Happy Valentine's Day to all!!!
On a day that is solely devoted to the concept of love it's hard to think of much else, and all I can think about it how lucky I am. I am so blessed so have unconditional love from friends, family, my incredible husband and best friend, and two of the most precious little boys. This morning I was able to wake up the most amazing "love" moment a person can ask for. I woke up to hear JoJo in the shower so I decided to get up and start some breakfast and make him lunch. On my way to the kitchen I looked down at Jacob laying in his bed and all of a sudden, with such an excited burst of movement, he got a huge smile on his face and started kicking his legs and waving his arms. LOVE!!!!! Jo A. hasn't even woken up yet but I'm positive that I will walk into his room and find him standing in his bed and just the sight of me will bring a huge smile to his face, he'll start bobbing up and down, he'll grab his lamby and hug him, and then reach out for me. Once again......LOVE!!!!! I get to wake up to this every morning to this! I am so blessed! I am confident that as the day goes on this amount of love that is shown by my precious angels will not fade. Whether it is Jo A. kissing Jacob every 30 min., or if it's Jacob's constant smiles, or even when it's JoJo coming home from working a labor intensive 9 hour work day and still having enough energy to hug and kiss on me as soon as he gets home till we lay our heads down and go to sleep.
As a parent, it is so rewarding seeing this love that JoJo and I have and share with them pour out of their little bodies. Jo A. has become so attached to this little lamb of his. He always had to have something to go to sleep with but now he will go into his room in the middle of play time and yell for his lamby that is just out of reach in his bed. He even double fists it sometimes and will be walking around with lamby in one hand and his bear in the other. I learned that children around the age of one start to understand this concept of "love" that they see in their home. It makes me so happy to see him hug his lamby then hand him off to one of us to hug, and then grab him back and hug him once more. He is mirroring the love he receives from us. Even when I feel like all I am doing is telling him 'no, no' and making him cry because he can't get into everything he wants, he still feels the love through it all.
"All you need is love."
