47 Weeks

Brand New

Dear Peppermint,

I go over and over photos of you when you’re sleeping, or hanging out with Dad or Gramsy. Trying to pinch myself awake thinking it’s all a dream. Those little hands that were in fists for weeks, your arms flailing around out of control and your little scrunched up face – it’s all so fuzzy already. You are changing so fast and it’s hard to keep up. The past few days you’ll take a step to come to us. You’re saying so many words. You just sit there reading your books looking all grown up, carefully turning the pages to find your favorite. And then you’ll turn to me and squeeze my neck with your strong arms, pat my shoulder and kiss my neck with a warm ‘mmmmmm’ and it’s the best feeling ever. Until tomorrow at least.

Always,
Mom

My 1st Mother’s Day

We had a low key day at home. Sam and Peps are both sick, Peps just a little cough/snot but Sam feels pretty rotten. Last night was rough – Pepper woke up (for the 3rd time) around midnight and we couldn’t get her back down till almost 3. I remember rocking her at 12:30a thinking that it was a fitting way to start off my first Mother’s Day, haha! I’ll be glad when everyone’s healthy again and nights are back to normal. I was going to write this epic post about being a mom and all things wonderful and challenging about it but Sam said since it’s Mother’s Day he’ll watch Grey’s Anatomy with me. I chose that!

Oh yeah! I got a super cute framed picture and a 1tb harddrive for my computer. I was running out of room with all these photos of Pepper, sheesh! Thanks bebe!

46 Weeks

46 weeks, that’s so close to one year I can’t even take it. Poor little Pepper feels pretty awful today, yesterday too. She had a fever and was banging on her head so we took her to the doc to make sure her ears were ok. They are. Just a little viral thing she said, or it could just be her teeth but the fever is a little high for that. We were up a LOT last night, we’re both pretty worn out today. She was such a good sport during the photoshoot. I think that really says something about her personality, that she’s able to laugh and still have fun while feeling awful.

Her other big tooth is coming in on the top – plus one or two more on the bottom and her mouth is really bothering her. She hits her cheeks and looks at me with this face, like, why won’t you do something?! Oye. We tried Tylenol yesterday and she threw up both times. =(

This photo is my favorite of the gramsy-holding-pepper-upside-down-trying-to-get-teeth-shots and her teeth aren’t even in it, haha.

Irrigation //

It’s such a waste of water but it’s oh so fun when the irrigation overflows on the corner! Just ask Pepper and the neighborhood kids!

45 Weeks

Awe, Pepper is getting cuter and more fun by the millisecond. And these Tuesday photos are getting harder and harder to cull and edit. I usually quickly snap around 100, lots of turning at the last second, crawling away, looking down, blurry… I’ll flag around 20-30 as being good. Then from those, 10 or so that I have the hardest time picking from. Today I just decided to edit some extras.




PS. Noticed you have another tooth today! A little one to the right of your big front tooth!

44 Weeks

Couple of steps behind…

Just read this article by Serge Bielanko in response to time flying by and thought this part was so sweet. [link]

You can stand there in all that savage noise of your life popping off/the two p.m. sun beating down on you with a stick made out of sky/and you can watch your daughter chasing one of those dime-a-dozen white butterflies across the yard, the kind that look like two communion wafers eloping on some thermal wind, and you can see her legs carrying her over the new green grass. You can watch, and almost feel it, as her naked feet move her so swift, tagging down in some lush uncut clump of emerald and then launching her back into space as she reaches out to grab at something wilder than any mountain on Earth, something she could never catch in a million years, and when it finally slams into the back of your aging skull that she is growing up now and she is so much more than you could have ever freaking dreamed she would be that first moment you touched her face/her hot pinkishness and fell so madly in love with her that God himself stopped his fishing for a minute and peered down off of the side of his bass boat to see just what a proud papa was hatching down there on that little blue and green rock in the shallows of the deep dark lake: only then will you realize that you are always gonna be a couple of steps behind all the love in your heart because it’s too damn big, man, for even you to handle.

10 Months

Oh, the Thinks!

The last 3 days you’ve been crazy about the book Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! You have me read it over and over again before bed, recite it while we’re turning out the lights and going to sleep, and anytime we need to calm down. I start the first line and your head is on my shoulder in a split second – it’s crazy! The last page is your favorite – think left and think right, think low and think high – oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

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