So, you know how in Relief Society these days they have a "Good News Minute" to give anyone who wants to the opportunity to share any random bit of good news? Well, since pretty much the day Israel was born, I have been just waiting and longing for the day when I could raise my hand and then announce ecstatically to everyone present that he was sleeping through the night. Well, ladies, today was that day. It is official! Israel (or Israeli for short if you're Kristen) is sleeping through the night!!! (And by sleeping through the night, I mean that he goes to bed around nine and doesn't wake up to be nursed til about six.) Finally. I'm nearly overjoyed......so, I guess just joyed? Oh happy day, well night really. It is good to get sleep. This last week was full of other baby developments. Israel has started to "real" crawl, pull himself to standing, and climb stairs and has just gotten his sixth tooth. Here are a few pictures of our precious little babe.
I just want to say so everyone knows-- I LOVE being a mom...more than anything in the world. Sometimes I get so frustrated at Israel I scream, but it is AWESOME. I was watching a movie yesterday, not paying any real attention to Israel, when I felt him grabbing at my leg and clothes, pulling himself up to standing. I looked down at him standing there with his tiny little hand on my knee and a big toothy grin and his big, blues eyes that are just so beautiful and pure, and I just fell in love with him all over again, for like the millionth time. What a miracle my son is. How very, very grateful I am to have him in my life and to have the opportunity to be his mother and to raise him and to have him call me "Mom". Wow, I'm a mom! I can't wait to have another baby-- just anxiously awaiting my period to start trying again.
