11 months old

Hi Easton...it's Ama.

Today you were 11 months old! In just one more month you will celebrate your first birthday. As a matter of fact, Papa and I just got our invitation to your birthday party today. While I am excited to help you celebrate your first brithday, I am also a little sad to see our little baby boy growing up so fast. I know we can't stop the clock and keep you little forever, but time just passes too quickly to suit me.

This past month you have been a busy little boy learning to walk. You have spent the last 30 days practicing your walking skills and spend every waking minute walking and walking. You are getting much more steady and you are certainly done with the crawling unless it is to get to a standing up place. You are not yet ready to stand up without support, tho you can do it when you forget that you want help getting up. It is so much fun watching you toddle around here, making the circle from the kitchen thru the den and living room back to the kitchen. You are always in such a hurry and start walking so fast sometimes that you tumble and fall. But that doesn't stop you. You just get right back up and off you go. The hardest part of having you up on two feet is that you are always falling and bumping your sweet little head, and I just hate that! No matter how much I try to keep you from hurting yourself, it just seems that it happens before I can prevent it. Sometimes it doesn't phase you, but other times, it really hurts and you can't help but cry and cry. But all of your practicing is beginning to pay off because you are doing better and better every day.

I know this next month will go just as fast as the past 11 months have gone, and you will officially pass from being an infant to a toddler. You are an amazing little guy, and the sunshine of my days.

I love you, Sweet E.
Ama

Happy New Year, Sweet E

Hi Easton...it's Ama,

Happy New Year, Baby E. This is your first New Year celebration and it comes just a month and a half before your first birthday. The time is going so fast and you are just growing by leaps and bounds...already walking and just a bundle of joy. You are such a happy little guy most of the time and cheer everybody up that comes around you. I am looking forward to getting back into our routine here at Ama and Papa's house when school starts up again for Mama and Daddy. Your great grandmother is here, too and she is looking forward to being here for a little while so she can get to know you better. We will have a good time this first week of the new year. Your cousin Austin is still here and you just love to follow him around. He is a little impatient with you and doesn't always want your attention, but that will get better as you both get older. He is learning to share with you and to not be rough with you. I am hoping that you will be great friends when you get older.

Your other cousin Daniel was at your house for New Year's Eve, and you got to spend some time with him today at your Nana and PawPaw's house in Waco. They love having you too. You are such a lucky little boy to have so many people who love you so much.

My hope for you is a great 2009. There will be so many changes in the months to come in your growing and learning new things. I can't wait to see what new things you'll be doing each and every day.

I love you sweet boy! See you soon.
Love,
Ama