While I’ve been having a tough month climbing out of my brain fog – though I must say, since getting the IUD [more like IU-DON’T!] removed, I’m 1000% better – Whuff’s been doing amazingly well. We’re finally getting the nap transition smoothed out, which is good for both of us. The difference between 12 and 13mos has been much greater than the difference between 11 and 12mos in terms of how much he’s just this… little MAN now. It’s incredible. He babbles and waves “bye bye” and “reads” to himself and he’s just… incredible.
Yesterday, he got his first joke. Which is to say, my mom and Nuno and I were chatting in the kitchen and things got absurd and we all started laughing… and from the high chair, Whuff let out this big throaty laugh, just amazing, like he was in on it and thought it was all the height of hilarity. He’s participating in everything in his own Whuffle way and it’s so, so wonderful.
He’s been spending a lot of time with my mama lately as she’s come down twice a week to hang with The Whuff so I can rest my poor brainz. He loves her so much that when he hears her downstairs, he gets all excited and can’t wait to see her – he even reaches for her when I’m holding him. Same with daddy – can’t get enough of daddy! Daddy’s the best! He still has his moments when only mom will do, but in general, he’s very social and loves his family and his kitties and is just the happiest, sweetest natured little man ever.
As you can tell from these photos, we’re spending more time with the stroller than we have in months past. It’s spring-y here in New England after the mildest, driest winter ever. The grass around here is already brown and dead and looks like that’s going to be how summer shakes out given that there isn’t any snow to *melt* and saturate the ground as usual. Whuff doesn’t care. Dirt’s fine with him. We’ve been going on a lot of walks now that he no longer falls asleep in the stroller. That used to be tricky because five minutes asleep in the stroller meant he wouldn’t actually sleep for his nap. Now, it goes the other way – ten minute walk means that he’s generally “aired out” enough to take a good nap later. We average a half-hour walk on windy/cool days and an hour on days that are warm enough to hit the swings at the park. And oh man, he loves the swings. The swings are the greatest ever.
So many of my friends have either had babies, are due any day now, or are expecting August-October babies that I feel surrounded by wonderful, amazing new life. I feel like I should be getting the baby itch… but no. I’m so, so happy enjoying every new and amazing thing that P is doing. I think fondly on baby-nugget Whuffle and am amazed at how fast he’s growing, but I’m just so excited about what he’s up to now that I don’t miss it. Yet. Some day, it’ll hit and I’ll be ready to get on the baby train all over again, but for now I’m happy living vicariously through these amazing new people around me and spending my days with a gigantic Whuffle who claps and giggles and sings.