It is amazing to me to see the changes in my three month old every single day. He loves to try and hold items. If I’ve laid him down for a minute and pick him back up again, he’ll usually have whatever was next to him in his hand (usually a bib or burp cloth for his spit up ;). He tries to sit up so hard. He tried for an hour today while I typed articles for my freelancing service. He was laying on the bed next to me and just trying and trying to sit up. I helped him out a little bit… :) He still doesn’t like tummy time, but he will do it on a soft surface like our queen size bed. Of COURSE he’s always EXTREMELY supervised during this. We all know the dangers of leaving a baby on a high surface, especially a bed. Anyway, he’ll push himself up fully, and kick his legs a bit. Eventually he gets frustrated and gives up. I think that if there were more traction on the bed he might be able to do it! He is constantly moving and we’ve started to call him wiggle worm. We’ve decide he’s going to be hard to keep up with when he does get to crawling or walking. Speaking of that…he still loves to stand so much that we think he might skip crawling all together! I love him more each and every day.
Yesterday someone said to us, “Don’t you just wonder what you did before you had a baby!?” My husband and I both gave the expected giggle and nod. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but our *normal* activities haven’t changed very much! Now, don’t get me wrong, our lives were tremendously enhanced by our new smallest edition. We now have someone else to take care of, have to be less selfish, etc. But, we are so blessed with such an easy going baby that our daily activities have been able to remain fairly stable. Our baby will let us sit through the occasional movie, he’ll sit through me writing in this blog, he’ll sit through my husband playing video games. He’s content *most of the time*, and when he’s not, he’s easily comforted or quickly gets over whatever was wrong.
People said this about marriage too, that it would be so hard and the first year is the toughest and all that. I have to say, I didn’t find the first year of marriage all that rough either! Before you go on hating me, I must say that I am not naive enough to think that being a parent or wife will constantly remain steady and easy. I know there will be rough patches and as the little guy grows older he’ll require more and more attention (different than the constant holding and cuddling of the newborn stage). I know that my husband and I may not always agree on the best way to raise him. I suppose what I am trying to convey is that, no the things we do in our daily lives have not changed that much, but the reason for getting up in the morning and loving life has changed significantly.
