Love Letter to Our Baby Boy

Dear Baby,

Thank you for being my little sweetheart.  I hope you know what a joy you are to you daddy and me.  These past several weeks as your mommy have been among the happiest of my life. 

You are starting to develop such a cute little personality.  You are pretty mellow and don’t really fuss very much (except when you are getting your diaper changed!).  Lately though, you really don’t like to be put down!  This works pretty well for me because I don’t really like to put you down.  Let’s just say I am getting pretty talented at doing things one handed. 

You love your bath.  You love getting dried off next to a toasty space heater all wrapped up in your cute little monster towel.  You are getting the cutest little rolls on your thighs!  Is there anything cuter than fat, rolly, baby thighs?  Nay!  We LOVE that you are getting so chunky! 

Those chubby cheeks of yours are too cute for words.  I can’t go more than two seconds without kissing them.  Seriously.  Half the time you have traces of lip gloss all over your face.  I can’t help it.  I have to smooch you as often as possible before you grow up and try to stop me.   

Yesterday, you woke up and were all smiles.  It absolutely melted my heart!  You have smiled before, but you are just learning how to interact through facial expression.  I think my favorite sight in the whole world is your smile!  I will make all kinds of ridiculous faces and do all sorts of silly things to earn one of those smiles.  I always whip out the camera to try and capture it, but photographing your gummy grin is easier said than done.  Once you see that camera, you usually become all serious.  Little toot. 

You love your daddy.  When he picks you up when he comes home from work, you give him an “I missed you Dad,” smile.  I love watching my boys together.  Your daddy loves to talk to you and talk for you.  He has an “M voice” where he says all the things he thinks you are thinking.  

I adore the little noises you make.  My favorite sound in the world is you sucking on your pacifier.  I have recorded seventeen hours (give or take) of you enjoying your binky.  I love drifting off to sleep to that sound.  My favorite lullaby.  It’s also really cute to listen to you drinking your bottle.  You are quite a messy, noisy eater!  Daddy and I like to talk about how funny it would be if adults were so vocal while enjoying a good meal.  It wouldn’t be so cute if we slurped and sloshed like you, but it’s simply irresistible when you do it. 

You are such a cute little guy.  You always get lots of oohs and ahhs when we’re out and about.  You get lots of compliments on your abundance of hair and plump little cheeks.  You are starting to get a receding hairline like a grandpa!  I’m sad to see all that cute hair go, but you would be the cutest baby in the world even if you were as bald as an egg. 

You have lots of nicknames: Mister, Teddy Bear, Sweetheart, Honey, Handsome, Stinkerpot, Little Fatso (Don’t think this one is mean!  We LOVE that you are a little chunky baby!  It is a most affectionate compliment!), Little One, Little Toot… we make up more every day.

Oh little one, I hope you always know how blessed I feel to get to be your momma.  We are just so smitten with our little man. 

love,

Mommy