Norman was able to finagle the day off and we drove to Tricities to meet my dad who was helping one of my aunts move. It turned out his parents were there too, and they've never seen Desmond so it was a really neat surprise. The took pictures with him and then my dad and them headed home and I stayed and talked to my aunt for about an hour. I hadn't seen her in year and it was awesome. She's going to be only about 45 minutes away now!
4th of July:
It was a big weekend of Desmond and me. It was his first 4th of July. My grandma and I took him to Pioneer park and he mostly slept through us wandering around to see all the vendors. We ran into a friend of mine from high school and he opened his eyes to see him, then went back to sleep. Then later I took him to my aunt's house and we hung out there and ate BBQ and then came home when Norman got off work. We could hear fireworks, but didn't actually see any. Next year that will be much more exciting because Des will be able to be excited about it.
Newest Developments:
Desmond made the break-through the other night that his kicking makes the animals on his bouncy chair bounce. He stared at them like a little scientist, researching how the harder he kicked the more they bounced. It occupied him for an hour. I got him a rocking vibrating chair with a gift card from my Aunt Lisa and he really likes it. He spent an hour today getting the animals on it to move. He kicks and smiles and stares with huge eyes. It's so cute.
The other thing he's started doing is he stays awake a little longer in the car. He's made it around the block to my grandma's twice! And shocked me yesterday by staying awake the whole way from my Aunt Patty's house, which is about 15 minutes!
My Revelations:
The other day I accidentally read some posts about people who had lost their babies to SIDS. It's so terrifying because it's not something you can control like not drinking while you're pregnant or rear-facing the car-seat. I do all the preventions on the lists I find. I was worried about it because I don't know what I'd do without this little guy. I've rearranged my whole life to made it about him for awhile. I finally got Norman to talk to me a little bit so I could tell him about it and that made me feel better. Then Saturday in the car I read in American Baby that 96% of SIDS deaths happen when one of the preventions isn't followed. So, that makes me feel a lot safer.
The other safety thing I learned more about is the rear-facing car-seat. Watch some videos on Youtube, it's crazy. If you get in a crash front-facing your kid has a good chance of being internally decapitated. So Desmond is going to be rear-facing as long as he can be.
Desmond has begun not letting me sleep in. When he decided I should be up he cries and own't settle himself. I'll get up and feed the dogs, etc. and while I'm out of the room he goes back to sleep. If I try to ignore him a while and get him to go back to sleep with me in bed he will not sleep. I get up, he sleeps. Not fair.
My grandma had told us before Desmond was born that we'd find a renewed need for God when Des was barn. We've definitely found it to be true. With so many ways a baby can be hurt or killed, and so many of them out of our immediate control, you'd go crazy if you couldn't pray and give some of your fear to God. I was listening to a Big Bad Voodoo Daddy in the song that summed it up pretty well, "Angels watch over you, like parents want to do".
You Know You're A Parent When:
I think I must start this list and add to it as I find new things I didn't do or think before.
-baby drool no longer turns your stomach
-anything past 7:30 is "sleeping in"
-anything past 9 PM is "late"
-every time you go someplace you feel like you've packed for a weekend
-you narrate everything you do
-you can make a sandwich with one hand
-you know how to swaddle
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