Sweet Baby Love

A few nights ago, Dave and I had a date night at a friend's house. We had dinner, played games (and won!) and generally had a nice evening. My mom came over to watch Fin and by the time we made it home, he had been asleep for a couple hours.

We crawled into bed alongside him as usual and went to sleep. He's been nightweaned for a couple months now, but I do usually still nurse him before bed, so I had already decided I would nurse him when he woke up in the middle of the night even though that's not our normal routine anymore.

Most nights he will sit up in bed somewhere around 2am, rub his little sleepy eyes, crawl over to me, cuddle and go right back to sleep. This evening, however, he woke up at 2:30, rubbed his little sleepy eyes, looked around and realized he had mommy and daddy on either side of him (which he didn't have when he cried himself to sleep a few hours earlier) and just GRINNED like his biggest dream had come true.

He crawled over to me, grinning his huge sleepy baby grin and then laid down to nurse. He nursed for a few minutes then pulled off, looked up into my face and said "Mamama!" and then blew me kisses!

He went back to nursing but pulled off to say "mama" and blow me kisses another 2-3 times before he fell back asleep.

Needless to say, I was a big mushy puddle of mama-love. It really knocks my socks off how sweet and loving this kiddo is.