Quickest month of my life...

Let's be honest.  No matter how many times he screams at the top of his lungs at 2am, pees in his own face, pees in your face, shoots rockets out his rear, cries a little more at 4am, spits his pacifier out of his mouth when you know he really wants it, chugs his milk faster than a mouse in a derby race, refuses to stop crying long enough to just take a picture, and wakes up screaming again at 5:45am, there is still a love so deep and a cherishing of those, sometimes few, quiet moments when he looks up at you and just stares and smiles.  It's a speechless moment in time that I wouldn't give up for the world.

He hit the big one-month mark today, and still changing more and more each and every day.  I was proud earlier, where though only for a short time, he's reached up and held his own bottle.  Apparently very displeased with how I was performing the task.

The reality of it is, it's the other VIP in my life that's made this last month possible.  Without her un-imaginable patience, loving smile, and willingness to do anything for her son it WOULD NOT have been possible.  Just trust me on that.  My hat is off to any father, rather by choice or not, that raises their children all on their own.  It's by no means a task that I would even want to think about, much less to become a reality.  Thank you Kimberly for the countless hours spent raising your son!  One day (and yes, probably already) he'll be grateful he was blessed enough to call you "mommy".

Harper Elliott.  You're the world to us.  Thank you for the most incredible month of our lives.