BarefootinBoston

but I’ll blog a bit instead.  I’m waiting for my brother to come down and help me bring a few boxes and miscellaneous items over to our new apartment tonight.  A is at the Celts game (box seats, nonetheless) and E is up in NH for the moving weekend (thank goodness) so I am here, alone, in peace and quiet, and have NO idea what to do with myself.  I lack complete motivation to pack all the odds and ends hanging about.  I lack complete motivation to do anything.  At least I am not playing my DS.

I am always shocked at how quickly and easily I miss E.  It seems like it’s going to be easy, leaving him somewhere for a night or two, but the second it comes to saying goodbye, I get incredibly sad.  I cry when I drive away, and just don’t know what to do with myself when I don’t have him around.

This worries and pleases me.  Worries me because I wonder if I have become ‘just a mommy’.  I don’t want to be just a mommy.  I want to be me too.  But it also makes me happy to know how much I do love him and enjoy his company, even if he is fussy.  So, I guess it’s nice to have these revelations every once in a while.  But goodness-I left E not even 5 hours ago and can’t wait to see him again.

Today E is 8 months old…so I thought I’d write 8 things he’s accomplished this month (or at least very recently.-time goes so quickly and blends together!)

1. He knows who his daddy is when you say daddy or da da.  We tried with various names, and he didn’t respond, but he knows when I say daddy, he looks right at, or for, his daddy.

2. When I sing open shut them (and while I am opening and shutting my hands) he goes along and opens and shuts them too.

3. His language is really coming along.  All the ba ba, a ba ba sound much more serious than in the past.

4. When he’s sitting, he’s bouncing a whole lot.  I have read this is to build their muscles so they are strong enough to crawl, walk.  We are still waiting on those fronts.

5. He can stand in his crib for hours (holding onto the railing of course).  And not really hours, but he loves to be standing and the crib is where it is the easiest to have him stand for the longest time.

6. He knows when we are putting him to bed and starts crying and trying to get out of our arms.

7. He has somewhat of an ‘eating’ schedule.  His bottles and meals fall generally around the same time.

8. He’s made it to 8 months and is thriving!

So…A plays basketball, in a league, at the ‘cage’ and other various locales.  There’s a guy he plays with that says this, often.  It has become a common phrase amongst the B house.  This is what I want to ask E.

The past few days have been trying to say the least.  I am amazed I have made it through in one piece.  So far so good.  E’s fussiness level has exceeded that of past times.  I am amazed at how demanding he is with my attention.  I suppose it’s another tooth, that would seem to be the explanation, but my GOD!  I could have never imagined it would be this painful for the both of us.