as you can see, august is not at all impressed. oh well. wishing you and your loved ones a HAPPY EASTER! hoping that not just today, but every day, you are reminded of how AWESOME our God is.

eat lots of chocolate and marshmallows.

with lots of love,
mark, sarah, and august

dear august,

today, i decided that we’d dance to coldplay (rockabye coldplay to be exact). we danced to the first couple of songs, you smiled, and seemed fascinated and amused by the way our moves matched with the music.
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01) i’ve become really crappy at maintaining any online presence that doesn’t have anything to do with twitter. being the huge nerd that i am– this actually makes me feel really guilty. the redeeming thing about this is that i’ve gotten to spend every minute of my time away with my little baby son and that has been wonderful…and something i wouldn’t give up for anything.

02) august is growing more and more every day. it is scary, amazing, beautiful, exciting, and sad…all rolled together. talk about a huge emotional ball of “wow.” for us anyway.

03) a couple of weekends ago, i noticed that august’s started cooing and imitating. whenever we talk to him he grins, opens his mouth slightly, and stretches his neck as if he wants so badly to speak back to me. to be silly, one day, i started making an “ooohh” face and then suddenly switching it to a big open mouth smile…over and over (and yes, i did look as foolish as it may seem that i would). as august watched my mouth intently, he started moving his mouth in similar ways. he doesn’t have it down quite yet but it’s still pretty neat.

04) i had my post-partum check up and everything is healing as it should. i feel pretty great (minus the migraines) but am soooo ready to lose this baby weight already.

05) i am reeeeally excited that autumn is on its way. even though august has no clue, i am all sorts of excited to celebrate his first halloween/thanksgiving/christmas/new year. i’m a sucker for the holidays.
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