earlier today i figured out a silly voice that made my baby laugh for like 15 min straight. the look in his eyes when we made eye contact during this was legitimately one of the peak experiences i’ve had in life.
he was so *alive* and looking back at me with so much affection and excitement and some other sparkly thing i don’t have a word for. he’s the love of my life. i want to swallow him whole and birth him all over again and make him laugh every day for eternity.
anyway, after that i was thinking about how it’s just plainly impossible to ever experience this if you don’t have kids. you can have a ton of fun with your nephew, but it’s just not gonna be even 1/100th as good as this. you can fall desperately in love with a partner, but there’s this whole other unimaginably huge experience of totally different sort of love you can’t know.
Never expected my mom to be a chill grandma watching from a distance as Levi climbs up play structures or let him play in the mud before having to get back into the car, and yet here we are! I am very impressed!
Along with walking and separation anxiety, toddler tratrums when told "no" have also entered the chat this past week. Levi screamed for 10 minutes straight yesterday after being told he could not eat a rock. I don't think he even knew why he was crying by the end of it 🤦♀️
i’m so impressed by how well babies are pulling off the eliciting care thing. my baby is an absolute terror most days, but as he violently arches backward and screeches horribly for the 1000th time, i furrow my brow and say “my sweet baby, what’s the matter?” and attempt to kiss his soft little head.
i should be leaving him in the forest for the wolves, but instead i am tenderly cleaning cottage cheese out of his ears and telling him he’s my perfect baby as he thrashes angrily. and it is true. he is the most perfect creature i have ever seen.
I can't even put him on the ground so that I can sit beside him to play. Me placing him on the ground leads to a meltdown because he thinks I'm going to walk away. I have to lower us both to the ground at the same time with him on my lap.
Separation anxiety has fully hit in the past week. Daycare drop off, grandma babysitting, me just going into the other room, all lead to full body thrashing to the ground meltdowns 😭
Happy for Ehlers. Went to a team that believed in him. They put him in a position to succeed and he repaid them with a brilliant playoff performance. Should have happened here. Carolina reaps the rewards.
this will never not be funny to me. they absolutely embarrassed the fuck out of vegas, shutting out that evil ass team and making carter hart go down as the worst goalie in finals HISTORY, made him CRY and then did the storm surge on THEIR ice and logo
Huge congratulations to the @Canes! Have been a fan of them since back in their "bunch of jerks" era. Ehlers was one of my favourite Jets players. I'm hoping Seth Jarvis brings the cup home to Winnipeg. So happy all around!