Ascendance Into Motherhood

Edwin is learning so many new things! Today in his online speech therapy, he said "bye bye" over and over to his therapist and signed "all done." It was funny because we weren't done, but it was also kind of sad because he clearly wanted to go outside and didn't want to do speech therapy. He's getting very communicative about what he likes and doesn't like. He sits in his booster seat at the table and says "eat now!" And he sits in my spot on the bed and says "mine." He also pushes his toys into me and says mean before he actually does it. I'm not sure what to make of his little personality yet! Haha.

Today was a wonderful day of experiences with my son. Edwin said his first ‘th’ word, “other.” He said it over and over again because he was so excited! He also learnt how to annoy me by pressing the same button on his puppy toy so that it would sing: “who do I hear buzzing from? It’s a bee! *roar* did you hear that!? It’s a lion, can you roar like that?” He laughed and hit the same two buttons over and over again knowing how obnoxious it was. I was too proud to be completely annoyed, haha. There’s also a character in one of his nursery rhymes books who looks like David. Unfortunately, but also quite hilariously, it’s about a crooked man who lives in a crooked house. I teasingly say, “Look! It’s Daddy!” And now he points to David every time we read it. LOL. Today, however, he noticed the character wears a hat, so he went up to David and put his hands through his hair as if to say, “Where’s your hat?” We went to the grocery store as a family for the first time in over two months tod...

I’ve told myself I want to document my beautiful boy’s life journey more, so I am committing myself towards deeper reflections. Little Edwin is growing so much! After a month of speech therapy, his language has bursted into understandable and frequent word-development! We have been doing speech therapy remotely, but I already knew he was going to have a leap in his language skills. I do not think the speech therapy made much difference, but Rachel and Katy’s advice has been useful. Yesterday Edwin ran around the bedrooms screaming and cackling hysterically. It was so cute. He is so excited to be alive and to communicate and play games with us! He found a new hiding spot in our Hide and Seek play, behind the crib in the dark. He’s not afraid of the dark. He’s not afraid of much, but I did convince him not to play with the printer when he turned it on a week ago and it started searching for paper. I told him it could eat his hand and he backed away very cautiously! David tried not to...

Little Edwin is 21 months old. Some of his interests are playing with the chalkboard I painted and sawed and built for him. He is very artistically inclined! He loves putting the keys in different locks and can even put the key in the ignition and turn it on. He loves radios, pressing their buttons to see what they do and turning up the volume loudly, in which case I have to come turn it down. His favorite letter is ‘W,’ and he’s even drawn it! He doesn’t say too much yet, only pronouncing the first of most words. He just now pointed to a W and said ‘wuh,’ without being prompted. He tries to climb into his crib but can’t. He’s not been sleeping well and got very excited when my dad came up for thanksgiving. He wouldn’t sleep and wanted to come play in the living room. Right now he caught a cold from a friend’s son and had a very hard time yesterday with his sleep. He napped for ten minutes and was so tired at night but his nose was too stopped up to nurse. That wasn’t easy. Edwin lov...

So much has taken place since I last posted a blog. I feel a little bad that I didn't keep up with this journal. Things have been so busy. I have spent a lot of time working on getting ready for the baby that there just wasn't time for this blog. But tonight I feel like taking the time to write something. I really wanted to have a journal to look back on during the first moments of my baby's life. Many things have happened throughout these 7 months, but I will focus more on how I am today. Today I read baby his first book. One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue fish. I laid on the bed in my old room with my shirt lifted up, talking in an animated voice so that he could hear the rhymes. He moved a lot during the reading, so I hope he liked it. He moves a lot when I lay on my back. It's beautiful to see and feel him moving. He is moving even now. I spend a lot of time feeling him beneath my skin, deep within the safety of my womb. He is ever growing and getting so big! I am ...

Hello, my sweet baby. I often think of so many things I want to say to you, but as I sit here now on my bed, listening to Cage the Elephant- Back Against the Wall, I feel lost for words. I suppose it's my own fault. After all, it's not exactly the most inspiring song for writing to an unborn child. You'll hear it one day. I have plans to play as much music as I can for you to grow from so that you can be just like me in regards to musical repertoire. The song has ended, and now I think I will put on some relaxing music, because this is not at all how I thought this post would go. It's just me idolising some romantic gesture of motherly love. At least it feels that way now, but earlier I had a lot of that sappy motherly love to give! I've now picked a Youtube album I've never heard of called Rainy Days, by Spacemind. Oh my sweet love. I know you will be spacey and other-worldly! I will try to keep us grounded, but I know I am not so grounded, myself. Your...