The Ox meets The Tiger

Dear Ziggy,

Gong Hay Fat Choy! This means ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese. You celebrated your first new year this weekend and had a wonderful time with the Chins! You received a ton of red envelopes and gave out valentines and candies to everyone. 2010 is the Year of the Tiger and it looks like it’s going to be an auspicious year - your Daddy’s brother and his wife are pregnant due around the same time of the year you were born. You are getting a cousin and a little buddy to play with. Hooray!!

Ooh. There you go biting on your bottom lip again. You’ve been chewing on your fingers and drooling soo much lately. I think a few teeth will be making an appearance soon. You’ve been eating rice cereal for almost 2 weeks now and though you don’t love it, you are making progress. But sometimes you end up looking like you’re wearing a beard.

You grew out of your newborn diapers quite some time ago. Then you wore size 1 diapers, then size 2, and now you’re up to size 3! I feel like the time is starting to really fly by now. I need to go through your dresser once again and weed out all of the clothes you can no longer fit into.

You are getting more mobile and the days where I can put you down and leave the room then come back and find you pretty much where I left you are numbered. You are getting better at shimmying and inch-worming your way around and I think you will be crawling soon.

I look at pictures of you from when you were first born and it so hard to believe you’ve grown so big already.

You aren’t much of a cuddler, I am starting to find. But whenever I do have the chance to trick you into snuggling me (if only for a moment) I make sure to take advantage of it. The opportunities for this are less and less, especially since we have stopped nursing. Now I can understand why some mommies hold on to nursing for years and years. It’s a great way to steal hugs!

I’m beginning to realize that your baby time is going to end pretty soon. Soon you’ll be a toddler and then you’ll be a kid! I want to hold on to these last few months of your babyhood oh so tightly.

I love you so much it makes me bite my own lip, baby Daniel.
Mommy