Hegstrom Happenings: November 2011

I do take an excessive amount of pictures, but some things would be a sin to not be caught on camera...the other day I was doing who knows what and the two boys were in the living room bonding...the scene I came across was hysterical- apparently my little boy is a TV junky and a drunk...a milk drunk that is...

Pretty funny already...

Now a little closer...and a little funnier

Apparently a boy is never too young to take after his father...

Not sure at that angle how he can see the TV over his milk belly


He's pretty serious about the show

Well there you have it..now the thing is- I know that men bond in different ways than women so the fact that he is propped up watching TV with his Dad was no shocker but I just had one question for David...why on earth are his jammies unbuttoned down to his diaper...the response..."We were just playing with his belly button" The whole thing was a crack-up what can I say I have two funny boys!

I have come to the conclusion that having people to love, and them loving you in return gives life its savor. Growing up in a loving family you sort of naturally fall into this love and it's wonderful and beautiful, but the love you experience in the family that you and your spouse create together is something entirely different. The love David and I share is something that we try to work at every day and I can honestly say that MAN we are in love and it only gets better and better, and as we have enjoyed this little boy, this perfect little creation our love has deepened and expanded in a way I could never have understood before. I honestly didn't know I could love my husband any more and had no idea what it was to love a child. It takes everything out of you but gives you everything in return- it makes you work so hard for the simplest little achievements but leaves you completely fulfilled once they are reached. I feel so complete and so at home wherever I am with my husband and my little boy and I never knew I would feel that way especially since we move around so much, but it's true.
As David and I were coming back to our little apartment here in Boise after having visited family we were discussing how nice it was to have visited but how nice it was to be "just us" again and how complete we felt as a family- just the three of us. In the car on that drive home, it hit me exactly why it is that having this little boy makes us our own separate unit- this little Ethan is the first and only thing that we are not combining from his family or mine- but from just David and I. He has no prior traditions, experiences or memories outside of what we will create together. This little boy, our very own little boy- is just that- OURS, and though I know that he is only on loan from our Father in Heaven- and has divine parts from Him, he also has parts of his daddy and mommy- he is a product of our love and devotion to each other, and he completes us. I know why I can't get enough of him and why I am completely in utter adoration of his sweet little face and his double chin and every single chunky roll on his thighs and arms and that absolutely adorable gummy toothless smile- when I look at him, I see David's love for me, and God's love for me. You can't beat that feeling- so you just soak it up and thank Him every day for it. You live your life in such a way that you show your gratitude, and when you have kept it enough between you and your Heavenly Father- then you post it all over like I'm about to do so that everyone else knows. I LOVE love LOVE my husband and sweet baby boy...

I LOVE him when he's naked because I can count every little fat roll...


I love him when he's only mostly naked because I can still count almost every fat roll without the fear of a sneak attack from the super soaker- if you know what I mean