The Peanut Chronicles

Sunday, July 02, 2006

A fabulous day in the lives of little mama and nut

Sidebar: Pig refers to me as little mama. it is not a term I made up myself. ironic, she's 4'10" and I am 5 feet. I like the name anyway.

Nut has become a happy little man today. I have a theory. Today, Nut was awake at 745 in the morning. He fussed himself out by 945 and slept until 1130. It was at this point I did what everyone tells you not to do: I woke a sleeping baby.

I will admit, the first few minutes of being awake I almost regretted waking him up. But I had shit to do and I wanted to get it done before the next monsoon hit (yes, monsoon season is upon us). So we went out. We went to Pete’s Coffee House and had a cup of coffee and I even got to write in my diary!! We ran into some folks that I used to do plays with when I was a teenager. The kid, who always played my sidekick in the plays, is now 22!!! And tall!! Over six feet!! Holy crap!

We went to the local bed and bath shop and bought OC her wedding gifts from her registry. And that is when Nut cracked up and…. POOPED!! YEA!!! "Houston, we have a poopy!!" My little man pooped!!!! And it was soft!! And he giggled at me!! Wahoo!!

We went down to goldsmith Inc to talk to the Bear, who in turn BBQed for us. How cool was that? Nut was bouncing and jumping on the Bear and he laughed. NOT GIGGLED, but LAUGHED. He snorted!! It cracked me up. It was the first time that he actually laughed. I loved it. I almost cried it made me so happy. He laughs like me.

Eventually, Nut couldn’t’ take it anymore and feel asleep. He had been up for 4 and half hours at that point. He slept until 6 and then we went out to the grocery store and he giggled the whole time! And he pooped again! Hence, I think now that he is pooping on a regular schedule, he is a happy little man.

When we got home, he was asleep so I took a bath. Of course, Nut woke up at that time so since he had spit up on himself I just grabbed him and put him in the bath with me. You know what? For once, my son didn’t scream bloody murder when I did the bath either. We splashed around and had fun!

And guess what? He is a happy camper in the swing now and ready for bed. I guess taking a shit really helped him out today. Last night he only woke up once. Maybe tonight he’ll make it through the whole night. That was my theory... keep him busy and maybe he'll sleep through the night.

I love love LOVE my son. It’s hard to believe in 4 months I have changed so much. I can’t imagine my life before him anymore. Now I can’t imagine my life without him. AS I walked him to the changing table I held him so tight. I can’t imagine him older then this. I want him to stay this happy and healthy forever. I just adore this time. And it’s going so quickly too.