I've been inspired, so...

I'm going to start blogging even when I don't have pictures to post. Brock changes daily and I feel like if I don't write some of the little things down then I'll forget to tell you later, so cut me some slack if my first try is boring, I'll work on it.

So first of all, he is growing up so fast right now. He'll be turning 1 in a little over a month and its starting to freak me out. I just keep thinking - ok when I got pregnant I signed up to have a baby, right? What is this baby thinking turning into a toddler?! I'm loving every minute of it, but it is just starting to hit me that he's not going to stop getting older...ever... {sniff sniff}

Seriously though, he's adorable. I'm thinking that the stork may have gotten the wrong address when he dropped Brock off at our doorstep, but we are KEEPING him anyway!! Some of his new favorite things are:

1. Naptime.... Not because he likes to sleep, but because he's figured out that if he stands up in his crib he can pull the soft toy things off of his mobile and play with them, or stand up in his crib and bounce to the music in his mind, or just talk and sing as high and as loud as he can until his mom comes in to tell him that it really is time for nigh night, that wasn't a joke.
2. Letters. He has his name spelled out on the wall in his room and I'll point to each letter and say it's name and then tell him that it spells Brock. He'll keep pointing to it until I repeat the process about 20 times. He'd better know how to spell his name by kindergarten is all I have to say!
3. Say Jesus. He can audibly say the word which is amazing to me because most of the other words I try to teach him usually come out as dada, mama, or baba.
4. Watch Nemo. Finding Nemo is his favorite movie and he will watch it from the "first day of school" scene (I skip the beginning cause it makes me cry) until the very end of the credits... and if I try to talk to him while he's watching, he'll lean over and peek around my head so he still has a clear view of his movie. He even gets into some parts, like the part when all the fishes are saying "swim down", Brock will get really excited and yell right along with them. We decided it would be appropriate that his first birthday party was a Nemo theme. Or "Noono" as he calls it.
5. Flexing his muscles. I don't know if he saw his dad flexing in front of the mirror (hehe) or where he learned this one, but if anyone flexes their arms and grunts, he'll do it right back. It's a classic.

Well there's much more, but I have a feeling that if I keep going I'll never stop...

But I just have one more thing to say...I'm so glad that Brock has such a wonderful dad. He is so helpful with Brock, and has such a way with him. Sometimes I feel a little jealous that I'll never have the special bond with Brock that only a father and son can share, but I'm so glad that he has such a wonderful role model to look up to in his dad. I can always depend on Luke to pick up right where I left off when I have to go somewhere without them and Luke knows exactly what Brock's schedule is and what to do...it's really incredible. I'm so lucky to have two amazing boys in my life. I don't think I could love them more, but I know by tomorrow I already will.