Eight Months Old, and "I Will Never"

Cece is eight months old (as of August 10th). After being a mom for eight months, there are definitely some things that make me laugh when I think back to moments in my life when I thought to myself, I will never. . . . Now, I was wise enough to know that my I will nevers were ideals. And, for the sake of humor I have added some things that I have done, but I don't think I ever said I will never; however, it is still surprising to me that it's just normal for certain things to happen.

I will never let my child play with my cell phone (I'm on the landline with an important person, Cece starts to fuss, I hand her my cell phone and say, "here chew on this")

I will never leave the highchair dirty (after cleaning it 100 times, I think to myself, she's going to eat in four hours anyway, no use in cleaning it now)

I will never let my child crawl around on the floor of a store (finding amazing deals at a consignment shop, don't have the stroller, it's in the car, Cece is grabbing at all the hangers, I put her down and smile as she crawls around)

I will never leave food on the floor (do you know how many Cheerios I have picked up in the last two months?)

The list goes on . . .

Some things don't really matter--a few Cheerios on the floor or a drooled cell phone, for example. Some things do though--they matter to me--like that Cece gets good sleep, and that she eats well, and on and on. So, I continue to think about Cece getting older, and my list of I will nevers continues on--I will never let her . . . .

Seven Months Old (Almost Eight)

Cece: Six Months

The Lake

One of my (Aleisha's) favorite places on earth is a little lake in central MN called Dade. My aunt and uncle live on this lake, and they live eleven (if I remember right, I timed it) minutes away from my parents. So that means, on a warm summer day (I didn't say hot because it only took warm), my brothers and I would hop in the car and in eleven minutes, we essentially had our own private lake! Mind you, it is smallish, but we were able to everything we needed to: swim, water-ski, slalom, dive, jump off the dock, fish, and skinny-dip (my cousin Melanie and I that is--it would make our brothers so made because we really were hogging the whole lake then!).

Well, this summer, I got to bring Cece into the lake! It is an amazing thing to share what you love with your child. I just didn't know how much I would love it. She's kind of young, so she didn't get to experience the whole of it, but she did get a taste (and I mean, literally!).