PREPARE FOR TOTAL CUTENESS!!!!
Things around here are about to get even more exciting as Nathaniel is now walking!! LOOK OUT! Is all I can say. This kid will be in to everything and on everything! LOL He already can climb on the couch and stand in the window sill, holding on with just his toes and fingertips!We call him our little 'sour patch kid' because he will hit you and then love on you and say "awwww". He is getting a little temper too. When you tell him "no" he whines and then tries to hit you! (I think we are going to have our hands full with this little guy! But we wouldn't have it any other way!)
Did I ever mention that he is really really LOUD!!!! Especially when we are in the vehicle, he is NEVER quiet unless he is asleep! He is constantly jibber jabbering and yelling, sometimes to the point that it makes your ears ring. No kidding! I'm guessing that he will grow out of it. I wonder if any other kids from Ethiopia are loud like him?! Joey has always said the we got the loudest child in Africa! (Haha!)
Oh yeah! We both celebrated our first Mother's Day and Father's Day, which was wonderful! It used to be very depressing (to me anyways), when Mother's Day came around because I always wondered if I would ever get to be a mother.
I usually don't talk about this a lot but for those of you who don't know the details here's a little info: When I was 16 doctors told me that I may never be able to have children.
For years it was hard not being a mother but I think I kept my sadness hid pretty well, but deep down all I wanted was a baby! Baby showers were horrible, only tearing my heart in two even more. Although I enjoyed looking at baby things, going shopping for baby showers often brought me to tears.... deep down I was hoping that one day I would be buying things for my own baby some day but not knowing if that day would ever come. It seemed like everyone around me was getting pregnant and honestly I kept thinking "Why them? They didn't even want a baby?...." Pathetic, I know! It was very hard but I just kept praying for the Lord to give me a baby and now we have a beautiful baby boy, Nathaniel, who is my heart and soul!
