Letters to my loves: Dear Matthew

Dear Matthew,

You are a very easy baby and I just want to cuddle with your cheeks! Every time I lay eyes on you I want to SQUEEEEEEEEEZE you! You are beyond adorable and have an absolute contagious smile. My favorite thing to do with you right now is to lay you down and get within in gripping distance of your hands.... you immediately smile and start talking and rub your slobbery, fat fingers all over my face and in my mouth and occasionally up my nose, but I don't care, I love every second of it (less the hair pulling).

You have found your feet, but instantly forget where they are when I try to take a picture of it...stinker! you have a grip like nothing I have seen and you kick like a mad man when you are excited or have something to say.

I love to watch you watch John. You will contort yourself every which way to get a glimpse, but he is a little fast for you to follow sometimes. You would give your right arm if he would sit still long enough to grab hold of his cheeks and talk for awhile. If you are fussy about something, John is almost always an instant cure (assuming I can talk him into singing or dancing for you).

The pacifier is a MUST the first time you lay down at nap/night, and you like it okay when you are in the car seat, but I think you could care less for it most of the time. Nap and night time are so easy with you (compared to John that is) and you like baths. I think God threw me a bone on those two things as your brother was a bit of a nightmare in these areas. :)

You started foods this month and are a champion yet messy eater. Still slouching quite a bit in the high chair, but we are working on it. Your neck strength is much more on track, but you still have a STRONG preference to look to your right. We do "exercises" every time you are awake and it is getting better, but far from normal I think.

You are a Mama's boy, but will warm up to others after awhile. Part of me loves this, part of me does not.

A perfect stranger could not pick out you and John as brothers in a line up, I think you got my side of the family and John got the Jones' physical traits. Which means you will have abnormally long fingers and toes and possible prone to some chubby legs. :)

Life with you in it is just better! I love you little bubba!