things i love

 I feel the need to post a very mushy post about the things I love.  So please, bear with me while I post this, because I want to look back on this someday and remember these days that are going by way too fast!

• I love hearing my boys wrestle and play and giggle in the living room while I'm cooking dinner.  Cody is all boy and it is so fun to listen to the laughter and excitement that Doug and Cody make while they play together. 
• I love that Doug is an amazing daddy to our son (which I knew he would be).  I am finding it bittersweet though, that Cody has become his daddy's boy.  Anytime daddy is around, he wants him!  But, I can't complain...the two of them together is about the cutest thing I've ever seen :)
• I love that Cody loves tractors!  His love for them has not come from us pushing them on him, but they are a part of his everyday life.  He sees them all the time because that's what daddy does for a living.  He gets so excited when he see's a combine, tractor or the excavator and says "tactor" and jumps with joy when he gets in and rides with daddy in any of the equipment.  His favorite toys at home are "tactors" and he makes driving sounds as he rolls them across the floor.  He is already following in daddy's footsteps.
• I love that I have been able to feel Oscar move since I was about 15 weeks along.  It started as what I call "fish" movement, and by 18 weeks, Doug was able to feel the kicks that have started (which is wonderful, because Cody didn't feel the need to let daddy feel him kicking away until 24 weeks!).  Every time I feel my little one moving around, I feel so blessed :)  Oh how I missed being pregnant!
• I love that I picked a German name to call our new little one without doing it on purpose.  Oscar was the first name that popped into my head to call him/her.  And Doug & I were talking about it not long ago and realized that it is Germanic.  It is funny because when we were expecting Cody, Doug had always told me since we were 16 that he wanted to name a son Wolfgang.  This is why Cody was called "Wolfie" in womb.  So, it's fun that we have also used a German name (Doug's heritage) again. 
• And last, but NOT least, I love that I love my husband a million times more now that we have a family of our own.  I never thought it possible to love Doug more than I did when we got married.  But that love grew over the years.  And when we welcomed Cody into our lives, that love continued to grow, and continues to grow once again that we have Oscar coming.  I am truly blessed.