Puddingstash

tank's fabulous puddingstash

Do you know how exciting it is to have a child who is endlessly joyful? Endlessly silly? Endlessly laughing and pulling one on you?....

My dear baby boy, Henry, is such a child - and for some unexplainable reason, I am feeling immense gratitude for his life being tied to mine.

He was the baby I wasn't supposed to have because I was pregnant already. I lost that baby at six weeks and the next month conceived Tank. It was an emotional pregnancy. I was the most awful wife and friend to my husband. I even felt disconnected from Henry for the first month of his life and in many ways, resented his presence in our family. And then, little by little. Day by day... He dug a whole into my heart and moved deeper still - until he invaded my soul.

And now..... I can't even imagine a day without him running around the house, climbing on things - eating everything - pushing Georgia and then running away laughing - stealing toys from Georgia and then running away laughing - running away laughing at everything - and then finding something else to run away from and laugh some more..... and did I mention the dance moves? and the way in which he SPEAKS in the loudest tone possible! and the way he lights up when Jeff comes home and runs straight for the guitar, anxious for him to play him something jammin? I love love love you bud and your tender-joyful-heart!