More to Hunter

Here it is almost the end of February and another year has spun by. You turned a year old already 2 months ago. You will be 15 months old on the 1st which is only a few days away. You have changed so much in the past months that every time Grandpa and I see you, you look different. We sometimes see you two times per week but still notice the changes.

You have had your share and more of illness already. If it is going around, you have had it. I remember your cousin Tyler was the same way. So were your Mom and Aunts. I spent more time in the Doctors office waiting for one of them to get checked more than I stayed at home. At least it seems like that now.

You are walking and that really should be called running. You toddle faster than anyone I can ever remember seeing. You giggle all the way too. You are a little Hamster in that you love to be the star of the show. Guess that is how every child is, as they should be. We expect you all to grow up way too early and so you do.

Grandpa and I are going to babysit you this next week because your babysitter is going to be gone for a week. I will love it and will be tired when the week is done. I hope you stay well as you have already had too much illness.

You find joy in the simplest things. You just learned that you can point your index finger on each hand now, sometimes both at once. You hold down your thumb and that is no easy task when you are walking at the same time. You love to talk on the cell phone. You will pretend to talk into just about anything you get your hands upon. You can carry on quite a conversation too! It is just too cute. The older you get the cuter you get. Your eyes light up with joy when Grandpa and I walk into the room. There is no greater feeling than that one. To be thought of with such passion and joy means more than you will ever know. At least until I give you this journal some day.

Your Mom has been tired and needs to rest a lot now that she is going to have a brother or sister for you soon. The time will fly by and August will be here before we know what happened.

The weather has been bad most of the Month of February this year. It always turns bad just in time for the weekends. We had to come home early from going to visit your Aunt Jet. and Aunt Jo. this past few days. We went out on Thursday and stayed overnight in a motel near where Aunt Jet lives. Then we got up Friday and went to visit with your Cousin for a few hours. We had to come home early because it was to rain and turn to ice. It did. We woke up in the middle of the night and it was raining then. It was making a lot of noise when hitting the windows. I am not sure if it was coming down frozen or freezing when it landed. I knew then that we had made the right choice in ending our visit out there sooner. We will get to go before too long again.

Your Mom and Dad and you were going to go out there yesterday. We all talked your Mom into staying home. She is really glad she did now that it has turned bad. It is supposed to stay bad for a couple of days now.

I will be writing to you or your Cousin often on this blog now. It has been such a joy to have you in our lives. I remember when your Mom was born and when your Aunt Jo and Jet too. There is no job I have ever had that was harder to do or more rewarding than raising children. It kept me young too. It still does.

More later Scooter, hugs

Grandma Kate