Skip to main content

The Best Things About Sven (at 8 months)


1. It seems that his eyes are always twinkling
2. and it's pretty easy to get him to smile.
3. I love his startlingly clear blue eyes.
4. I like the way he smells.  Like lavender baby oil.
5. I *adore* his soft, chubby cheeks.  Kissing them is one of the best feelings in the world.
6. It is wonderful when he sleeps.  He does it often, easily, and deeply (although he usually wakes up once in the night).
7. This is an exciting time in his development.  He is always on the go!  He is very persistent in getting to what he wants (and then getting it in his mouth)!
8. He does this funny thing where he blows raspberries on my arm.
9. I love to feed him solid food.  He eats pretty much anything with gusto, squawking for more and thumping the high chair in between every bite.  When he is finished, he turns his head away and refuses to make eye contact.
10. I enjoy giving him a bath and a massage every morning.  We give our full attention to each other and that connection feels good.
11. We are experimenting with elimination communication and that is really rewarding for both of us.  Hooray for less poopy diapers!
12. I like to take him around in my carrier and see his delight at the bright and busy world.
13. Sometimes he just lays his head on my chest and we breath each other in.  I like that.
14. I like to share him with people who seem lonely and I am always amazed at how generous he is with them.  He goes willingly to strangers and is just as ready to smile for them as for me.  It is amazing how non-judgmental children are.
15. All the boys (first Scott, but now Soren and Carl too) enjoy making the baby "talk".  It's become a fun family tradition.  I like that the baby can bring us together like that.
16. I love when he laughs at Soren's over-the-top antics.
17. I think it's cool that he uses the syllable "dada" almost exclusively when he is jabbering to his dad.  Scott thinks I am teasing about that but it is something I have noticed.
18. When he nurses during the day, he is easily distracted.  I love the way he pops off, looks around, grins sheepishly, and then comes back.  It makes me laugh.
19. I love to nurse him at 10:30 at night, when he is snuggly and sleepy.
20.  I think my favorite thing is that I feel confident in my ability to communicate with him.  I understand what he needs and enjoy creating a bond of trust between us.  Part of that comes, I think, from being a more experienced mother.  But I think that it is made easier because of his generous personality.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Our Potty Training Journey

February 2010 GOAL:  My initial goal was to introduce Soren to the toilet and make it a fun place to sit.  I have to admit that I also hoped that we would have some fortunate "accidents" that would lead to potty training success. STRATEGY:  My plan was to sit Soren on the toilet once a day and read him a couple of stories.  If he peed, I was planning to give him a candy. THE BAD NEWS:  The candy totally backfired.  The one time that he peed on the toilet, I gave him a candy and he had a full-on tantrum begging for more.  If I ever told him "When you pee on the potty, you can have a candy", he would begin screaming for the treat and be unable to focus on the toilet training. THE GOOD NEWS:  Soren was not afraid of sitting on the big toilet.  He actually really enjoyed it (when I was reading stories and not pimping rewards) and started asking to sit there any time his butt was bare. J June 2010 GOAL:  My goal was to potty train S...
2 comments
Read more

What Works for Us: Room Time

I've decided to do a new series of posts on how I make parenting work for us. Every parent does it differently--which is great!--but I have a hard time keeping my discoveries to myself. The things I do may not work for anyone else but I want to record them and remember them. Hopefully, it will also help me vent my soap-box-y-ness so that I'm not always imposing my ideas on other people. That will be what "What-Works-for-Us Posts" are about. One of the things that we have always done, but has made a HUGE difference in the move from one to two children, is Room Time . When Soren was 6 months old, I started having him play alone (in a safe place) every day for a few minutes. At first it was only five minutes in the port-a-crib but we quickly worked up to fifteen, then thirty. At that time, I used those precious minutes to do housework or relax on the couch. When I was pregnant with Carl, Soren would play alone for about an hour in his room and I would usually tak...
2 comments
Read more

Just Enough is More

They say that later-born children have skinny photo albums.  While parents lavish attention on the firstborn (making certain to record every milestone and in both print and pixels), later children are forgotten and neglected.  So the common wisdom goes. Maybe its true.  There are certainly fewer posts on this blog about the younger boys than there were about the older ones.  And there's no doubt about it: fewer photos are taken now-a-days.  I don't even want to talk about videos.  Poor neglected Leif.  According to the records, he's hardly even a presence in this house. Except that's not true. The paucity of posts and pictures does not reflect an absence of affection.  It does not speak to my feelings about living with children at all.  I find them no less delightful and amazing than I did eight years ago when I first began my mothering journey.  If anything, the little ones delight me even more now.  I know better how to enjo...
Post a Comment
Read more