Murdock Cockaigne

Nate and I took some pictures today, for his Valentine's day cards. I am thinking about doing some pictures of him with a little Valentine's greeting, rather than buying those dumb character Valentine's Day cards. Does that make me a bad mom, that I'm not letting him pick out his own? Maybe we should do both...?

Also, he's figured out what he wants to do for his birthday party (other than take all his friends to Disneyland). It's going to seriously rock, and it's an idea that I'm actually excited about, and can be done relatively inexpensively. Thank heavens.

Anyway, I just love this little man. Every day, he is growing up more and more, and slipping away, a tiny piece at a time. Well, okay, that is a little dramatic. But I do know how quickly time passes, and before we know it, he will be all grown up. He tells me all the time that he doesn't want to grow up and get married "because I want to live with you forever." It melts my heart, and I tell him that he is welcome to live with us as long as he wants. But then I quickly tell him that someday, he'll meet someone special that he will want to marry, and he'll want to start a family and live with his own wife and children. The first time I told him this, he got a worried look and asked "Can I never see you again if I get married?" We talked about my parents, and Adam's parents, and how we can see them whenever we want to. We just visit. He seemed to be calmed by that. I also said that, if we're super lucky, we can live in the same city and see each other all the time. Nate really does have a tender side to him, and I walk that line of nurturing it and squashing it. It's a delicate balance, because I know the end-result of doing one or the other too much. I want to maintain a balance of letting him have a compassionate, sensitive side (his wife will thank me later, I hope) and a manly, independent side, too (she'll thank me for that, too). Do any of you other Boy Mommas understand what I'm talking about? Anyway, it's something that is on my mind constantly. I guess I'm a little over the top, huh!

He's got his first wiggly tooth. It's not yet "hanging on by a thread," but it doesn't bother him and it doesn't bother me that it's been loose for awhile now. I don't think it will be able to hang on too much longer, but we'll see.....

(In this picture you can also see his bling, which cost just about the same as the down payment we placed on our first home. Thank heavens for modern dentistry....blech)