The Simple Wife

On Monday the weather decided to cool just enough for me to justify turning on the oven and baking chocolate chip cookies…something I really miss when it’s too hot to bake. Robbie happily pulled pots and pans out of their drawer and banged them on the kitchen floor until I had almost finished mixing up the batter. And suddenly…he noticed mommy doing something that looked more exciting than what he was doing! So I put him up on the counter so he could “help”. I gave him one of the beaters to lick and the next thing I knew he was trying to re-dip it in the bowl! He quickly decided that sticking his whole hand in the bowl gave him even more cookie dough, and before I knew it, not only my baby, but also my kitchen cabinets and counter were smeared with cookie dough.

Over the last two days we have both more than satisfied our cookie cravings. Robbie enjoyed having a cookied tacked onto breakfast, lunch, dinner and anytime inbetween that he could get his hands on one. Here’s some pictures of my little cookie monster.

Staying busy while mommy started the cookies

Yummy!

Cookie dough everywhere!

What a difference a year makes! Last year at this time I was in the hospital looking at my four day-old baby hooked up to an IV underneath a blue light, and today he is a happy healthy one year-old. Praise God!
Last year at this time I never imagined the joy it would bring me when he crawls into my lap and lays his head on my shoulder, to see him gaze in wonder at an object and then reach his pudgy hand out to grasp it. To hear him laugh hysterically when mommy or daddy tickles him; to see a huge smile spread across his face when I walk into a room. Ahhhhhh…I love being Robbie’s mommy!
In honor of his first birthday he got scrambled eggs for breakfast, taco bell for lunch, birthday cake, presents, phone calls from family, and tons of attention from mommy and daddy (wait–he gets that all the time!).

July 14, 2008

July 10, 2009