So Close....

I am complete denial that my baby toddler is turning 2 tomorrow! Don’t get me wrong – I am beyond excited to be celebrating his birthday and have been looking forward to it for months – even more, I cannot wait for his party on Saturday! I am in denial that he is getting further away from the baby stage and is fully embracing toddler-hood. I know, I probably just made up a word, but oh well. Luke and I are taking the day off from work tomorrow and we have a super fun day planned for our little man. Tomorrow is going to be all about him (I guess just like most every other day in our house, ha!) and he will have our undivided attention and I know he will just love it. We actually have a schedule – I know, I am a complete dork – but we’ll see if we make it to everything on time. I will be dragging the camera along to document so I can share it with everyone here.

drinking his first mug of hot chocolate this week.  yes, he is sitting on the counter.

In other news our downstairs bathroom remodel is almost done! I have a deal with my general contractor, aka Luke, to have it finished before the birthday party on Saturday so our lovely guests don’t have to trek upstairs to take care of business. But seriously, it is sooo pretty! Here is a before picture – the after pictures are coming soon and you will love it. Well, you might not love it but we do and that is what matters, right? Colin walks in there and tells Luke over and over “I like it, I like it, I like it”. Adorable, right? Yeah, he already knows how to butter us up.

official "before" picture of the downstairs bathroom.

 I know there are a million other things going on right now that I want to write down so I don’t forget them but honestly I am having a difficult time thinking about anything other than my boy’s birthday tomorrow and his party on Saturday. I mean, how do people expect me to work this week? Two years ago today I was checking into St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital so that my sweet boy could be evicted, aka induced since he was not coming on his own! To think about the excitement and nervousness we were feeling on this day two years ago gives me butterflies in my belly and makes me happy/teary at the same time. Little did we know just how much this sweet boy was going to change our lives – he is a million times better than we were hoping/imagining and I am so thankful God chose me to be his momma.