Little Brendon is now one month old and in such a tiny body, he has the biggest personality. You can never really imagine how much you can love someone or something until you have a child. I am in love with my little boy and I have never felt so much happiness in my entire life. I no longer wonder what it is like to stay home and be a full time mommy! It’s great! And no, I don’t knit and sit around in a rocking chair all day like a granny. The first question my best friend Jolene had for me once she knew I was a mommy was, do you sit around and knit? Well, I do have a leather rocking recliner that I really love. So I guess I am a little like a granny now. I know she was just joking with me, but it made me realize how so many people must think of me as crazy. I’ve had so many people see me with a baby and say..wow, you are so young to have a baby. It’s as if the world doesn’t understand why we have children anymore. People become far too selfish and forget the greatest joy in life in raising little ones. I’m glad I have the gospel to constantly remind me what is most important. It’s not strange to want to have children, to me its strange to not want to have children.

Well at around a month old Brendon now coos like crazy, smiles a ton, and now has started to interact with us. It’s so much fun playing with him and his toys. When I say playing I mean, showing him a toy, getting him to grab it, and he tries to stick it straight in his mouth. Any interaction with him is absolutely precious. It’s crazy cause he went from hating his bath and changing table to loving both of them. Now instead of screams of bloody murder, I get smiles and coos of interaction. The funniest thing happened today. As he was cooing in my arms I was getting ready to feed him and I swear he gave his first word. Of course it was on accident and he didn’t know he was saying anything. But I swear that he said Mommy. It was so wierd cause it was as clear as day in the middle of his cooing. It was the funniest and cutest thing ever! He must be smart like his daddy! The days are definitely flying by and Brendon is getting big and chubby! It’s hard to believe that just a little over a month ago I came home from the hospital with a little baby boy. Brendon and I are so set with our routine that it feels like he’s always been with me and its never been any different. And that is definitely a GOOD thing!