EDD December 6th

Listless snowflakes I've been enjoying the past few days.

Dear Stefan,
For many months I looked forward to this day. It now holds no special meaning, except as a shadow of the day I expected you. It's Santa's birthday, you could have shared it with him...you also chose to not share your birthday with my dad on the 10th, or my friend Jeanne on the 12th, though they were hoping. I bet you'll appreciate having it be your own day, though sharing Santa's birthday would have been the coolest!

Expected Due Dates are kind of evil...it gets everyone's hopes up, and makes the mommy's really cranky when they are passed. The kitties were getting tired of being surrogate babies...

"Don't even think about it!"

"Zzzzzzzz...."

These two weren't tortured by being dressed up in baby clothes. Though they were held a lot more before you came along.  Now they are a welcome armful, since they weight half as much as you and are much less demanding.

So you ring in you EDD with the corner of a new tooth. I'm so happy your in a better humor today. You were the yippiyuck. Today, smiles and giggles as we prepare for Monday night football...which means resting up now, since we have to get up early tomorrow. Maybe we'll play with all the birthday and Christmas toys we opened early:).

These days you're a crawling machine, you've started venturing on two feet holding on to only walls or with one hand. You're a pro in the Jonny Jump-up, and the cats are constantly on the run, or protecting their food dishes. You're still amazed by your hands, love peek-a-boo, light/fan strings, and chimes. You've only had one run in with the Christmas tree. You're sleeping well on your own.

Most exciting, last week you had the best Kindermusik class ever! I had to actually find you and bring you back to the circle. You were crawling everywhere, head butting other babies, and making a lot of new friends. You crawled through the scarf tunnel along with the other babies and were content to let Mom teach while you had fun on your own. After class, you chilled right out side the room, though you could hear class, I heard your attention was on watching the older children play. You don't know how wonderful Mom thinks that all is! I'm so proud of you, Monster!

I can't think of anything else to catch you up on right now and I had better hop on lunch before you wake. We'll catch up more later:).
Love,
Mommy