Before the new baby comes I just want to hold some moments close to my heart. Stop time in its tracks, and freeze my life for a few seconds. Especially my life with you. You’re still the best part of my days. I still love watching your eyes slowly flutter shut a few times before you finally allow yourself to fall asleep. I love watching the way you drink, and the way you eat. I love the way you have become a miniature human who helps more than I ever thought you could at just three years young. I love the way you problem solve and I love the way you stand your ground. I love the way you ask me to snuggle you. I love tubby time together. I love when you tell me the most detailed stories. I love your memory. I love how empathetic you are. And how excited you get. I love the wonder inside your mind. I love the way you make my mind stretch and bend in ways I never thought possible. I love your light brown hair that gets kissed with ginger in the summertime. I love your muddy green eyes. Your little gritty voice is my favorite sound on God’s green earth. I want you to know I prayed for all of these things. I love when you flip your pillow over because you like the cold side best. I have adored you long before I ever even met you, and in between every second we have shared together and apart, my love for you only grows deeper, and wilder, and more 🙂 I love the way you speak. How you annunciate your words. Sometimes I don’t even correct you when you say something in your own little way, because it’s too cute to let go just yet. The way you talk with your eyes. The way you throw your hands around my neck and underneath my hair when you really missed me because I worked that day. I love when you pull me and daddy in close to you and hug us with all your might. I love the way you show love. I love the way you explain something with such animation. Your dance moves are crazy. I love the way you want to be daddy’s shadow. I love that you want to come to work with both of us. Do you know that whenever we’re away from you, all we do is talk about how much we love you?! I love how you never cease to amaze me in all the small ways you show me just how brilliant you are. I think you’re smarter than me. I am always in awe of you my favorite little buddy. You’re about to become a big brother, and your world as you know it, will change. If only for a little while, until you forget all together, it was ever just you me and daddy. I hope you always know how much I love you. How you created a new person inside me, the second I found out we created you. You have surpassed my biggest hopes and deepest wishes in only three short years and I cannot wait to see the little man you continue to become. You’re my lover boy, my special angel and my favorite human. I don’t know how my heart will be able to grow an entire world in size to hold more love for another little love just like you, but I know you’ll be there to help me learn how. You are an amazing and beautiful little creature of God, and I thank him every day for choosing me to be your mama. I love the way you laugh, and still tear up when you cry. I love the way you run out the front door when the ice cream man is coming down the street, and hold one finger up and yell “one minute!!” I love all the little things you do that I’ve kept precious track of. You’re a blessing every day to me and to everyone who meets you. I know in the next phase of our journey together you’ll continue to amaze me, and I can’t wait to give you your best friend for life. Mama loves you forever little du!