You Forget

It's only been 17 months since Brianna was this age, and yet I've already forgotten so much.

• All the wrinkly skin
• Hair in random places (fortunately Bri is NOT still blessed with back hair)
• the pitiful cries
• the magnetism when your hours-old baby opens his eyes and stares dead at you
• they prefer contact with you over their bassinet
• they love to move
• deadly claws for fingernails
• surprising burps
• the fact that I cried already just looking at him and realizing how blessed we are
• even if you are starving or exhausted you want them to get straightened out before you
• I'm not that bad at one-handed typing
• I'm getting ready to read an awful lot of books or watch lots of TV during his mealtime
• everything else in life just became a little less significant (except for prayer!)
• still in shock that I'm not supposed to drive a car for 1-2 weeks...
• mittens don't stay on hands that don't stay still
• facial expressions
• life slows down a little bit
• big yawns
• gummy mouth

We were cleared to come home tonight. I am just staying up until Hunter's next feeding - 20 minutes - and then I will sleep, and hopefully he will too. So excited about this little boy. I think we will keep him.