2. It is so easy to solve their problems. They fall down, you hug and distract them. They can’t stick their fingers in the light socket, you hug them and distract them. A little love and a little distraction is all it takes to solve most of the average baby’s problems. When your kid comes home to tell you that Jacob told all the other kids not to play with him because he’s stupid, or your daughter gets dumped by her first boyfriend, you long for the days a hug and kiss from mom could actually fix a problem.3. Their heads smell amazing.
4. Their feet are so soft and smooth and clean and small. As they age, it is all downhill for most of their body parts, but particularly the feet.
5. The sharp, white, perfectness of that first tooth peeking through the gums.
6. They don’t yet speak and therefore never say, “You aren’t wearing that, are you?” or “I wish you were more like Christopher’s mom,” or “You know what’s weird? All your stories are boring. Hasn’t anything interesting ever happened to you?”
7. You know every inch of their body so well. As they age, suddenly they have big foreign feet and you no longer know what their hair feels like with shampoo in it.
8. Their brilliance. All babies are brilliant, making the most surprising and marvelous connections. One day you say, “Where’s your doggy?” and they point to it! Brilliant.
9. Their persistence. They try to turn over from front to back and can’t, but do they quit? Nope. They just keep trying over, and over and over, until they get it. Same with sitting up, crawling, walking. They just never stop trying.
10. You get to see the world a whole new way through their eyes. Everything is cool. Look at that big dog! Isn’t the kitty soft? What do you see? A bird! And since they learn so fast, it just keeps being new.
11. That whole-body smile they give you when they see you after you’ve been away (even if it was to the bathroom).
12. How when they are hungry and fussing and you put them on the boob (I assume it is the same with a bottle, but I don’t know) and they get that first taste of milk, their whole body relaxes and their eyes practically roll up in their heads like I imagine happens with a heroin junkie who has just shot up.
13. When they finally calm down after a crying fit and their little body relaxes onto your shoulder until it is completely limp. There is no feeling like the soft weight of a sleeping baby on you.
Links to other Thursday Thirteens:
1. Pass the Chocolate
