Putting it Into Perspective

I was reading my friend's blog today, and it was full of all the wonderful things that her son does that melts her heart and amazes her. I realized that I tend to omit those kinds of things from my blog, cause I'm always feeling sorry for myself. It's been all about cranky baby and restless nights. Although it is very frustrating, I need to focus more on the positives that he brings to my life. I do this on a day to day basis with him, but I find that I unload too much on my blog. I'm not going to promise that I'll never do it again, but I'll definitely offset it with more wonderful memories that Reid and I and Christien are making together.

With that being said... here are a few things that he does that amazes me and makes me laugh:

- You can give him a diaper and he'll open it up and try to wrap it around his butt and sit on it. So smart that he knows what to do with it.

- Yesterday, I was tidying, it was close to dinner and I had a kids microwave meal on the counter. Reid was playing with it. He took the meal out of the box and gave it to me to heat up. While I was heating it up, he took the cardboard box that it came in and threw it in the recycling box. Again, so smart!! How did he even pick up on that??

- When he plays with cars he does the whole "vroom vroom" back and forth on their wheels

- He says "baba" all the time when he wants a bottle, and ball.

- He knows his nose, my nose, Christien's nose, Franklin's nose. But... he calls it a go.

- He knows his name. When you say "Reid" he'll look at you and say "bwaahh?"

- He tells on Franklin when he's on the table and he shouldn't be. He'll run over with a finger in the air yelling "GO"

- He was jumping on a trampoline this weekend with a 5 year old and laughing his head off about it. He picked up on it really quick too. From launching himself around to actually jumping off the trampoline.

Christien said something to me today that put it all into perspective. I told him that last night was a good candidate for one of the worst nights of my life. Reid was up at least every hour, and when he wasn't waking me up, I was keeping myself up with this massive hacking cough that I've inherited from Christien. After told him that it was the worst he said "did somebody break into the house?"... and you know what...?? That would have been the worst day of my life. That just made me take a step back and look at what really matters. It can always be worse.