Jack is One

This post just jumped the line of blog posts that have been waiting so patiently.  But once they see what it is, I'm sure they won't even be mad.

Jack is one today.  I'm feeling a lack of intense emotion, probably because I have been so sick this week (shingles) that I've blocked out most feelings.


I think it's kind of symbolic though, that my final baby was born on the last day of summer.

Our family is moving on to a new season.  Instead of bringing new little babies into this world, 

we will instead be focused on surviving the chaos we've created.

I mean, we'll be focused on raising these children.  (And surviving.)

I think motherhood is one of the most confusing jobs in the world.

I am overwhelmed with my day to day job and can't wait until my physical load lessens.  (Though I have made the disappointing discovery lately, that my emotional load will only increase as they grow.)

But, Oh! These babies are addicting!

There is nothing like them.  I want to have a hundred babies.  

But I'm so tired and my brain is fried.

Today I choose celebrate that I got to have five.  I know I am lucky.

I will celebrate that God laughed in the face of birth control and gave me Jack.

He's got 6 teeth now.  He mostly sleeps through the night, occasionally he wakes at 4 or 5am to eat.  

He crawls like a pro.  Pulls up on everything.  And climbs the stairs faster than you can say "concussion."

He has no interest in walking or even holding onto your hands and bearing weight.  

He loves to eat and hasn't proven to be very picky, 

but if he's anything like his siblings, he'll wait a little while and then start to refuse everything.

His eyes are a grey-green.

He loves music and being tickled.

He loves his siblings.  Nothing gets him more excited.  In fact, the only way he smiled in a any of these pictures was if Ava was off to the side being silly for him.

He loves his daddy so much.  He's been a man's man since the beginning. Luckily he loves me a little bit too.  Which is good because the feeling is definitely mutual.