Hey Bam-Bam!!
We have had a lot of fun this past month! October is my favorite time of year...time for Halloween, cooler weather, pretty colors and the beginning of holiday season. Add your second birthday to the mix come December, and it is just a perfect eventful next few months.
For Halloween this year, we went as Betty and Bam-Bam Rubble. You were too cute with your bam-bam stick and we even got you to bang it on the ground while shouting BAM! BAM! by the end of the neighborhood Halloween party. You were still too little to go trick or treating this year, so instead you helped me pass out candy. Maybe next year!
Daddy went away for about 10 days for work to the Ohio office, so it was just the two of us. Let me tell you, you really tested my patience, but we also had a lot of fun. You were just being a typical toddler most of the time, having melt downs, mainly out of frustration since you still cannot really tell me exactly what you want. You have not started to really talk in sentences yet, but I am not worried. I know it will come in time. All in all it was a very eye opening experience....I feel fortunate that I am able to raise you with a daddy because those 10 days told me just how hard being a single parent is.
I just kept telling myself how lucky I was that it was only for 10 days and reminding myself of how some people have to do it on their own all the time. Don't get me wrong, I love you with all my heart, but being a good mama is hard work and I just feel that I do a much better job when I have some back up! I found myself getting much shorter with you than I usually do, and I didn't like that one bit.
I salute the women/men who have to hold down the home front when their beloveds are deployed for 6 mos and sometimes even longer. I felt sad for you having to go without your daddy for just 10 days, let alone the painful separation of a deployment. I respect and admire these women and men so much that they have to buck up and be the sole parent time and time again and they do it with nary a complaint.
We passed the days making slime, going for nature walks, discovering bugs in the yard, coloring, chalk drawing, and visiting the neighbors, and of course skyping daddy and grandma and grandpa!
When daddy came home, we went out to breakfast the next morning to Cracker Barrel. It was delicious! You had a pancake with caramelized peaches and whip creme and loved it! Afterwards daddy took you up on this hill adjacent to the parking lot that overlooked the highway. You were fascinated by the trucks! It was So cute. We got a video of you "casting spells" on the trucks with your stick wand. It was hilarious. Every time a truck would go down the highway you would flick your wand at it and say "Pew!" Daddy said you were just practicing to get into Hogwarts! What's Hogwarts you say? Don't you worry little man, one day when you are a bit bigger, Mama plans to read the whole story of Harry Potter to you and you will then know! Until then, we will just have to stick to Dr. Seuss!
Love You with all my heart,
~Mama~
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