what I really need to do...

What I really need to do is write a post about Christmas - but there are so many pictures and it will take forever to upload them.

No - what I really need to do is re-re-re-re-do our budget and make room for all the things I'm remembering new houses don't come with.

No - Griffin is changing so quickly.   What I really need to do is write about how he started singing the ABC song 2 weeks ago and has. not. stopped.  I really need to video him singing it, how he always leaves out R and how he says, "now I know my ABC - DEFGHIJ..."  - and starts all over.  I need to write about how he started calling Micah "Bicah" instead of just "Ba."  Oh - and I need to tell how he keeps doing so well eating his broccoli and veggies, but won't eat macaroni and cheese.

I really need to write a post about what it's like to read a book with him.  How we have to talk about EVERYthing in the picture, and make all the sounds of the animals - even the ones who don't make sounds.  And how, really and truly, I tire of this but I do it anyway because I will blink and then he'll be reading on his own.

I really need to write down how good he's getting at puzzles.  And that he loves to tell all the girls in his class goodbye, but he doesn't like the boys too much. :)  And how if he hears the word "zoo" or hears the word "zoo" being spelled, we'll go to the zoo or we'll talk about animals for the next three hours.

I need to remember how his personality can seem obsessive - or persistent may be better.   How he gets stuck on things and will. not. stop. until he's answered or satisfied.  How he loves his cousins so much, that even though he has no idea what Skylanders or "scounds" are, he dreams about them, talks about them in the car, wants to draw pictures of them, and name his stuffed animals after them.

No - what I really need to do is post the videos of Griffin laughing at his daddy.  I should not hoard my recordings of that beautiful sound of laughter followed by, "Daddy funnnnnny!"  Oh - and how he's starting show compassion and sympathy when he believes someone to be hurt or sad.  It's soooo sweet.

No - I should really put the pictures on here of the letters he's drawing.  And list all the ones he knows and recognizes, upper case and lower case, and maybe a video of his mad counting skills....

I've got to write down how he loves to pile up pillows and stuffed animals and take a running leap into his pile and waller and waller until his face is red and then do it again.  How the animals have to be stacked just so and it's not enough for mommy to just stack them however they land....

No.  What I really need to do is TAKE A NAP while this busy, busy child is sleeping...but I'm just too busy remembering....