5 1/2 months…
In the last few days Wilhelmina has gone from doing the belly crawl to doing a knee/ leg crawl. She hasn’t exactly made up her mind about what her legs should be doing but she still gets where she wants to go. Luckily, she is not too adventurous yet so while we have put the gate up we haven’t needed to close any doors or make sure other rooms are safe. It won’t be long though.
Another new feat is sitting up… she has been sitting for a while but would topple over within a few minutes, but now she is steady and can go from laying down to sitting to crawling…
As with Colin when he was a baby, since she doesn’t know where exactly to put her legs when crawling, she happened to move in such a way as to end up sitting and then realized that she can do it when she wants…
I can’t believe how fast this is going. Wilhelmina is most likely our last so I am making sure to savour all of these moments because they go by so fast…
Eight…
Eight years ago yesterday I became a mom…
It is amazing how my life and how my outlook on life and parenting have changed in those eight years.
It is amazing to see how much my eight year old has grown in those eight years…
Yesterday was the birthday boy’s day.
We went out for breakfast, something he loves to do, and then went out shopping for gifts.
He chose a three-headed dragon puppet, a Star Wars figurine, a Wii game and the two next “Bone” books (he has read the first three)…
Going out shopping has proven to be the best way to get exactly what they want and we actually end up spending less than if we shopped ourselves…
then we came home for Pizza and Cake…
It was just a great family day and a “very good birthday” (according to Mr. X himself)
I just can’t believe that he is already 8!
Meeting the greats…
Last week, Wilhelmina met her great-grandmothers. Last Wednesday, I picked up my father and went over to the nursing home his mom lives in to have lunch and spend a bit of time.
At 91 years old, she is a good shape physically, but with Alzheimer’s, her memory is slowly fading, but it isn’t gone yet. Being in the nursing home has helped her immensely these last few years.
My father didn’t tell her we were coming, so she was very happily surprised when we showed up in the dining hall… We ate lunch and then went up to her room and talked I was happy to see her and bring a smile to her face.
my dad was also very happy to meet his new granddaughter…
A few days later, on Sunday, my mom came to visit with her mom…
The last time my grandmother had come here was just before her surgery for stomach Cancer last November.The surgery went well, they took out 3/4 of her stomach and she has been recuperating since… she has lost weight and had pneumonia last month but is feeling better and is trying to gain her weight back…
She was very excited to meet her great-granddaughter…
My grandmother and my mom…
One thing that we wanted to do was to get a picture with the four generations of Women. We had a similar picture taken when I was a baby in my great-grandmother’s arms with my mom on one side and my grandmother on the other…
Then I asked the boys to come in the picture with us and surprisingly they all came without hesitation…
A picture I will always cherish…
I had a very special relationship with my great-grandmother when I was a child and a young teen. She was an amazing woman and I loved being with her and went to see her as often as I could, which was almost everyday in the year before she died. I am so grateful that my grandmothers are both still around, and I hope that as my children grow they will know their “greats” and have a relationship with them that they can remember also…
