a sick baby, and the best of cuddles.

I haven’t visited this space in quite some time.  My last post was on Penny turning one and shes now 14 months!  This lady, you guys!  She is crazy.

Some of my favorite new things about here are as follows:

• Any time I am holding a mug, no matter what its contents, Penny looks and says “hhhoT, hhhoT, hhhoT”.  with a hard “T”.
• When we slowly approach her, like we’re about to chase or tickle her, her defense is to fall flat on the ground and not move.  It is completely ridiculous and adorable.
• Words she uses often are “WHOA!” “Was this?” “butt”, “duuuuude”, “hhhoT” ,”nono” ,”CAT”, “GO!” ,”baBA” ,”byebye” ,”hi!”, “uh oh”, “peek-a-boo!” and of course “mama” and “dada”
• Animal noises according to Penny are:  Cow says “boooo”, Cat says “MOW”, Dog says “bow wow”, Sheep says “ba”, Elephant says “fooOOO” (complete with arm as trunk motion), Duck says “DUCK”
• This morning when I went in our room to grab my keys and purse, she followed me in and said “bye bye”. (tear.)

She really has quite the little personality and she makes me laugh…often.  There are so many things I love about her and I want to remember all these little funny quirks.  I’ll end this little post with a story from late last night or early this morning.

Penny has had a pretty rough cold for about a week and a half.  She gets these little coughing fits that wake her up in the middle of the night and she (and we) are uber frustrated about it.  She started crying out at about 1:30am last night.  I woke up and decided to just try and get her to snuggle in bed.  It should be noted that she DOES NOT snuggle.  We’ve tried.  Our bed is “play time” for her.  Its the big comfy place where the tickle monster lives, and whenever we set her on it, she giggles in anticipation.

So, I calmly went into her room and swooped her up and took her into bed with me.  I leaned back on my pillow and she suggled up in a little ball on my chest.  I was slightly uncomfortable but I didnt want to move because I didnt want to ruin it.  She stayed there for about 20 minutes.  And in that moment, I wasnt frustrated, or exhausted…I was the happiest mom in the world.  Then, she woke up and started screaming again and it took us until about 3am to get her back down.

It was just the perfect picture of parenthood to me.  It’s just crazy, and tiring, and so relentless (such is life), and then…theres this tiny moment.  It’s 2am and I have this tiny human snoring on me, and my free hand resting on my very best friend to the right to me.  And I think, this is it.  I could never sleep for the rest of my life and as long as I have these two humans at the end of the day snuggled up to me, that’s enough.  I am so incredibly exhausted this morning, and so full to the brim with gratitude.

but…lets hope she sleeps through the night tonight : ).