Blue pants

Spring arrived for a few days and promptly left, but not before I pulled out my blue capri pants which are known as my fun pants. That sounds a bit weird, I know, but I have a tendency to announce "this is so fun!" on a regular occasion and my nephews lovingly tease me about it. At some point, I described my pants as "fun" because they are blue and thus, they became my fun pants. Guess what? Hunter has blue pants too and we took a picture sporting our fun pants together before I left for work. 

And then Jared captured a photo of Hunter and me being in love. 

The Hunter days continue to be very full. Jared went out with friends one night and Hunter I enjoyed a romantic dinner (not, please see below) of rice, red beans, roasted cauliflower, and peaches. We will work on manners prior to his first date. 

I try to save the really messy foods for dinner when he can go straight into the bath tub afterwards.

The kid continues to be quite happy and I am always extremely grateful. Bath time is a favorite time of day and he has taken to lying on his stomach in the water and either dunking his face in or lapping up the water like a puppy dog. He then munches on the shampoo bottle for awhile and will occasionally play with one of the toys before letting the water out of the tub and getting wrapped up in one of his hoodie towels.  

Jared sent me this picture the other morning about five minutes after I'd left for work. It does not take Hunter long to wreck havoc somewhere in the house and toilet paper is a current obsession. 

The days slip away as we are rapidly approaching Hunter's first birthday on Thursday. I was reading through old blog posts today and thinking about how different life was without a child. I feel such a sense of joy at the addition of Hunter and yet the frustration of new limitations remains at times as well. We had lunch at Warren and Jackie's house today and I delighted in seeing my family love on Hunter and Hunter's joy at exploring a different house. Yet, I felt frustrated by trying to eat with one hand and take care of a child with the other. I felt frustrated by wanting to relax into conversation with my brother and sister-in-law or watch youtube videos with my nephews and instead, was trading on and off with Jared as we chased Hunter around the house and kept him safe. It is just such a different life experience. I don't feel resentful. I just feel sad at times that I can't have it all at the same time. 

Jared and I did hire a babysitter for tomorrow night and are headed out to a fancy dinner with Brad and Jennifer to celebrate Jared's acceptance into nursing school! We finally got the big envelope! I told Jared that we would know whether or not he was accepted based on the size of the envelope. No program has much to say if the answer is no. Every program has a lot to say about when to start paying them money money money when the answer is yes.