merry belated everything!! the holiday season's really flying by, is it not? i, personally, am glad for the the swiftness, as i am more than ready to go into hibernation with my
the reality is, first years (of anything) aren't always comfortable, but they are wondrously memorable, learn-on-the-fly, testing (like, life bringing you to your knees kind of testing), beautiful times where one learns what they're made of (like it or not). they're confidence-building years. so along with preparing myself for time to fly by, i wish i'd prepared myself more for feeling like i went back to school :) oh, motherhood, you sneaky zen-master, you. so yep, (zen)master leander had his first birthday! a beautiful day. he was nursing his first-ever baby cold, and he was a champ all day. he did, however, tire out before all was said and done. so... i knew the day was a success!
xmas kind of came and went at our place, aside from the decorations and our cheer, as the bday was so chock full. we were both nursing the baby cold by that point (sweetest, gentlest cold i've ever had). the plus side was all the sleepy-headed cuddle-action :) now the preparation and countdown for the new year begins. i am ready to welcome 2014. i am excited to dream what will be in the coming days, and to design it as well! i am not going agro-resolution, no. i've learned over the years that i require more flexibility as far as these things are concerned.
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oh my God, I'm here, I'm here! and gratefully so! i finally got to this space. i needed to get here terribly. i've missed it. it's fun to carve out a snapshot of my life and leave it here for whoever might stumble across it. even if no one stumbles across it, it's here. and i am all the more sane because of it ;) i've always loved to journal and keep a log of my life, and i have many books full--which may be fun and interesting for lee to peruse when he is older--why it never occurred to me to start blogging until i became a mom? not sure. maybe because i was busy relating, dancing, singing, listening to and making music (percussion and guitars), writing poems, reading, painting, studying astrology and numerology, going to college, walking, hiking, doing yoga, sleeping, pretty much living in the hair salon i worked at for almost a decade (i <3 hair), and generally boycotting the internet, television, and the media. oh, me.
any how, yay! i am here, blog-world (yes, in 2010 I had a change of heart and finally embraced the internet--what took me so long?!)! and, yes, i have a toddler now, officially. everybody freak out! i love him so much. he's just fun. lots of fun, *lots and lots of fun* right now. he gets so many things (except for old "no!", of course), he can talk, loves to interact, and loves to love. he is my greatest blessing. his hugs are absolutely the best. he will come up to me and put his arms around my neck and burrow his head in there. it's my favorite :) he wakes up saying "hello, hello!"--kid's got sass. i love it. it's funny, i can really see him coming into his own. i try not to influence him too much, to just let him be, or become… of course that is easier said than done.
it's pretty tricky not to be using the word no all the time, when the reality is you kind of need to be doing that very thing (because your child is often attempting something that could potentially hurt/maim/kill them), or offering alternatives and employing the art of distraction. so i aim for the latter. the key seems to be keeping him busy. that whole "idle hands" bit, i guess! so far he seems to be following in my footsteps with a love of hearing and making music. he prefers grown-up instruments to his baby-friendly ones already :) i have a wee guitar he can attack when he gets a couple years older--he already has the rhythm--woo! and he is fond of books as well. also fond of eating them… i read somewhere that one of the baby food groups is paper. how true!
well, i'm starting to feel a bit heavy-eyed… i'll close with a random lee-pic from each of his twelve months *nostalgia* nite all!
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