Mums For Your Mum

Last week I came home from work to find some beautiful yellow mums sitting on the kitchen counter in a vase with a card. Your Daddy had left them for me just to tell me how much he loves me. Either that, or my hormones are starting to scare him...

I'm sure the first explanation is most accurate, but he has been bit a couple of times so the second wouldn't surprise me. I literally almost scratched his eyes out a few days ago when he "scolded" me for eating Chick-fil-a for dinner. He was just trying to make sure you were getting the healthiest food possible, but my hormones were already in a pouncing cat stance... WWIII ended when he raised a white flag and said he would no longer comment on our food choices. It's a good thing we settled that when we did because I have a feeling you're going to be craving odd/bad things for a while. So far it's been pepperjack cheese, orange juice, and strawberry-flavored things. Not actual strawberries... Just the fake, flavored stuff like strawberry ice cream - which is REALLY weird since even smelling something like that would turn my stomach prior to your arrival (Just so you know, I would really like a vanilla cupcake with strawberry icing right now).

Daddy is also getting used to sporadic emotional breakdowns. Those are usually induced by something really stupid like a commerical rather than something important like world hunger. If I'm not bursting into tears, I'm telling him that I need some space one second and snuggling up to him the next. Your poor Daddy is probably terrified. I would be.

You're 6 weeks old now and the size of a tiny lentil bean... You're growing arm and leg buds so I like to think of you as a cute, stubby little teddy bear :) I'm pretty sure you're using those new buds to press Mommy's "Nausea Button". I didn't start feeling sick until you grew them, so this is obviously the only conclusion. If you want to see the rainbow you have to deal with the rain - so go ahead and press that button all you want my Little Rainbow. But if you want to press my "Craving Healthy Vegetables Button" I'd be ok with that too. Just sayin'.

This will be one of your most rapid developmental weeks, so I will do my best to not scare off Daddy, and try to trick myself into thinking broccoli is actually strawberry icing. Maybe I should try strawberry icing on broccoli? Hmm...

I love you always!

Love,
Mommy