Will 2009 please exit the building at this time

[kalquessa]

If I could sum 2009 up in two words, they would be "yay!" and "blaarg":

January: YAY I'M PREGGERS YAY!!

February: Yuck. I forgot being pregnant involved puking.

March: Like, a lot of puking

Comments

[aelfgyfu_mead]

It gets better. Really, it does. The best time is probably right before he starts to move around on his own, when you can put him down, leave the room, and know you'll find him in the same place when you come back; by that time he should be sleeping better too.

People started telling me right away, "Treasure every moment! You'll miss all these times when they're gone." Um, no, not really.

Life is good!

[kalquessa]

It really has gotten so much better, already. He sleeps through the night as often as he doesn't (night before last he slept for eight hours! *faints*) and he's so sweet and mellow and fun to play with. Even with a cold he's just been a bit out of sorts and occasionally cranky, but not dreadful by any means. And life got so much better when he figured out how to nurse all of a sudden and I no longer needed to pump all the time. So yeah, life is good. And it keeps getting better! *grin*

[aelfgyfu_mead]

If he's just "a bit out of sorts" and "occasionally cranky," he's behaving better with his head cold than I am with mine!

[kalquessa]

To punish me for bragging on how good he's been, he was a holy terror all afternoon and evening. *hides*

[sartorias]

A wonderful, fascinating, and frightening achievement. I was there in 1981 (seems like yesterday) and yes, the puking seemed to go on For. Ever. And what what that about "morning" sickness? Why not call it 24/7 puk-o-rama?

[kalquessa]

I keep taking him up to people who haven't seen him yet and going "Look what I made!" Truly, he's the coolest thing I ever created. I'm very glad he's not inside me anymore, though. He's much cooler out here than he was in there.

[rdamel]

Have fun with him--I'm childfree by choice, but a doting aunt and now grand-aunt, so I do see the appeal. I just like being able to hand them back and go home to peace and quiet!

Just remember the old rule that my sister's o.b. forgot to tell her--it's much easier to get pregnant the second time. She thought it would take a few months, as it had the first time they started a baby, which is why she has 2 boys only 19 months apart! Or, then again, you can always stop with one--at least till you forget how awful the pregnancy was.

I'm so happy your bookstore did wonderfully well. The economy is certainly nothing fun, that's for sure, so I'm very glad you are doing OK there.

Take care, sleep when you can!
Melissa M.

[kalquessa]

Oh, don't worry, we know! Although it would be tough for it to be any easier for us to get pregnant the next time, since we got pregnant with Bear almost without trying.

Yeah!

[thomas_a_kempis]

Wouldn't want to have to do it again, but now that it's over and there's a mega-cute little boy, Happiness Reigns...

Now, about this cold that's going around :)

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[sarcasticval]

Oh, is it the hair barrette with the little pin that I was playing with today? For it is cool indeed.

[kalquessa]

That's the one, my mom and dad got it for me for Christmas.

[thothmes]

In my experience, pregnancy sucks. So does any time they vomit or have diarrhea (no, I mean because they are ill, not because they are babies doing what babies do naturally). So does year 13 (year 15 for boys, but for some reason my boy skipped all that). Spelling bees and drivers license tests kinda blow, because they are so nerve wracking. The rest of it? So worth it.

The bit about childraising that I enjoy the most, didn't even think of originally, but should have? Watching them develop their own unique and marvelous quick-witted senses of humor. I thought the great joys would be in discovery and wonder and intellectual development, and sharing of favorite flavors and books and music, but the greatest is really being surprised by a moment of quick, sharp wit. It ranks right up there with the moments I can make my husband lol after nearly 30 (yeah, it will be 30 in mid-May! I can't believe it!) years of marriage.

[kalquessa]

I can so see the humor thing being awesome. I'm really looking forward to him figuring out what things he likes and finds interesting. My husband predicts that I will feel differently when I have had to read the same book to him fifteen times in one day and/or have been regaled with facts about the same bug/airplane/tractor/dinosaur for three weeks.

[thothmes]

As to the way young kids are Obsessional and Extremely Repetitive learners, yeah, one does go through the DO NOT WANT! stage (see icon) for that special handful of re(to the 'finityth power)-read books. My husband and I found, however, that now that they are past that stage and reading on their own, there is no faster way to make us break out in delighted and fond reminiscence than to start us in on the first words of one of those ten-or-so books that we can both [still!] recite from memory. It's akin to smelling a long unexperienced smell. It brings it all back so vividly! The big head on the small body all snuggled in so tight. The rapt appreciation. The bunny pj's...

Good times.