Our bundle of beauty (and joy) is now officially two months old. It’s been so awesome to watch Maggie grow this last month as well as to see all the amazing and unique ways she is developing into her own little person. Let me tell you, just because she can’t talk doesn’t mean she’s not full of personality.
One of the coolest things that I have noticed is that she is starting to realize is that she controls those appendages that used to just flail about. And she’s learned to stick her tongue, which is starting to give me a complex but Lisa continues to assure me that Maggie is just learning that she has control over these different things as well as how to control them. Speaking of control she’s not so much of a bobblehead anymore, although there are times when she can’t quite manage and she cracks you in the face with her noggin’ – good stuff. But the coolest thing has to be watching her use her lil’ arms and legs which is most pronounced when she uses her bouncy seat. The seat has a little pad that when she kicks makes all these lights come on and it plays music, suffice to say that it’s not really quiet or dark anymore when Maggie is in her seat. But the best has to be her little arms which just go to town now, but with a what seems to be a goal in mind.
I’m sure some of these things seem bigger to us as parents watching it and it’s still more instinct than her intention. We know this. But still, watching her develop from instinct to intention is awesome! She gotten so much more alert to her surroundings which much to our delight she recognizes and reacts to us so much more. That baby girl has the most beautiful smile that I have ever seen. She started smiling a lot at the end of month one, but it’s nothing compared to her this month. There is no feeling in the world like when your child hears you talk and she turns her looking for you and starts moving those arms and kicking those legs with excitement. Then when she sees you and you smile at her or start to talk to you she smiles the most beautiful smile in the world. It’s just amazing to watch over time as her personality develops. One of the greatest things ever is to watch her on her changing table where she has a stuffed animal net above her and it rarely matters how bad of a mood shes in, when she sees those animals all is well in her world.
I just can’t get over how much has changed in the last two months. A huge change this last month has been Lisa going back to school, which I can’t say I was crazy about at first. Not because I didn’t want her to go back or anything, but simply because I didn’t want Maggie staying with complete strangers (to her at least). I’m over-protective, I know this, what else do you want from me? But really, the biggest change for me has been contributing a larger part in the family parties in the middle of the night. When Lisa wasn’t working she usually took the night shift except on the weekends and very graciously allowed me to sleep. But I remember one night, I think it was actually a weekend that brought on the picture above. Lisa had been up with Maggie for awhile and if she was going to function the next day needed some sleep so she woke me up. The ending is above but we got there by walking, talking, TVing, and eventually feeding Maggie to sleep. I didn’t want to run the risk of waking Lisa up because I knew she needed sleep and if I put Maggie in her room, even with me in there the potential for SuperMom to hear her was too great. So we camped out where bad daddies, and in this case good daddies camp – the couch. But this was only one of the first of I’m sure to be many occasions just like this one and in a sick way I look forward to each one, mostly because it’s that rare time when it’s just me and her and it’s a great feeling to know that I can comfort her too.
Baby girl, I love you so much. I know you hear me say that a lot and all but I just can’t help it. It’s been so amazing to watch you grow and develop so much these last two months. And now that you are starting to react to me more, my heart just melts that much quicker when you look, or smile, or coo. I know most people think I’m crazy but some of the times I get with you that I love the most are the times in the middle of the night or your mom is at games because it’s just you and me. Those times are cool for me because I know you trust me and feel safe with me and that I comfort you and if anything that’s one thing I pray stays the same. No matter what I hope you always trust me, are comforted by me, and feel safe because if I can help it nothing bad will ever happen to you. Love you, sweetness of my heart.
