2 Mo.
He smiled for the first time yesterday and it was so shocking to see because it felt real - I've been told it might have just been gas, you know, or something little like that, and maybe it's just that I want to believe it's real because it was a rather cute smile...
Being a mother has been so much work - but I knew that going into everything; I knew that it would be a lot especially on top of working (I went back a couple of days ago) so it wasn't too much of a surprise but what I didn't realize was how truly wonderful it would be. I knew that this baby would be mine and I knew that I would love him but I didn't realize that parenting would be funny, from just not knowing what I'm doing to the little sounds he makes, and really sweet like when he falls asleep on top of my chest as I'm putting him to bed for the fourth time in a night.
And this smile (if I am going to believe that it actually is a smile) - it means that there's truly a person inside there, a person who has a sense of humor and a personality, someone who I can get to know - and that is so amazing.
Overall, being a single mother hasn't been too bad... except for the one time when I was changing him on top of my desk and my computer happened to be nearby... and he pooped and the poop got on the computer... that was absolutely disgusting. And it would have been nice to have another person around to wipe the computer off while I changed him. But it all turned out okay - the computer was closed when the poop debacle happened so nothing drastic occurred and within fifteen minutes everyone (including me) was cleaned up.
Right now, he's sleeping and I've finished prepping food for the next couple of days so that I can get more work done at home. I've started working from home far more just so that I don't have to find a daycare or a permanent babysitter for now - we'll see if I need to change that in the next couple of months, but for now it's all working out well.
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Being a mother has been so much work - but I knew that going into everything; I knew that it would be a lot especially on top of working (I went back a couple of days ago) so it wasn't too much of a surprise but what I didn't realize was how truly wonderful it would be. I knew that this baby would be mine and I knew that I would love him but I didn't realize that parenting would be funny, from just not knowing what I'm doing to the little sounds he makes, and really sweet like when he falls asleep on top of my chest as I'm putting him to bed for the fourth time in a night.
And this smile (if I am going to believe that it actually is a smile) - it means that there's truly a person inside there, a person who has a sense of humor and a personality, someone who I can get to know - and that is so amazing.
Overall, being a single mother hasn't been too bad... except for the one time when I was changing him on top of my desk and my computer happened to be nearby... and he pooped and the poop got on the computer... that was absolutely disgusting. And it would have been nice to have another person around to wipe the computer off while I changed him. But it all turned out okay - the computer was closed when the poop debacle happened so nothing drastic occurred and within fifteen minutes everyone (including me) was cleaned up.
Right now, he's sleeping and I've finished prepping food for the next couple of days so that I can get more work done at home. I've started working from home far more just so that I don't have to find a daycare or a permanent babysitter for now - we'll see if I need to change that in the next couple of months, but for now it's all working out well.
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