- The smell of newborn baby on those first days
-The smell and "fluffiness" of his hair after a bath
- When he was brand new in the hospital and would make the "puppy dog squeaks" in his sleep
- When he first learned how to nurse and would sooooo slooooowly eat with his hand up by his face
- When he was still trying to get the hang of nursing and would "hover" his mouth over the boob while looking up at me as if he was waiting for permission lol
- The times he would start nursing, then start sucking on his hand instead, then squeal in anger because there was no milk
- The times DH would hold him in the morning and he would literally try to latch onto him. ("Hey, I recognize that bull's eye, that's food right?")
- Sitting on the couch day after day watching daytime TV and wondering if baby will ever ever ever stop eating for just 15 minutes lol
- The times when I could not set him down without him getting all fidgety until he made himself spit up
- The times he makes a huge mess in his diaper and all over his clothes 5 minutes after he just got changed
- The messes he would make in the middle of a diaper change
- The times he would fart in his dad's face during a diaper change
-The way he stretches and kicks when passing gas as if it's an olympic event
- The times when his dad holds him and he looks toward me as if to say "Come on mom, I know you're over there; you're not fooling me!"
- The funny noises he makes, like when he yawns and goes "khhhhhooo"
-The times he makes one loud cry in his sleep, and then is still asleep (I wonder what babies do dream about)
- How he did not cry much at first and would just whimper or go "AYE!" and then wait to see if we'd come to him
- The new "words" he says. My favorite so far being "nnn-GEE-gee"
- His dad worrying that he was not "looking" at us, and then having him smile at us for the first time (6-20-12)
- The funny faces he makes at us, such as the "furrowed eyebrow of disapproval"
- The way he stares at himself in the mirror now that he's discovered it
- How much he loves being in his whale bathtub, and cries when we take him out
-How nerve-wrecking it was the first time I tried to cut his fingernails (it still is nerve-wrecking!)
- Reading "Good Night Moon" to him every night (never too early for literacy!) and seeing his eyes start to get droopy by the first time I read "mushhh"
- Singing lullabies to him
- The times he "sleeps in" with his dad in the morning while I get up and "refuel"
-The way he falls asleep while nursing or being held, and then wakes up and cries the second we try to lay him down elsewhere
- Wearing him in the MobyWrap and doing dishes or vacuuming so that the white noise could help him sleep for JUST A LITTLE BIT (because mom knows that he is tired and he just won't admit it)
- Wearing him in a front carrier and taking a walk down the street every day because we just needed to get out of the house and dad was gone with the car!
- How nerve-wrecking it was the first time we had to leave the house to go to an appointment
- How nervous mom got when taking him to a restaurant for the first time
- How people "ooh" and "aah" over him whenever we take him out and about
- How mom and dad always pack a ton of stuff in his diaper bag and never even touch it. Because we know the second we don't bring it is when we will need everything
- Getting comments when we went out such as "You're already taking him out of the house? You should have waited a month!" or "When I had my son I never left my house for 3 months. Only to go to the doctor and that's it"...and me wanting to tell them to mind their own dam business. (The latter comment was said to me when I was visiting my neighbor.....like right across the patio from my apartment. Sorry lady but I'm a mom, not a hermit!)
- How it is so sad yet cute whenever he gets startled by a loud noise while he's nursing. Once while DH turned on the blender and another time when I called out to DH that his phone was ringing....startled Anu so much that he "jumped" off the boob with a look of shock on his face, then gave the pouty lip and the most pathetic cry.
- The time he got scared at church when the sound system made a lot of static and started crying, and later people came up and said "Oh so he's the one who got scared!"....and me thinking "Yes, my child crying in church. I know I have many more years of this to look forward to"
- How flustered I would get at DH in the early days when he would ask "Why is he crying?" "Why is he doing that?" as if I was the instruction manual
- How happy DH and I were the first time he actually took a pacifier (he really only uses it for bedtime or sometimes naps)
- The look on DH's face the first time Anu took a bottle from him. (And the wave of relief that mom felt!)
- The first time I took a 3-hour "excursion" while leaving him home with DH and was irrationally freaking out the whole time that something would go wrong.
- Most importantly: how I fall so much more in love with him every day and can't seem to stop kissing him
I am going to try to update at least every 2 weeks if I can, now that I'm actually able to get a break for a bit! Here are a few highlights of the past 2 weeks:
- Two of my sisters and their SO's came to visit last week. It was so fun for Anu to get to meet other family members. We will be flying to Oklahoma in a couple weeks to meet the rest of the family.
- On Wednesday, Anu had his 2 month checkup. He weighed 11 lbs 5 oz. and measured 23.5 inches. The doctor said he was right in the 50th percentile! He also got shots, but the doctor said it's ok to stagger the shots because we didn't want him getting so many all at once. It was hard enough just watching him get each shot. One was Pc and one was a combo DTap, HIB, and polio. He had a slight temp spike later in the day but not too much fever, and was a little more fussy and irritable than usual. But with some baby Tylenol and a lot of extra TLC he was better. Next month he will get the rotavirus, but I am a little on the fence whether he should get the Hep B, even though he had the first round at birth and was fine.
-Yesterday, we took Anu to visit the RE's office during their lunch break. They were all so excited to see him. I realized that we had spent more time with that doctor than any other OB during my pregnancy, so it makes sense that everyone there seemed more excited about seeing the results of their work than other doctors who are just used to babies all the time. And the RE joked, "When you left here, you looked like a little kid. Now you look all grown up and maternal." DH said, "Well, but I'm still a kid though!" Lol. Someday we will go back to give our frozen embies a try. Someday.
