Counting Your Blessings

I really liked Mom's post about counting your blessings. Her experience filling out the paperwork at the hospital remided me of when me and John went to the geneticist to have Ben tested again for Spina Bifida when I was pregnant. The list at that clinic is really long, and though we've each had family members with lots of health problems, I was glad that we didn't have to say Yes to anything on the list for ourselves (especially the question about incest, ick!) I'm grateful Ben was born healthy. We've seen his sense of humor develop over the last couple of months and find ourselves just laughing at the things he does every night. Even this morning he found the digital thermomether and sticks it in his ear, smiles, looks at me and hands it to me. So I take his temperature and he laughs at the beeping. It's amazing how quickly they pick up on the things around them and we are loving every last inch of him and his cute personality!