Feelin' the Love

I feel so happy right now. Like simply full of joy. I'm listening to Michael Buble and holding a happy Joseph on my lap. He smiles real big every time I lean over and kiss him on the cheek and it is really just enough to make me want to gobble him right up! He should be napping and I should be showering, but since neither of us is doing what we should be, then we're blogging!

A power line caught on fire this morning so we were powerless for a few hours. I couldn't help but think about how grateful I am for electricity and then while I was thinking along those lines, I was also grateful for other things that I hardly even think to be grateful for like running water, mirrors, hot water heaters, heat vents...

Valentine's Day was fun. I made a DELICIOUS quiche for breakfast with spinach and sun dried tomatoes. Seriously, it was so yummy. And I peeled a grapefruit perfectly and made toast from our homemade honey wheat bread. We spent the day with John's sister and brother in law looking at the Parade of Homes. Okay, so the house with the basketball court, racquetball court, putting green and climbing wall in the basement? Yeah. A-MAZE-ing. It was over 15,000 square feet and surprisingly is only 3.5 million dollars with ALL the furnishings! In the evening we joined up with some more of John's family and had dinner at Olive Garden. I had the Tour of Italy and was in heaven. After dinner we rented a few movies, but only watched one. And I think I fell asleep before the end. John gave me a beautiful boquet of red roses and I gave him this framed picture that Tim took. John hadn't seen it before, so it was a surprise to him and he loved it.

Joseph fell asleep like this the other night:

We forgot to bring his binky with us on Sunday. We were sitting by another young couple with a little girl who's about a month younger than Joseph. She offered us this from her diaper bag saying she doesn't use it and was going to throw it away.

And I swear, Joseph likes this binky much better than his other ones, so thanks Katie!

Joseph is getting stronger at holding his head up and does so for a little bit longer periods. We got some cute shots of him yesterday. I was just snapping a whole bunch and then when I was looking at them, I realized I had captured his face perfectly in the little mirror on his mat!

And John took this one later last night. He's turning into quite the photographer, wouldn't you say!? I guess it's not too hard when you've got such cute subject material. :)

And last of all, according to our bathroom scale, Joseph is weighing at least 10 pounds now.

Oh yeah. I want to recommend a children's book to all my readers who have little infants. I'll lay down on the floor with Joseph and we read this one together. He LOVES it. His eyes never leave the pages and he coos at it too while I'm reading. Obviously it's the pictures, not the storyline that captures his attention so. You can see a little preview of it by clicking on the picture of the cover. I found this little beauty at the DI.