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7 months I'm Baaack

If any of my followers (okay, just you mom) are reading this and wondering, "what the what? I thought she gave up this blog?" You would be mistaken. I can't stay away. Brooks does too many amazing, wonderful and freakish things to have no outlet to share it all. My lil B (as we say here in the Boswell household) is growing every second of every day (so it seems). My little bean sprout has grown so much over the last month I look at him at the end of each day and say, where is my baby?? Brooks can crawl really fast, and pull himself up like a champ. He blah blah blathers on, he chuckles at himself, and squeals like a girl (yes, I said it, like a girl!) Butch and I have noticed that he can recognize key words when we talk to him, for instance "milk" and "sleepy time." Sleepy time is a big one because we were only getting a small amount not long ago. One week ago today (2/22/10) we actually paid money to have an "expert" analyze our routine and sleep behaviors as a family to help us get to the bottom of all the night waking and short-short naps. Well, it turns out it was the best money we spent in 7 months. Brooks is really responding to the changes we have made. To put it simply; we can no longer use motion to put him to sleep; and he is banished from falling asleep at the teet. We have had some very challenging, frustrating moments, and some on-top-of-the-world, hallelujah moments. I have never had my patience tested to this degree before. But guess what! That which does not kill you actually does make you stronger. We are on the up side of the sleeping game. We are getting way more than before. At this point I feel like I am pulling my head up out of the clouds (or out of the dirt), a haze nonetheless but absolutely worth 100% of every second. As I see it, we had it easy. We have it easy. We have a healthy, happy, thriving child with every opportunity in the world. We are lucky, blessed, however you want to see it for the gift of this beautiful child and a life that affords us every thing he could ever need. Thank you to the many wonderful, loving, caring people in our lives who helped us get to this place, and to this day help us celebrate every little success (like the fact that Brooks is taking longer naps, yea!!) Today I feel stronger and more together than yesterday. One day soon I hope to have the strength to actually give back. I have so much to offer. Waiting for my calling... a way to express who I am. One thing will never change and that is my devotion and unconditional love for my son. Brooks my love, my life, you are the apple of my eye love.

TTFN k.