the bright side
there are times when people with children will swear that they put one kid to bed for a nap or the evening and they wake up with a completely different child.
i couldn’t put my finger on it, but today the buns changed. maybe his face got a little wider, he grew, or his soft spot closed, i just couldn’t figure it out. then we discovered a new game. a game where we put our foreheads together and he opens his mouth wide to gum my nose. he loves it, emitting a low tone sigh with a huge toothless grin. and it was during the course of this game that i figured it out.
his eyes aren’t newborn blue anymore, they are changing. they are darker and more green, i’d call them aqua, but not the horrid Miami Vice aqua, true aqua, the color of the ocean, that blue/green you wish would come through on your photos from vacation aqua.
and i just sat there stunned, warmed by baby love and thrilled that his eyes might turn green like his sisters, like his mothers. but i really want them to stay the color they were that moment i noticed with afternoon sun and the living room in the background.
i’m thrilled that all he does now is grow, but the time just goes by too fast.
in other news, the boo took her first dump on the toilet. i cannot tell you how happy i am to see the light at the end of the “oops, i crapped my pants” tunnel. the second she starts pooping on the toilet consistently and dressing herself, we got a whole new ball game here.