memory snapshots from motherhood

 

• The first time I was left all alone with my son in the hospital and feeling genuinely surprised at how not scary and instead all together wonderful it was, just him and me.

 

 

• The dog and the baby on the bed with Nick rubbing both of their tummies and watching both of them kicking away, side by side =)
  
• Singing {loudly} every children’s song I could think of while taking a shower to pacify the little babe waiting for me in his bouncy seat in the bathroom floor.

 

 

• Houston and I staring at each other quietly at 3 am and me tearing up, knowing no one will ever love this precious child the way that I do.

 

 

• 4 diaper changes and one clothing change within 20 minutes… in the middle of the night… the middle of last night.

 

• Already having over 300 pictures of him on just my phone, taken by the camera on my phone, at just 6 weeks of life.

 

 

• Nursing my baby and having him stare up at me, knowing he knows me.

 

• Watching him learn new stunts every day, like turning his head to look at the person talking to him. The most minor of human achievements that make me fill with pride and excitement for him.

 

 

• His poppy saying things to him in his “Donald Duck” voice that he use to do for my sister and I when we were little.

 

 

• Watching every one of his grandparents melt over him, declare he is already a genius, and act like deliriously happy fools just to get a smile from this little boy.

 

 

• Wanting to keep smooshing him in his newborn size clothes because I can’t quite deal with the fact that he’s growing up so fast already. {Never mind that he is still comfortably wearing some of his newborn size clothes at almost 7 weeks… that still doesn’t make it easy on this momma.}

 

• After spending almost 6 hours apart for the first time this week, thinking his cry was the sweetest sound in the whole world when I got to see him again.

 

 

Crying while writing this and hoping I never forget a second of his precious life♥