Day 26 — A child I love
This one is probably going to be pretty obvious, 'cause it has to be one of my kids. So I'll pick Shelby. Partly because I take FAR to few pictures of her. I spent some time in the past few days reading back on our blog since Ben was born and I took so many pictures of Ben (though many of them are lost between here and there and different computers and hard drives) and was way more detailed in his life and the challenges we had with him. I've said it before and I'll say it again. The first few years of Ben's life were a real challenge and trial for us. I look back at all that happened and we are SO blessed in our life now and the things we have and the ability I have to stay home. I always wonder if those times and trials were really just Heavenly Father's way of telling us that if we had enough faith for me to stay home with our kids he would bless us.
So anyway, back to the child I love! Shelby is an amazing little baby. She's almost 9 months old and incredibly independent. She pulls up on everything, spends most of her days exploring our house and playing with Ben. They can seriously entertain each other in their bedroom for half an hour or more before Shelby falls down and bonks her head or Ben tries to smother her. It's really more than I could ever ask for. She's still a handful, crawling everywhere and eating anything she can find, but she's incredibly alert and aware of what's going on around her. I just love her. She's skeptical before she smiles, she pulls up on everything to get a better view, she stands up in her crib and talks to Ben at night when they're supposed to be going to sleep, and she's eased up a little on the screaming. She's just awesome.
This is Shelby standing up in her crib. We dropped it all the way down to it's lowest point once she started pulling up on it. I have a feeling she will be the kind of kid that will learn to crawl out of her crib. Ben never did, and we switched his crib to a toddler bed before he really had the chance.
On another note, part of the reason why I don't take very many pictures is because 1. I spend a lot of my time editing other people's pictures and find it hard to edit my own and 2. Our house is the worst house for picture taking, dark, small, etc. We recently purchased a flash to use at weddings (since our cameras do not have built in flashes) and it makes picture taking in our house so much easier. I could use the point and shoot but the pics with my camera just look so much better. So hopefully this will encourage me to take more pictures!
