Dekker OFFICIALLY turned two today! I remember two years ago very vividly. He was fresh and new, bright red still, big bruised forehead, enormous cheeks, and a funny little curl right in the front of his hair. He was the talk of the hospital that weekend. Our room was visited by people from other floors who had heard about him, and they’d come stare at him, like a sideshow almost. However, I only ever viewed it with pride. I could not have been more thrilled with our son.
I love you, Dekker.
We spent the morning getting some maternity pictures taken. My mom photographed us in a few different places that we had chosen earlier, and I think we got some really good stuff. However, Dekker was off as soon as he woke up. He would not cooperate. We have almost no pictures of all of us together, which is sad to me. But he is little, and he rather wanted to be running around or sitting on grandma. We did ok, but I was tired by the time it was over. We drove to Dalmeny to spend the afternoon with my mom. Dekker is happy to sleep there, and Brady had offered to help my parents with their computer. Plus, we were going to have a family birthday party for Deks there this evening. However, little boy was unimpressed most of the drive home, during his diaper change, and about ten minutes after he was down for his nap. Screaming. When he finally gave up on that and fell asleep, I did too. Accidental nap. It was short but amazing and completely necessary. The rest of the afternoon was quiet and lazy.
When it was time to eat supper, Dekker was up and ready and hungry. My mom had made him one of his favorites – spaghetti and meat sauce. With cucumbers and fruit salad. Super delicious. I ate TONS! So did Dekker. His cake was hard to explain but it was ridiculously delicious! It tasted like ice cream cake but it was made of cream cheese and lots of frozen cool whip. And Skor chips!!! It was incredible. Dekker wanted the whole cake on his tray, so we let him. He just poked around the top of it with a spoon and ate off some Skor chips. It was adorable 🙂 Its nice to have a family that isn’t too worried about germs.
There was a lot of work to do on the computer so while we visited and Brady worked on it, Dekker raced around the house, playing toys, shrieking, and falling all over the place. He was sooo hyper! It actually worked to our advantage, since we stayed quite a bit past his bedtime. He was in his glory though. It was wonderful. He was quite sad to leave but thankfully, didn’t cry the entire drive home! He is now safely in his bed, quiet. Hopefully all night. Until we’ll inevitably have to wake him at 9:30 to take him into the city yet again tomorrow, this time for his two year check up. Looking forward to it!
Brady and I are both fairly whooped but we’re still putting the diaper laundry through, and then even though its so late, we’re gonna run a bath. My body hurts pretty badly. But then BEDTIME! So ready.
One last milestone of today for you folks. Baby girl is due Sept 21st. Exactly one month from today. I’m not suggesting she’ll be early or exactly on the date or anything. But our focal point is one month from today. That puts me at 8 months pregnant!!! While I’m sort of hating that summer has flown by so fast, I’m super excited for our baby girl to come, and she is due on the very last day of summer, so I suppose I can sacrifice one for the other 🙂 Worth it.
I love my family. Today is a day to celebrate them.