I am the mother of a Crawler

Is it possible to feel like this simultaneously?



I do. Please, let me begin by saying that I am counting my blessings. I have a darling little boy who is hitting milestone after milestone, and I couldn't be more grateful and proud. However.... It's really hot. And Hazen is making me really tired.


We've been having a BLAST spending almost every day at the pool. Hazen is good for about an hour, which I think is a pretty long time! I'm putting him in a Mom and Tot swim class because he keeps on dunking his head in the water, and I need to know what's ok, ya know? Sometimes instead of getting him dressed after our swim, we just throw him in one of our shirts, as is evidenced above!

So, back to the exhaustion that is my child:

Yesterday, I found him eating trash. He really has this puppy dog thing down.


When he takes baths, he's realized that he knows how to crawl in the tub. Real safe, Hazen. He even likes to dunk his face in the water and stand on his knees to knock off my shaving gel and dad's shampoo. (*Side note: Why dad needs shampoo is still beyond me after over 2 years of marriage)



TODAY, he went down the scary hallway all by himself until he reached the end of it, where the playroom sits. He's only been in there once, which was yesterday, so the fact that he remembered what was down there has been amazing me all day. What a smart baby I have! He played down there for about 45 minutes. As long as I heard him banging on things, I felt ok with him being down there!

In other news, Hazen had his first non-hospital related blood loss today. We were at Heather's house, and she threw him across the room. Kidding- he was trying to pull himself up on something, he slipped, and then split his lip pretty good. It was really sad- he had a fat lip for a while. He recovered from it pretty quickly though. Later on, he also was pushing on his highchair (yes, Mama forgot to lock the wheels), it slipped out, and he bonked his head on the tile floor. He now has a goose egg, and I have lost hearing in my right ear due to out of control screaming for a good 15 minutes. I'll be a more prepared mom tomorrow. Seriously, his getting into everything happened over night! He's so much fun though!!