Welcome to 2012!

A new year, which means it is time for new resolutions.  One of my big ones for 2012 is to keep a better record of my time with my 18 month old son, my little buddy.  Time is going too fast; he is already a year and a half!  Because I really want to preserve my memories of the wonderful times I get to spend with him, I am taking the 365 day challenge (well, 366 since it is a Leap Year).  Each day I will endeavor to post a picture of my little buddy and record how our day went, along with my thoughts and observations of our time together.  I realize how lucky I am to be able to spend as much time with him as I want, and I really want to document this time, because I know it will be over much too quickly.

So, here is my first post.  Proving I at least started on Jan. 1.  I am sure it will take me a bit of time to figure this out, but if I can keep up with it, I think this will be worth it.  Now to get the ball rolling!

So here's my Little Buddy...

As I mentioned earlier, he is 18 months old and he really is a blessing in our lives.  My husband and I tried for nearly two years before we were blessed with a successful pregnancy.  I had every intention of keeping a detailed pregnancy journal, but I was still so skittish and unsure that this was it, this was really going to be our baby, that I just kept notes.  I felt that once we were comfortable that our pregnancy was going to be successful, I would sit down and turn the notes into journal entries.  As each week passed, we began to finally really believe that we would have our baby.  But then we were busy; actually being pregnant meant that we actually had to prepare for the baby.  Family cars had to be purchased, a nursery needed set up, and I needed naps.  Lots and lots of naps.  Through it all, I tried to keep up on notes for my pregnancy journal, but somehow those entries never got written.  I decided that I could write it once he was born, because obviously I would have so much time since I was leaving work and devoting myself to the baby.

God, I was naive.

Little Buddy arrived 3 weeks early and has kept me on my toes ever since.  You can prepare all you want, but you can never be completely prepared for how dominating a force a baby is in your life until said baby actually arrives and takes over your life with a vengeance.  Between diapers changes and learning how to nurse and stealing whatever minutes of sleep I could, the pregnancy journal did not get written.  Neither did my journal detailing his first year.  Guilt played at me enough that I did manage to keep his baby book up-to-date, but that just holds dates and quick observations, not the detailed memories I wanted to hold onto so badly.  I blinked and 18 months had gone by.  Eighteen months of wonder and changes and amazement and I felt like I was already starting to forget it.

So a resolution was born.  I hope that 2012 will be another great year for Little Buddy.  He's already starting with a bang.  He had a great day playing outside with Daddy and Uncle C, climbing into the chair like a big boy ready to watch football, and taking a nap on my chest.  These may just be little things, but they mean the world to me and I hope to document them more fully as the year progresses.  Cross your fingers for me!

LBM

Little Buddy's Mommy