Lil’ Duck (reading a book): “All you need is love…”

Mama: “What is love, baby?”

Lil’ Duck: “Love is Mommy!!”

On our third Mother’s Day with the little one, we are celebrating with one of his three beloved grandmas. He adores all of his grandmas & takes over the cell phone daily to call them and tell them all about his newest adventures. We are just so thankful that he can have such a great relationship with all of his grandmothers, which isn’t something that all children have, of course. Since I was a little short on time, I adapted this birthday card design for his Mother’s Day card to his grandmas:

As for me, I enjoyed creating this card for him as a look back through the 2 1/2 years since he’s arrived - so much happiness and so many sweet smiles (and thousands of photos!). Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers & grandmothers, take time to enjoy the blessings of the little ones this holiday!

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After looking back at previous Thanksgiving photos, it’s hard to believe that this year he was sitting at the table with the adults, eating off a real plate and using a real spoon. He loved the mashed potatoes, to where he had four helpings - I guess his ban on vegetables doesn’t extend to potatoes. He also liked the crescent rolls, but he wanted to take one bite out of each of them and kept asking for “a new one, a WARM one, no ucky old one”. Hah!

As for the turkey - he wasn’t too impressed. He asked for “chicken” and insisted that the turkey statue on the table was a chicken - that “lay eggs bwak, bwak, bwak, bwak, chiccccckkkken!” Nevermind that the turkey on the table was multi-colored and was sitting on pumpkins (which led to the running joke about the turkey laying pumpkins, which Lil’ Duck took quite seriously, of course). No worries though, as his mommy isn’t a big meat-eater anyway, so the turkey was safe from him at least. It was good turkey though…. (more…)

We have nothing but thankful hearts this Thanksgiving season! Lil’ Duck brings us so much joy every day - that he is happy and healthy and learning new things every day is more than enough to be thankful for this holiday. Here’s a look back at his first Thanksgiving: (more…)

Lil’ Duck’s new favorite movie is Cars. He loves everything about it and yells “WOW, cars, mama, look, cars, daddy, look, CARS!!” constantly. We rented the DVD from Blockbuster and he carts it with him around the house - he even asked to bring it with him while we were out and about today. Every day, he wants to watch it constantly - he loves Lightning McQueen (the red car) of course, but also the tow truck Mater, and boos at the green car.

On Sunday, he asked to take it to Grandpa’s house to watch it on the BIG screen television - so we did, and he was awed by the sight of his cars on a big TV and the sound with a full surround system and subwoofer (something our neighbors wouldn’t appreciate here, surely). Today when he was again at Grandpa’s house, he asked for Cars (which was here at home), remembering what fun it was before! It amazes me how much joy one little thing can bring into his life, he surely does love his Cars!

Lil’ Duck’s daddy has been working a lot of late, but last night he finally couldn’t wait for Daddy any more. He started howling and yelling for “Da-da, car, home, vroom-vroom, play me!”. I tried to distract him, asking him what he would do when Daddy did come home.

Little did I know, I was unleashing upon myself an hour’s worth of “Da-da, daaaaaaa-daaaaaaaa, hug, da-da, kiss, da-da, hide-seek me!” Thankfully, after that hour, the beloved daddy did arrive home, resulting in the happiest hour of the day for the little guy as Daddy played games with him tirelessly from 9:30pm until he fell asleep around 11pm.

Never underestimate how attached a little one can get to his Daddy, even if he isn’t home very often!