three month notes

[metaphortunate]

* I hate nights. I hate them. Each night lasts approximately 75 years and when the kid wakes up all bright and full of beans in the morning I am several generations older and yet somehow more tired than I was when I went to bed. I realize the solution to this is probably to go to bed earlier and yet when each night is decades' worth of tossing and turning and tedium it is extremely hard to make myself give up an even greater proportion of my precious time to it. Mr. E has been great about taking him in the morning so I can get another hour of sleep but still.

* The kid has a Sophie giraffe. This giraffe is basically the physical manifestation of my insecurities as a parent. He's still too young for toys, and we have a big ol' bin of toys that are just waiting for him to be old enough to be interested in them. More toys = not needed. And yet, when I take him to mom-baby yoga, at least half of the babies are playing with that damn giraffe. And somewhere in my brain I'm like, I guess this is a thing you have to have for your kid around here? Maybe he needs one? DDD:

* He does grasp it, though. HE GRASPS THE GIRAFFE. It is hard to overstate the level of excitement about that around these parts. This is a new development this week, where sometimes if we put the giraffe or this round teething rattle on his chest he will actually grasp it with his hands and put it in his mouth OMGWTFBBQ. \o/

* ALL THE SMILES OMG THE TINY BABY SMILES HOW DID WE MAKE A CHILD THIS HAPPY/ADORABLE/WONDERFUL/I HAVE ALL THE FEELINGS IN THE WORLD.

Comments

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, sleep deprivation. IME one really can't win when it comes to bad sleep dep and their moods; if they're happy, it's "you mock my pain!" and if they're grumpy it's misery multiplied.

But yes, grasping objects and social smiles! Interactivity FTW, yay!

[metaphortunate]

Interactivity RULES.

[spuffyduds]

The SMIIIIILES!!!! When it's suddenly obvious that the baby actually LOVES YOU!!! SO GREAT.

[metaphortunate]

He likes us. He really does. I am half all :DDDDDD and half all heartbroken because I am going back to work next week and thinking that he will not love us anymore, he will love his nanny. ;______;

[kate_nepveu]

I won't lie, I did miss not seeing every new development first-hand when SteelyKid went to daycare. OTOH I would be an awful stay-at-home parent and, though SteelyKid loves everyone at daycare, when the chips are down, it's still her parents she wants. (She says, having spent much of the afternoon attempting to scrape SteelyKid off, rather like a barnacle.)

Good luck with the transition.

[metaphortunate]

Weirdly, the barnacle is comforting. :)

[spuffyduds]

Oh, that's rough, but really, don't worry. He will doubtless be fond of the nanny, but parents are the only ones who smell Just Exactly Right to the baby. :)

[metaphortunate]

Thank you. :)

[amaebi]

Yep.

[badgerbag]

Eerie... i think my sister had that same giraffe in like 1975. Is that possible!???

[metaphortunate]

Absolutely! It's like from the 60s!

[thefourthvine]

I love the accomplishments of the early months. SMILES ARE SO AWESOME. PURPOSEFUL MOVEMENT IS SO AMAZING.

And nights - man, I hear you, is all I can say. It's hard to go to bed early when you know you are signing up for hours of torment. Um. *hugs*?

[lovepeaceohana]

Heeeee, baby smiles! Best thing about them, particularly when they are directed at you. We have this one photo of baby Lu at maybe a month? But with this tiny adorable smile on his sleeping face. I will see if I can dig it up and share it :3

The sleep deprivation, not so much. :( KK woke up at 7:30 this morning, having gone down at oh, around 10:30p, bright as a button, and promptly went poop so I had no choice but to wake and change him. And then he pooped again, because no way did he want me to go back to sleep, even though I'd been between our room, Lu's room, and the couch all night trying to snatch more than a couple hours before a tiny hand smacked me in the face and woke me. Oh, kid.

[dhara]

SMILEY BABY YAY! sorry about the sleep dep though. D:

*HUGS*

[wired]

There is something wired in to the babies that makes them LIGHT UP when we show up to pick them up. And I still get that when I get home from work. MOMMY! MOMMY'S HOME!

They know.