Dada

My 1 year old son L has been getting used to me being home now. It took a long time after I got back and we are finally where he is almost indifferent between my wife and I (almost!). Of course he still prefers Mama, but I will take what I can get (and so will my wife with her breaks away from him!).

Night time has gotten easier and easier over time. When I got back, L used to cry when my wife left the playroom for the night to put our other two kids to bed. After a few weeks, L is back to not crying so much and playing with me for the rest of the night. Then it’s a quick reading and cuddling session and off to bed around 9pm. It’s a good routine now and one I am enjoying more and more.

When L wakes up, he now calls for me to get him instead of Mommy! I try to grab him most mornings and also when he wakes up from his nap in the afternoons so he isn’t always dependent on getting Mommy. I also like picking him up because he is so cuddly. Over this past weekend, I got to have an extended reading session in the morning while everyone else slept in and we also had a great play session with a circular ramp where we were putting cars and balls to see what was chasing what! When the first chase happened, there were a lot of WOWs coming from L. It was so cute!

The play session was so fun that he didn’t want to sleep. He is now in a mood where he screams when he doesn’t get what he wants. Terrible 2s starting early with him like it did for my other kids, but it is still so fun to be around him that I’ll take the bad with the good! Just making sure I appreciate these times because you cannot of the best of each period in your kid’s life. It really is just taking the tradeoffs and when there are good moments (and there are hopefully many of them), enjoy them while they are here!