I spent a week at my sisters, not only help her out but to
spend time with my new nephew (happy 2 weeks old!) I haven’t been around
a newborn in a while, and anything that I had learned from previously being
around them or having to watch them as a babysitter was not too far off in the
distance tucked away in my mind of experience. I had changed diapers
before, fed a baby, I wasn’t completely foreign to the idea. He’s cute,
and I’m not just saying that to be polite because it’s my sister’s kid, he is
cute. You’ve been there, you’ve heard people say ‘oh he’s/she’s such a
cute baby’ when indeed they are not. But he is and his cry does not annoy
me like some other babies cries you may hear in the supermarket when you know
Little Johnny is not happy. He’d be one
of the many few babies I would hear cry and it wouldn’t phase me. He has
many cries, he has the ‘change my diaper’ cry which is accompanied by a
scrunchy face if its #2, he has the ‘I don’t like this at all’ cry when we
tried to put him in the swing with 6 different speed settings (does a baby need
to go that fast?), he has the ‘I’m hungry’ cry and then there’s the ‘I’m still
hungry’ mini-cry. It was a very fun week with him, even at 2 weeks to see
how alert he was and responding to Miguel the “French” Monkey who seemed to
calm him during diaper changing until he figured out he should get used to
diaper changes. He even attempted a few pushups during ‘tummy time’!
(Must have been all the protein my sister consumed.)
I thought I had a lot of clothes, or at least a variety, but
I now understand babies go through 2-4 changes of clothes a day, depending if
the diaper wasn’t put on correctly or if he just decided to pee right through
so the need to have an extensive wardrobe is a must at 2 weeks old. I
even got the distinction he didn’t enjoy wearing the froggy onesie, he seemed
to cry most of the day with it on. (That’s ok, I didn’t like it either.)
While my sister was going about her daily routine (or trying
to get into one) and I finished feeding him, we had a karaoke moment
together. Matthew enjoys the Disney classics so far and a few TV
show theme songs, but do not sing the Brady Bunch theme song to him, he will
cry immediately. We went through Little Mermaid’s “Part of Your World”,
“Under the Sea”, The Monkees theme song, Snow White’s “ Someday my prince will
come” (I hummed a few bars) until he nodded off to sleep. He sleeps so
soundly, and falls asleep semi-easy (to be that young again and not have to
take a sleeping pill to find zzz’s). Now what will his first words be? or
first sentence? My sister seems to think it will be “No Chi Chi” or “Down
Chi Chi”, referring to the dog, instead of Mommy and Daddy. But who
knows, if I can spend more time up there I can work on him saying “Go Big Blue”
instead. J
My sister and her husband sure made a handsome little man, I
told him to behave for Mommy and Daddy and I’d give him a $1 next time I saw
him. Now that I think about it starting at $1 might have been too high,
by the time he’s able to talk and remember what I said he’d be negotiating for
$10s and $20s. I enjoyed my time with my little All-Star, I can’t wait
for him to be more interactive!
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