Mike and I both come from families that have small family get togethers due to amounts of uncles, aunts and cousins. Family if you are reading this we have loved the get togethers. We just feel the more the merrier. Mike and I have always agreed from the beginning that we’d have four kids to add to the future family get togethers. People with kids would laugh at us. People without kids would laugh at us. Now I know why. What the heck were we thinking? Mason has just turned a year old and then second child is a growing budding flutter inside of me and I am already freaking out.
Not so much for me but for Mason. How I am going to love another child the way that I love Mason. It sounds absolutely ridiculous but the only way in my mind that it’s going to work is if I love Mason or the second child less. Both of which hurt my heart. I feel like I am cheating Mason out of time, uninterrupted one on one time with Mommy and Daddy. The rational side of my brain thinks well, that’s not really fair because the second, third and forth child will never have what Mason had in terms of alone time with us as parents. So why should Mason get even more of it? Then the emotional side of my brain says, give Mason what he deserves you love him.
We were planning on expanding the family after Mason turned two. Our second child will be born when Mason is 19 ½ months old. Opps…I guess it was in God’s plan for as that way. As for a third and forth child, we’ll see after the second one comes.
Playing with the Christmas lights
We got him a chair from Land of Nod and I think he likes it
Climbing on his chair
Standing in his mountain of presents...he soon fell off
At times we found he was more entertained with the box his presents came in rather than the gift itself...he later fell in this box...hilarious!
Opening his presents...he did really well and caught on fast
