These past few weeks have been amazing as we have gotten to know our little guy. I thought I knew his personality and preferences from him being in my tummy for 9 mos., but that is nothing compared to all we've learned in the past little while.
I've never been happier in my entire life, or felt so complete. These few thoughts that Caci sent me via e-mail almost hit it on the head:
1. You look at your baby in the mirror instead of yourself.
2. You finally stop to smell the roses, because your baby is in your arms.
3. Where you once believed you were fearless, you now find yourself afraid.
4. You're less self-involved and more self-motivated.
5. The sacrifices you thought you made to have a child no longer seem like sacrifices.
6. You respect your body ... finally. (Hooray for baby-making!)
7. You have stronger opinions and are stronger willed.
8. You respect your parents and love them in a new way. (Hooray for grandparents!)
9. You find that your baby's pain feels much worse than your own.
10. You believe once again in the things you believed in as a child. (Hooray for the tooth fairy!)
11. You lose touch with the people in your life that you should have banished years ago.
12. Your heart breaks much more easily.
13. You think of your baby 234,836,178,976 times a day. In fact, you're so busy with this that you forget everything else.
14. Every day is a surprise.
15. Bodily functions are no longer repulsive. In fact, they please you. (Hooray for poop!)
16. You think before you speak.
17. You become a morning person. (Hooray for watching the sun rise!)
18. If you have a son, you no longer curse men. (Hooray for all men!)
19. If you have a daughter, you hope she won't endure your same heartaches.
20. Your love becomes limitless, a superhuman power.
Me and Jesse have never laughed so hard at all his little grunts and squeaks. He's such a good baby and doesn't cry very often, and when he does it's not very loud. But he still doesn't have a sleeping schedule down yet, so I only sleep 2 hours at a time (Caci enjoy your sleep now!). We're planning on taking him camping in a few weeks (Wahoo!) , so hopefully he's got some sort of pattern by then.
On a side note, Jesse is super super excited for FIGHT NIGHT tonight. He's been counting down for several weeks the fight between UFC fighters Matt Hughes and Royce Gracie. He invited some people over and bought double stuffed oreos, so I think it should be pretty eventful. He's just afraid one will knock the other one out in the first round and it'll be a 30 second fight. For Jesse's sake I hope it's long, and not to gory.
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Hooray! You posted! I am glad you are having a grand time with your baby! Post pictures of him! Has Cooper been counting down the days to fight night, too? Are you decking him out in his boxing gloves and spandex shorts? Isn't it fun to have a real life size squeeking, moving, doll? I can't wait to dress mine up!
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