Snips and Snails

Someday's...like yesterday, I am in complete awe of my little boy. I am sure every mother feels this way but seeing Noah laughing, playing  and running around our yard is my cherry on top. When Noah was born we were in the processing of buying/building our house. In fact, my entire pregnancy with him we spent at least 3-4 days a week house hunting until my 8th month when we found this land/building opportunity. At the time it was all so exciting, a new baby and a new house although it turned extremely overwhelming real quick! In the first few days after Noah was born I told my husband that I didn't want to go through with this house. It was a reminder of all the excitement in the past and at that point I didn't want to see the future beyond the NICU walls. 

In the end we obviously went through with the house and life went on. 

This is our first summer living in the house. Long time blog readers will recall we moved in a few days after Noah's first birthday and had his party on our second day in this house which ironically was the one year anniversary of him coming home from the hospital.

Last night my husband was mowing the lawn. I was inside, hot and getting impatient. Noah was screaming " OwShy OwShy OWSHY"- he wanted to go outside. So we did, and it was beautiful. One of those simple stop and think how wonderful moments. The kind of moments I wasn't sure if I'd have. 

My sweaty stinking puppy dog is becoming such a little boy. Once upon a time I thought I wanted a daughter but seeing this little guy in all his dirty little boy glory on a hot summer night made me so happy that I got my snips and snails instead.