Dear Logan,
On today, your 7 month birthday, I have to wonder at all of your accomplishments this past month. You seem to just have to grow up so quickly and make me cry all the time at how much you have grown. I don’t just mean in height, which is quiet a bit, but I mean in all of your accomplishments.
This month you decided to start crawling. First you did it in just a circle on your tummy. Within a week you figured out just how to crawl forward doing the ‘army crawl’ (crawling with your tummy on the floor). About 10 days later, you were up and crawling on your hands and knees. At first you kept switching back and forth between the two styles. You’d use your hands and knees if you didn’t need to go as fast, but when those kitties came around and you decided it was time to put the chase on them it was all army for you! That didn’t last long though as you perfected your crawl. Now I hardly ever see you on your tummy!
Once you learned these things you decided to just keep going…now you’re trying to pull yourself up on things too!
Along with crawling you learned how to sit all on your own. You would sit by yourself before, but you couldn’t get there on your own though. Now it’s a different story.
I love when I come to pick you up from Grandma’s house and you look at me with big smiles, push her away and put your arms out to me and wave ‘Hi’ to me. You warm my heart every time this happens. I miss you so much when I’m away at work.
Near the middle of this month you did something else…you cut your first tooth! It was wonderful! I didn’t have any indication of you teething except for two days prior to your tooth coming through you were just a little bit cranky and hard to put to sleep. Then suddenly you had a tooth! Less then a week later you had ANOTHER tooth. Your two bottom teeth are in now! I had been dreading this milestone of your life since the moment I decided to nurse you instead of bottle feed you. I was so afraid that you would bite and cause me so much pain. I must say it was for nothing, so far. You’ve only bitten me once so far, and that’s when we were both asleep, so I know that you didn’t try.
This month was also the first month that you nearly gave Mommy a heart attack (for the first time). You crawled off of mommy and Daddy’s bed (as I was bending to get pick you up I might add). Luckily we were in the middle of a move (from the Apartment in Maplewood to the House in Saint Paul) and the bed was on the floor and not up high on the bed frame. Your bump wasn’t too bad, but you still got hurt. I still shudder thinking about it and just how scary that moment was for me…and I’m sure for you too. But all is well and there was no permanent damage done thank God for that.
With all that has happened this month I keep trying to tell you that life isn’t a race and that I want you to stay my little baby, but you just won’t listen. I know that I have to let go and let you grow up, but it’s just so hard to do. I know that this will be a life long battle for us. But I do want you to know this: No matter what, No matter your age, your development, No matter what happens in life, you will ALWAYS be my baby boy. You will always be my first born. You will always be the one that taught me that my heart could grow 100 times more then what I ever thought it could with one single event…you! I will love you more and more everyday whether you like it or not, for you are my boy forever and ever amen!
I love you my dear little Logan Nut!
Kisses,
Mommy
You're too darn cute! :-)
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