I don’t know how these months evaporate so quickly, other than the old saying that time flies when you’re having fun. Today marked Brendan’s 22nd month birthday. And as usual, he keeps getting sweeter. Some favorite moments:
Pizza. Brendan proves again that he takes after his Daddy by constantly asking for pizza. We went out for dinner on Sunday night, and after doing some of his best coloring ever, Brendan ate an entire half pizza all by himself. And when I say, “ate”, I should really say, “inhaled”. It was a yummy restaurant, but even if it wasn’t, we would return – couple the pizza with the fact that it’s in the same mall as the choo choo train, and we had one happy little boy.
Bird watching. He loves birds – often times we sit facing the open door at breakfast and just listen to the birds. His very favorite is the mourning dove, which has always been one of Mommy’s favorites too. They like to talk to us at breakfast.
Brendan also loves it when we make him a tunnel. We pull the chairs from the island out and turn them around so we can drape a big blanket over them while we anchor the other end on the counter. He likes to drive his bus around in a circle that includes his tunnel – but recently he has also enjoyed going under there with Daddy to have a picnic and read books. One morning Mommy was running around being busy and didn’t get the hint about the tunnel – so he dragged the big blanket over to me so that I’d be sure and understand what he meant when he said, ‘tunnel’. I changed my unimportant business into tunnel making on the double.
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Brendan had one hard night this past week – I can tell when he is having some kind of nightmare because he wants to go ‘downstairs’. I totally get that feeling – sometimes you need to leave your room and do a reset to get back to sleep. So we head downstairs, and usually we cuddle up on the couch together. But ever since I made that lounger, he wants to lie down there instead. This is all fine and good except for the fact that Brendan likes to be in the middle of the lounger while Mommy is relegated to the floor. All hard floor time is forgiven though when he curls in to spoon with Mommy.
Daddy took me on a date night this weekend – he actually tried to take us away for the weekend to celebrate the anniversary that I thought was forgotten, but I’m the worst wife in the world to try and surprise. So I poo-pooed the weekend away in favor for a dinner together. It was a really fun night, made less stressful by the fact that Brendan barely looked back as he went to play at the Uncle’s house. There weren’t any videos of our son playing in the toilet, or texts about Uncle Brian trying to change his first poopy diaper – but we did come home to find they had taught him a new phrase:
Go Boston indeed. What a week.
Today as I picked him up from school, another little boy got very sad because seeing me make him miss his Mommy. As we walked out, the little boy was still crying in his teacher’s arms, and Brendan looked at me with a face I knew held a whole bunch of concern. We talked about that his friend was sad, and Brendan said, “I hug”. I opened up the door for him, and he went right over to his friend and gave him a big hug. Not only did his friend stop crying, but another little girl came right over to hug Brendan. And then another little girl came over to hug Brendan. Perfect life lessons: Spread Love. Take Care Of Your Friends. Kindness Begets Kindness. We talked about these things on the way out. I let him know that brave kindness would always be one of the things that would make me most proud, and it seems to be second nature to my little man.