Happy Bek Day!

Hi all, 

Oct 14 is a big day for us around here.  It’s the day we first laid eyes on the sweetest, cutest, more adorable little boy on earth.  Our little Bekkers.  So in honor of this big day, here is just a small sample of all of the things we love about this boy.

I love his belly laugh- with his mouth wide open and his moon eyes squeezed shut.

I love that when he walks he leads with his belly.

I love that he puts his cheek on mine every morning and says “Mama” in this sort of way that makes it seem like he has been waiting for me all night and now everything is good in the world again.

I love that the tired-er he gets, the more he laughs.  I’m tempted to keep him up all night sometime just to see what happens.  He rocks.

I love when he gives the stink-eye.

I love that he hero worships our first born- his big brother, Rinat.  And I love even more that it is reciprocated.

I love that he runs full force at me and wraps his arms around my legs and buries his face in between and yells, “Mamaaaaaa!” in this lilting little way.  He just exudes love.

I love that he claps to the music in the car and that he sings himself to sleep at night.

I love that he still gets quiet and owl-like in new places and new situations.  It makes me feel needed in a way that I haven’t felt with Mr. Independent Rin.

I love that I can read every expression in his big lovey open-booked face.

I love that he hugs with every ounce of love that he can muster.

I love the way that his chubby little hands finger the charm on my necklace so gently when I am holding him when he is usually such a wrecking ball.

I love that he dances with his two fingers in the air and while bobbing up and down and shaking his little booty.

I love how he says lollipop “La’lah”

I love that instead of walking places he scoots along doing a half giddy up.

I love that he melts into me when he snuggles.

So much to love.

Now if only I could get him to stop picking his buggers and wiping them on me.  It’s so GROSS Bek!

Happy Bek Day!  Love to all, -m

Two Sweet Boys in September

Hi all,

So my sweet boy Rin is 100% loving kindergarten.  I mean so excited about school that he has trouble going to sleep at night.  And he comes home saying the cutest things.  I think I might love his teacher.  He does things like tell me he going to ‘turtle talk’ a word to sound it out.  And then when he writes a letter backwards, he flicks at his shoulder and says, “Scoot, Mr. Backwards, Scoot!”  So adorable, right?  And the boys in his class are apparently obsessed with paper airplanes.  We end up with 30 of them on the floor almost every day.  He is really learning to read books and manipulate numbers.  I hear him in the next room rolling the dice and saying things like, “OK, so 5 and 5 and 1.  That’s 11”  And when I yell in there to ask how he figured it out, he says, “ I just knew it in my brain.”  Smart little bugger.  His enthusiasm is an absolute joy to watch.  But I have to say it is really weird driving past the school and knowing that he is in there.  He is getting smarter and smarter every single day.  How am I going to ever keep up?  Maybe I’m just not meant to.  Maybe I’m just meant to be the support team while he adventures out in the world on his own.  To be the person who he can always come back to when he needs to regroup.  And I will be there. 

And our little Bekkers?  He is getting some FEISTY in him.  It’s expected of course but it does make life a little more challenging.  Visits to the grocery store absolutely MUST involve a trip to visit the lobsters (or crabs as he calls them) or there is hell to pay.  We have started sending him out of the room when he is misbehaving and so now when he gets mad at us, he turns the tables and he yells “OUT ROOM!” at us.  It’s sorta funny.  But he’s also his super duper adorable self all the time.  And he has made such strides over the time he has spent with us so far.  I mean, this is the kid who spent an entire week at the beach refusing to let one grain of sand touch him.  And look at him now- digging wholeheartedly into a big bowl of spaghetti. 

Sometimes I think about how different their lives are with us than they were in Kaz.  In Kaz, for instance they would never get to spend a rainy Saturday morning at the theatre watching the original Muppet movies with their mom and brother.  I mean, what’s not to love about popcorn, slushies, and The Muppets?  It was so fun to take them to see one of my favorite all time movies.  Just a little bit of Saturday morning heaven with my boys.    

Love to all and let me leave you with this photo of my big boy.  Adorbs.  -m