So, Moms out there, at what point do you stop telling your child's age in months? And at what point do you stop updating month by month. I feel a little guilty even asking that. I know I'm glad I've posted each month of his life so far, because he has changed so much! I guess I'll keep it up as long as I can.
I watched most of Toy Story 3 the other night. Holy cow. As fast as the days, months, years keep flying by, that movie made me so sad! I kept looking at Daniel and commenting that Sullivan would be going to college before we know it. Breaks my heart to think about my sweet little boy being all grown up and going off on his own. Of course, as a parent, everything I do is in preparation for him to become a kind and intelligent adult member of society. But the reality of that is, he won't be my sweet, cuddly little boy any more. I totally understand why some parents would tell me to let him sleep in the bed or whatever since soon he would be too old or too cool to want to do so. Maybe the holidays just have me being emotional and unreasonable.
On to happier stuff?! I really don't even know where to begin. Work has been exceedingly busy, so I feel like we haven't done much of anything lately. We were in Cleveland for Thanksgiving for a nice, long weekend. It was wonderful to spend so much time with my family. I'm looking forward to more downtime over Christmas. Our Rotary club had the Christmas Store this past weekend, and it was a huge success again. I believe we bought gifts/books for about 775 children in our county. This is our club's biggest service project of the year, but so worth the work! My book club just finished reading The Widower's Tale by Julia Glass? It was good, but at about 400 pages, it was a struggle for me to find the time to read it! I hope the next book is 200 or less!
Ok, so I totally got off track! Sullivan is 25 months old. He weighs just over 30 lbs. Can't recall his height at the moment. He's doing so well with his language. We frequently get 4+ word sentences! He loves to read with us and sing songs with us. Jingle Bells and Rudolph are big favorites this month. He's been eating soooooo much better! Maybe turning 2 turned a corner on that front. Last night he ate pork tenderloin, carrots I cooked, mac & cheese, roll, and cranberry sauce! It was like a normal meal! I shouldn't be this excited I suppose, but it sure will make life easier if I don't have to cook something extra that he'll eat! Sullivan is loving the Christmas tree. Daniel says he's just like me in that he wants it on all the time. First thing he says when he wakes up is "turn on the Christmas treat". He helped me with quality control while decorating by letting me know if each strand of light or ornament was pretty enough for our tree and where I should put them. It made my heart so glad to share that tradition with him. Sullivan and I also made our first snowman together! Since Oxford got a snow that stuck around for a bit the other morning, he and I made a point to play in it. Daniel was sleeping...typical lazy bones, but Sullivan and I caught snowflakes on our tongues, built a tiny snowman, and made some snowballs. We followed this with a cup of hot chocolate...which Sullivan promptly spilled, but it was a lovely morning anyway!
