...I think I'll give it a try". So I bought material last night and I'm going to give it my best shot. I'll post pictures when I'm done with it so you can see how close I remsembled the pattern.

Marcus' Apology Video

So, I guess I'm not so great at keeping up to date on this thing. I promise I'll do better!

However, I did feel that I needed to share the following video. But here is some background:
Hubby, Me and Mister went to the Washington County Fair on Saturday with our friends "Glaze". We spent about 2 hours walking around with Glaze and Mister had a great time. We got Dippin' Dots, I won $5 at BINGO....good times. Anyway, we went to back to Glaze's house to meet up with another friend, B. We had only been there maybe 20 minutes when Mister started crying. And I don't mean just whimper because he's tired, but full on scream-till-you're-red-in-the-face-and-no-sound-is-coming-out kind of scream. I tried rocking him - no dice. Nursing - forget it. Burping - nada. So, we decided we had to go home. B was a little sad that we had to go home because it had been quite some time that we had seen her, so I decided that Mister needed to make an apology video to B. And this is what we came up with.

My favorite part is around :20 - to me, it totally sounds like he's saying "Hi!"