Moving On

Dear Conrad,

From February 16th to March 16th was a very stressful time in your life. Daddy's big Master's recital was rapidly approaching. The weather was making up for the lack of snow in December and January by overdoing it in February and the beginning of March. Then jobs for the next school year started popping up, and we had to jump on those quickly.

As much as I loved (and still love) Columbia, we were ready to be back home in Arkansas. We had a lot of big ideas about where we were going to settle down and where you would be raised.

Several months later, I can now say that none of it turned out like what we thought it should, but we are satisfied with how it did turn out.

My Favorite Photo: 4th Month

Dear Conrad,

This picture isn't really anything special. It's a little blurry, and a bit yellow. It was taken at the Applebee's in Columbia after we had come back from Arkansas. But it's special to me.

Whenever we went out to eat when you were this small, Daddy would take you out and hold you. You always liked sitting at the table with us. If we tried to keep you in your car seat, you would start to cry because you wanted to be part of whatever we were doing. While we were holding you, you would just take in everything. You never cried when we were eating out when you were this small (unless you were hungry, but we were always prepared and were able to stop the crying quickly.)

This picture also reminds me just how much your daddy loves you. Whenever he came home from school, one of the first things he wanted to do was hold you. You were his special little buddy.