Love Every Minute......

As I was putting a second coat of paint on our bathroom yesterday, I had a random playlist playing music on my cell phone. I've always liked to believe that everything happens for a reason and things happen when they need to happen. And that it all happens in God's timing and for whatever reason you need to hear that/see that/feel that, in that very moment. So as I'm painting away, Brad Paisley's "Anything Like Me" comes on. I remember hearing this song shortly after Karson was born, I particularly like it because it makes me smile thinking that Justin just might get his "payback.":) As this songs playing I hear the pitter-patter of little feet running towards the bathroom and all I could do was smile. That moment hit me very hard, I felt like I had taken a mental image to hold on to forever. I remember when I was newly pregnant, I had so many people giving me so many "tips" and "ideas." I think the best advice I was given though was to love every minute. I embraced pregnancy and loved every minute. Even when my Mom was making me walk laps around and around the school gym and go up and down the stairs over and over again because she wanted that baby out! I told "Teeny Bean" when we left that he/she could stay in there for as long as they wanted! I loved having him so close and so protected. After Karson was born I remember all those moments when I'd be sooo tired......but I remember holding that new born little baby in my arms and Trace Adkins "You're Gonna Miss This" would play over and over again in my head. I think that was God telling me to "love every minute." Every day I watch Karson and love to see everything that he's learning. It absolutely amazes me. It's all those little moments that are little miracles. It's all of those moments whether I'm loving him to pieces or wanting to pull my hair out that make me take a step back. So what if he wants to flush the toliet over and over again and pull down the entire roll of toliet paper or get into the bathtub and turn the water on when he's in his clothes! So what if he wants to dip aka soak his carrot in ranch dip and then run all over the house with ranch dip dripping all over the place! I'm learning to pick my battles with him. He loves getting to dip his veggies into ranch. So what if he is getting a little ranch dip everywhere!! At least he's eating his vegetables right!?!? I figure if he's not endangering himself and not causing too much mass destruction of our house and it's making him happy, then just embrace it and love every minute because those moments aren't going to last forever and chances are......I'll probably even miss them. Other Moments that I've been Loving...... One day I saw that Barney was on TV so I wanted to see Karson's reaction. Anyone who knows Karson knows that he does not sit still for long. He is one busy little boy who has lots of learning and things to get done every day. But when he saw Barney on TV he just stopped. He watched the remainder of the show!! And when it was over Barney was saying "Bye" and Karson started waving back at him. And when it was over he started to fuss, pointing at the screen saying "uh....uh!! So I said to him, "yep, Barney's over" as he starts to cry, pointing at the tv he says "Bar! Bar" looking so sad that it was over. Every day now Karson wakes up, we go to the refrigerator, I pull out his whole milk and his apple juice even though I know what he'll pick because he always picks apple juice!:) He then proceeds to the living room gets up on the couch with the remote and waits for me to join him so that he can give me the remote to put Barney on!!:) I love that it's become his little routine. It's like Justin said, "it's like he knows Barney is his show." Karson loves to vacumm so we got him his own little toy vacumm. The other day I asked him if he wanted to vacumm and that he needed to pick up his toys. He immediately runs over to his little vacumm, picks it up and puts it away where I normally keep it! I was so impressed!! One day we were reading a book, another thing Karson loves! He brings books to everyone saying his best version of "book" "book." As he'll climb on your lap to read it. He loves to point out and say mostly everything that starts with a "B." "Ball" "bat" "bird" "balloon" etc. The book we were reading had a Mom and Dad riding in a car so I asked him where the Mommy was...... he stopped looked up at me, smiled and pointed at me! It melted my heart to pieces:) All I could do was smile and say yes, I'm your Mommy. His funny but not so good moment was yesterday. We have 4 kittens at our house right now. Two that are ours and two that are going to Mom and Larry's once they're big enough. He loves trying to hold those kittens and bless their little hearts they let him catch them. Normally he just tries to pack them around. They're kittens but they're not that little any more. Anyways I caught him multiple times yesterday trying to make those kittens ride his trike! I would laugh inside and then go tell him no! So he decided to move on from making them ride his trike. The next thing I know I'm looking out and he has one of them in their water bowl! The poor kittens entire backside was soaked, luckily it was HOT outside! Maybe he was trying to help?? He knows so much and is accomplishing so many things. It really makes me stop and think about how precious all the time I get to spend with him is. I feel so blessed that I get to see all of these little moments. Whether they're naughty or making me melt they're all so special and I'm loving every minute.