love story

I am constantly amazed at how much life force can exist in such a small person. He's tiny, really, just 41 lbs and 3 & 1/2 feet tall, but his capacity for wonder and love and delight and joy seems to so much exceed his physical size. We are totally in love with him, David and I. I know I'm hopeless, still checking on him every night, feeling all soft when I gaze on his sweet sleeping face, stealing the lightest of kisses on his slumbering cheek while I whisper to him how wonderful he is. I didn't realize David was still as mushy as I am until he came home from work today and saw Dennis napping in our bed, me reading beside him. I glanced up in time to see his face just melt at the sight of our sleeping son, and it made him love him that much more. What a joy our little family is.

We had Family Movie Night tonight and watched Mars Needs Moms. Dennis was a bit unnerved at the idea of Martians stealing mothers, but he told me he would have rescued me if they'd kidnapped me! And then he mooned me and headed off to bed. He came back shortly for giggles and kisses and to show us his shiny clean teeth. David found that he'd turned his fan on high and pulled the covers up to his nose. He won't sleep until you "turn the fan to the H, not the L or the M. It has to be on the H for me to go to sleep." We turn it to OFF after he falls asleep!