good morning!

It's been a super busy few weeks so I'm a little behind on cute photos and blog updates. Haven was sick and then I was sick and now Mike is sneezing....just can't wait until we're past this cold/flu season. Things I'm thinking about this morning: I wish I wasn't out of k-cups so I could make some coffee, how awesome life will be when Wes/Maggie arrives, Kate Herron is going to be an aunt to a little BOY, how grateful I am for my family. My mom picks Haven up from daycare 3 days a week and spends time with her so I don't have to feel guilty about how long I get stuck at work. I picture Haven looking around her classroom, watching her friends go home, and wondering where her mom is and when she will arrive. I've come to love our daycare but those thoughts still make it hard for me. We are actually planning Haven's 1st birthday party which blows my mind. I occasionally take time to look back at this blog and the photos from those first few weeks and I don't know where 9 months have gone. I was home sick with Haven one day this week and I found myself playing with her and looking at her and thinking how much fun it is to be around her. Not because she's my kid and I have to feel that way but because she has her own little personality and I genuinely like talking to her and hearing her laugh. She gets in moods where she wants to play and she tries to climb up on you and just waits for you to roll around with her--and she is super smart. She gets it when I do something to try to make her laugh and she will wait and watch me...almost asking me to do it again. She is one happy little person and the world needs more people who are truly happy and can spread that to others. There are big things in her future and everything she went through when she was younger made her into the awesome little one she has becomes so far. So, on June 26th we will celebrate her 1st birthday and it will be just the beginning of the fun to come. It's 6:25am-my house is quiet still and I'm just sitting and thinking this morning...