What I've learned....
In the last (almost) year of being a parent:
(well I could really count the length of the pregnancy too since that is really the start of being a parent--thinking for 2, making decisions for 2, eating healthily for 2, getting proper medical care for 2, etc. From the moment of the double pink lines you've got a new #1 in your life). But, just a few things for you non-parents out there.
1. Cupcakes are the new birthday cake. And the cakes they get to devour on their 1st b-day actually have an official name: "smash" cake.
2. Socks? Eh, who needs 'em. 30 degrees outside? Heaven's no! Why wear them when they taste better than they look?
3. Brushing only 8 tiny teeth--a lot harder than it sounds.
4. Sucking snot out of a sick baby's nose--not easy or fun. Nope. Not at all.
5. Letting baby watch in bathroom mirror while you suck snot out of his nose--completely fascinates him. He actually lets me do this gross job w/o a fuss if he gets to watch what's happening. Is this not odd to anyone else?
6. Sweet potato barf does not come out of carpet. And the apt is worried about the dog??
7. If you think you'll be inundated w/ unsolicited parenting advice when you're pregnant...just wait.
8. This is in no way parenting advice. I don't think I'm technically qualified as of this writing.
9. I've learned the words to every annoying children's song & like it, only because nothing's better than singing a stupid song & doing a silly dance & making my baby laugh hysterically.
10. He looks older and somehow wiser when he sleeps & then I realize he grew up during the day while I was at work. But he's peacefully asleep & I don't dare wake a sleeping baby, no matter how much I'm dying to get back those lost 8 hours of the day with him.
Unfortunately, I realize many of you may not find quite as much sentiment or humor in this now...but one day....one day, you'll be making a bottle & turn your back for 2 seconds, only to discover a mere fraction of a moment later that your 10 month old just found something really cool to play with--in the garbage can (you didn't even know his arms could reach that far!).... aaand he just put whatever it was in his mouth.... aaand, you stick your finger in his mouth to fish it out only to be bitten with quite an unexpected ferocity from such a little thing & you'll ask yourself if you have a child or an animal.... Then, only then, will you get this.
(well I could really count the length of the pregnancy too since that is really the start of being a parent--thinking for 2, making decisions for 2, eating healthily for 2, getting proper medical care for 2, etc. From the moment of the double pink lines you've got a new #1 in your life). But, just a few things for you non-parents out there.
1. Cupcakes are the new birthday cake. And the cakes they get to devour on their 1st b-day actually have an official name: "smash" cake.
2. Socks? Eh, who needs 'em. 30 degrees outside? Heaven's no! Why wear them when they taste better than they look?
3. Brushing only 8 tiny teeth--a lot harder than it sounds.
4. Sucking snot out of a sick baby's nose--not easy or fun. Nope. Not at all.
5. Letting baby watch in bathroom mirror while you suck snot out of his nose--completely fascinates him. He actually lets me do this gross job w/o a fuss if he gets to watch what's happening. Is this not odd to anyone else?
6. Sweet potato barf does not come out of carpet. And the apt is worried about the dog??
7. If you think you'll be inundated w/ unsolicited parenting advice when you're pregnant...just wait.
8. This is in no way parenting advice. I don't think I'm technically qualified as of this writing.
9. I've learned the words to every annoying children's song & like it, only because nothing's better than singing a stupid song & doing a silly dance & making my baby laugh hysterically.
10. He looks older and somehow wiser when he sleeps & then I realize he grew up during the day while I was at work. But he's peacefully asleep & I don't dare wake a sleeping baby, no matter how much I'm dying to get back those lost 8 hours of the day with him.
Unfortunately, I realize many of you may not find quite as much sentiment or humor in this now...but one day....one day, you'll be making a bottle & turn your back for 2 seconds, only to discover a mere fraction of a moment later that your 10 month old just found something really cool to play with--in the garbage can (you didn't even know his arms could reach that far!).... aaand he just put whatever it was in his mouth.... aaand, you stick your finger in his mouth to fish it out only to be bitten with quite an unexpected ferocity from such a little thing & you'll ask yourself if you have a child or an animal.... Then, only then, will you get this.
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