Monday night...
I’m typing on an iMac! Who would have thought that I would ever be a macintosh type person? I always rather thought of them as techno-snobs, really. I wonder why there’s such a division. I never really disliked the idea of a mac, but I truly disliked the idea that I would have to learn all kinds of new things. My old PC is the same kind of computer I’ve been using my entire life and I just learned how to cut and paste a year ago. Sad.
The only thing that really throws me so far is that all the close buttons are on the top left of a box rather than the top right. Such a rough thing to learn. The biggest, coolest thing in the universe is that it’s sort of a flat screen monitor, but the monitor is also the CPU! So it takes up like zero space. (We got it in lieu of a laptop, so it better be small!)
So MANY big things in Caleb’s life! First of all, he’s getting cuter by the day. I kid you not. I know I’ve been saying it over and over and over again, but it CONSTANTLY holds true. I was telling Jodi that the only time we’ll be able to stop saying that is when our boys finally hit puberty. Then we can look back and take comfort in the fact that they USED to get cuter by the day, and we can look forward and hope that they will one day be half as attractive as we thought they were as children.
He’s still not rolling over. At first I was letting it bother me, because there are a lot of babies that are doing it much earlier. But the bottom line is that he’s a baby, and babies develop differently. He’s definitely developing, because day by day he does things that he couldn’t do earlier. Right now, one of my favorite things is that he actually seems to becoming more aware of things, at least so far as putting them in his mouth is concerned. I hope, I hope, I hope that Jonny gets the video loaded of him eating one of the toys on his swing. You can kind of tell how adorable it is from a still picture, but the video shows how hilarious it is. (Of course, Jonathan says that I sound like an evil clown laughing in it, so maybe I DON’T hope he gets it loaded.)
He continues to smile with his entire body. It’s so wonderful ~ he’ll look at you with those big BLUE eyes, and if you give him any indication that you’re interested in conversation at all, he’ll scrunch his shoulders in, pull his neck down and to the side, and his smile is so big that it takes up all the room in his face and his eyes narrow in the kind of happy crinkle that only really big smilers get!
A good and bad thing: he’s only been getting me up once at night lately. It’s been a joy to sleep more, but it’s rough because that was always time with him that I could count on. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I MISS him when I’m sleeping!
Finally, the other magnificent thing about him getting bigger is that Jonathan is having so much more fun with him. I think it might be a guy thing, but when Caleb was a lot smaller, Jonathan didn’t enjoy him. Now, me? I would look at the little wrinkled ball of baby and enjoy every second of it. But he didn’t really do much.
As he continues to develop his fabulous little personality, Jonathan gets more of a kick out of him. The two of them will just sit and look at each other and have a good old time. Jonathan likes to mess with him, and he thrives on it! We discovered at Sam’s yesterday that when Jonathan basically rubs his hand all over Caleb’s face (the way you would tousle a kid’s hair) Caleb will squeal with nothing short of pure glee. I, as a normal human, would have never thought to subject my son to such a thing, but it makes him so happy that I’m overcoming my natural hesitancy and smooshing his little face.
Life is good.
posted by Amanda @ 7:12 PM
MAC!! YOU ARE A MAC CONVERT!
or you soon will be.
muwah ha ha ha ...
i love you. thanks for calling last night.
and by the way, at least one of the three or more conversations from the passenger seat were FABRICATIONS.
I miss you! Do you think you guys will be coming this way this summer? I wish you and Mandy were here today. Love you!