The Quiet Life of Violet

To my Bubby on his birthday.

 

Lessons Learned: Being a Mother

 [My new natural habitat]

Things I've learned so far:
(There are positively more, but my sleepy fog head prevents me from using my brain to its full potential.)

 

•  It really IS different when it's your baby... the poop, the drool, the sleep loss, everything. There's no question, you just do it because you must.

• You really can love and strive to protect with a fierceness somebody that you just met.

• Newborn babies really DO take up the whole day. An hour here or there while he's sleeping becomes a mad rush to get things done and feel a little bit of normalcy.

• You will have to decide between taking a shower and eating your food while it's warm.

• Your baby will inevitably wake up the second you sit down to eat dinner. You have three options: shovel your food into your mouth like a hungry dog and then tend to the baby, have one of you hold the baby while the other eats, or just let the baby cry. I've mastered eating like this furry little boy (second picture form the top).

• Even though I thought I did, I never knew how much I loved Dustin until I saw him tenderly take care of our baby.

• When you're tired and the baby is crying, you WILL make up or sing annoying/funny songs to get the noise to stop. Dustin has taken to humming THIS song.

• Your boobs suddenly become more than just sexy fun-toys.
  
  
• There is nothing sexual about breastfeeding your baby.

• You can have another person's pee (your baby's) on your clothes/blanket/in your hair and not care at all. 

• Diapers should grow on trees.

• Your boobs will leak when you least expect it. Wear nipple pads.

• Don't give people a definite time when you've got a newborn. Give them a two to three hour window for your arrival. 

• You really can make life better with a hug or a cuddle. 

• The baby really is worth all of the trouble. Seriously. 

• Life is even more amazing than I thought it could be. 

• I love being his Momma.

  

 

 

Flashback Fridays - The Little Men

 

Dear Squid-Kid: The Pee Fountain

    You hate having your diaper changed. Well, you hate the cold wipes and I don't blame you. You also hate being wet in general. Pee-pee diapers are your number one enemy as of late.

[Proof:]


On Monday, Daddy was changing your little diaper when you felt the need to go again. Poor you -- you had poop on your tooshie and a huge wet diaper and you really couldn't hold it anymore so you let your pee free -- all over your shirt, the changing pad, Daddy's pants and the floor.

 

We weren't even mad, Squiddy. We were impressed!
But then again, how could anyone be mad at you when you've got a face like this? I so love your Snoopy-Boopy nose.

Love you,
Momma

This Is Love

My heart couldn't be any happier.

 

We Are Feeling

 Simply:

 

 
This little boy has changed not only our lives, but our hearts as well.

When people used to tell me that everything would be different after a baby, I'd brush it off.

It's really true, though, in the best way possible. In a way you probably didn't even know WAS possible.

Our hearts are  still soaring across the universe.

 

p.s. ~ He was too small to fit into his newborn sized clothes, so my Mom and I went to Babies R Us and got him some preemie outfits.

I DIE!!