My 1st Mother's Day (as an official MOM!)

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." Rajneesh

I spent my first Mother's Day in Knoxville, with a VERY new Mommy and her very new baby! Jeff, Noah, and I loaded up in the van and headed down to visit with Andy, Jessica, and Josiah. Yes, I know we were just there on Monday, but I had to go see Josiah again! They're only little like that for a short time... Andy and Jeff got a chance to go out Saturday evening, while Jessie and I stayed home with the kiddos. Jessie and I had a great time just being together and enjoying our little ones!

Saturday night we stayed in a hotel. When I first put Noah down in his Pack 'n Play for the night, he kept looking at me and just cried and cried. I thought he was probably used to not being able to see us in the middle of the night, and since he's so used to having his own space, I tried covering the sides of the Pack 'n Play with a blanket so he couldn't see us. As soon as the blanket was in place, he went right to sleep! It was so funny, because the next morning Jeff got up to go to the bathroom, Noah saw him, and started to fuss a bit. So when I needed to go, I crawled across the hotel room floor just so he wouldn't see me! (I was hoping to get a few extra minutes of sleep.) It worked! He didn't see or hear me and we were all able to sleep a tad longer! However, I was completely freaked out about bed bugs, and crawling across the floor did not help with that at all! I spent several minutes examining my skin, and scrubbing really well in the shower that morning! :)

On Mother's Day morning, we went back to Andy and Jess's house to spend a little more time with them. Noah was playing with Josiah's toys and having such a great time, that I could hardly get his attention long enough to look at Josiah. But, when I finally did get him to look at the baby, he grinned, laughed, and reached out to touch Josiah's hand. It was so incredibly precious!