Tuesday, August 14, 2012

My Uterus Just Skipped a Beat

This morning I dropped Andrew off at daycare as usual.  We walked in and there he was - the new baby that started on Friday.  I hadn't gotten a chance to see him yet because he wasn't there yet the other mornings and was already gone when I picked up Andrew yesterday.

His parents must have been early today because there he was, snuggling on Marc's chest on the couch.  I had already seen a picture of him that Andrea had posted, but that picture did nothing to show how little he is.  Gradon (not a fan of the name) is only 6 weeks old so he is still a little peanut.  I looked from him to my seemingly giant 24 pounder that I was carrying and I couldn't help but smile, thinking back to when Andrew was that tiny.  I almost can't believe that he was that small.

Then the baby started to wiggle around and stretched out, letting out one of those cute little baby groans.  And with that sound it happened - my entire body said "I want one".

We've talked a little bit about it and we were both in the 'yeah, we probably will have another' camp.  Well, now I am squarely in the 'we WILL have another' camp.  Seeing the expression on Andrew's face as he sat there and checked him out was priceless.  He was sitting on the couch looking at the baby with the curious look on his face.  I love watching little kids around babies.

So anyway, J and I will need to have a talk soon about our future plans.  At the beginning of the year we said we'd start trying closer to the end of the year. Well, here we are mid-August and the end of the year is rapidly approaching.  I think it might be time to get this show on the road.  I've been charting since AF returned just to get a handle on what my cycles would be doing.  Now I'm getting excited at the prospect of actually using that information for something.

What I'm really excited about is the prospect of having another one of these:

Vintage Andrew

A squishy sleepy adorable little newborn.  Yeah - I definitely want one.

11 comments:

  1. God was pretty smart in designing these sweet little monster so we'd keeping making them, huh? ;)

    All I can say is seriously brace yourself for the hell that is chasing a terror - I mean toddler - while dealing with the death of 1st tri

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    1. I remember being a little tired during 1st tri, but I didn't have any morning sickness or anything. I really hope that will be the case the second time around, too, but something tells me mother nature is going to get back at me!

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  2. I think I might be broken. I took newborn pictures of my friends 4 day old a couple of weeks ago and seriously thought to myself, "I can't do it".

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  3. hahaha. i am the exact opposite. i see a newborn and ithink how the hell do you do it with a mobile child? and i think ummmm not any time soon!

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    1. Yeah - there's that. Seeing a sweet little baby kind of pushed the reasonable voice out of my head. If we were younger we might wait longer, but we're no spring chickens so the clock is ticking!

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  4. I am not sure I could handle pregnancy and a toddler. Or a new born and a toddler. But we are in the "yeah I guess we'll have another one camp" too.

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  5. I go back and forth between wanting one now and not. I had a rough pregnancy and so I worry about bedrest and things with a toddler buuuuut...at the same time...I miss those baby days...sigh!

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    1. I had a really easy pregnancy and delivery so I haven't worried much about that. Of course the second time around I'll probably have the pregnancy from hell just to make up for it!

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  6. I am not quite ready to have another one (I am thinking next year is a good time) but I started watching a baby this week and it has been so nice. It makes me for sure want another one, but it would be nice for Leland to be a bit older first.

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    1. If we were younger I wouldn't have a problem waiting, but I'll be 36 in a few months and my husband will be 41. It makes me feel like if we're going to go for #2 then we need to get a move on.

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