On the road again

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."  -Robert A. Heinlein

 

I get quotes like this emailed to me daily from Real Simple and the one above was sent to me the day Wyatt turned one month old.  How perfect is that?  As I read it I just thought to myself how very true this statement is.  The past couple of weeks have been hard for me because, and only because, Wyatt has been having a tough time.  When he is happy, I am on the moon and when he is sad I get really depressed.  I've heard it said that you are only as happy as your most unhappy child, but I never realized just how true that statement could be.

Luckily the past couple of days have been good days.  On Friday night Wyatt was wide awake and happy.  Jared and I played with him for about an hour and a half before he acted tired enough to go back to sleep.  I used my finger to draw on his face, something that my dad used to do when I was a little girl.  I remember loving it because it tickled just the right amount plus it meant I was getting his attention which every little girl loves.  Wyatt was cracking me up because I would touch his nose and then move upwards between his eyes to his forehead and he would go cross-eyed and try to look up as he followed my finger.  I read him 3 different books, Harold and the Purple Crayon, Corduroy, and The Giving Tree, and he loved it.  He watched me the whole time I read and he smiled a lot. :)

It was fun to be able to play with him and feel somewhat normal for a little while. 

Wyatt's bed got changed out of Friday night as well, so I got to hold him while the beds were switched.  It had been about a week and a half since I had last held him.  Since he was out, our nurse was awesome and took a little family picture :)

I seriously have the best little family ever <3

Saturday was also a great day because Wyatt was extubated!!!  {Hopefully for the last time}

Since Wyatt is extubated, that means I get to hold him again! So, of course, I held him right away and he slept in my arms the whole time. :)

Wyatt is also learning this new trick and thinks it's really funny to kick his diaper off as much as humanly possible.  I think I might be raising a nudist, haha.

It doesn't count as nudity if it's a baby right?

I'm glad that we're finally back on the road to making some progress.  I'm totally okay with it going really slow, just as long as we keep heading in the right direction.