I'm Grateful for this:

November 18. 2010

• for the way he smiles
• for the way he giggles
• for the way he wrestles the dog
• for his constant questions
• for the way he dances
• for the way he picks up any money and puts it in his pocket "so me can buy a bubble gum"
  
• because he loves books and stories
  
• for the way he lights up when he hears his dad's truck pull up
  
• grateful for his little voice telling crazy stories and saying silly things
• grateful for his silly little personality
• grateful that because he can talk now it opens me up to the world of his little brain working and how he thinks
• I'm grateful for his chubby fingers and pukanui (big belly)
• I'm grateful he'll think I'm the best mother in the world if I feed him nothing but hot dogs for the rest of his life.
• I'm grateful he is constantly asks to visit my dad so he can cook hot dogs in his fire pit
• For the way he thinks the greatest thing to do in the world is go drive around looking at fields with Brandon.
• I love that he wants to go to the dentist so he can count his teeth and give him a balloon.
• I'm grateful there is a dentist because Landon loves nothing more than candy.
  

If you knew him like I know him you wouldn't be able to help but love him. And then you wouldn't be able to imagine your life without him and you would thank your Father in Heaven everyday for the gift he is in your life. Like I do.

I am grateful I get to wake up every morning to his mood swings (he is not a morning person) spend all day cleaning up his messes (he is a very effective mess maker. Today he dumped an entire bottle of baby lotion onto my family room chairs and then rubbed it in... he does stuff like that all the time) and listening to his newest thinks. I am grateful that after I tuck him into his bed at night I can expect to find him wandering into my room some time in the wee morning hours for hugs or just to cuddle in bed.
I'm grateful he reminds me I am a mother. I am grateful he reminds me I am his mother. I wouldn't have it any other way.