I had another baby anxiety dream the other night. To you long time readers, ok who am I kidding, to those of you who want to scroll to the beginning of the blog, I had an anxiety dream where Noah’s face came apart and turned into mush and I couldn’t put him back together.
I had another similar dream! It’s like straight out of a horror movie. This time I was out and about taking care of him, he’s fine then I look over, and his head is falling into his neck like there’s no spine there. WHAT! How can he breathe if his head is caving into his neck? Not cool. Not on my watch.
So I do what any good father in a nightmare would do, and I pull his head out of his neck. Problem is, his head comes off. And to make matters worse, he’s turning into mush before my eyes and his facial features are melting away. My efforts to reconnect his neck result in more mush. And soon after I’m wondering how I’m going to explain this to my wife, and I wake up relieved my son is probably intact in his room.
But what does it mean???
This last month has been a joy except for last night.
For some reason little guy work up at 10:30 and was inconsolable. We tried letting him cry it out, rocking him, wife tried to breast feed. Then he had a poop. Screamed bloody murder while she changed him. After all of this we got to bed around 12:30 or then he’s up at 5:30 AM sitting up between us clapping. Yay 🙁
Since original drafting of this post it seems there is some 10 / 11 month sleep, nap, teething regression. NOT COOL regression Gods.
Some highlights from this past couple months (as dad was late got this post up):
- Two bottom teeth now and a top one – sharp AF!
- He’s pulling up to stand like a champ and scooting
- Dude throws a lacrosse ball against the ball and gets it on the rebound – skills!
- He’s got an amazing surprised “O” face – one of my personal favorites
- He now can respond to us with hands high in the air when we ask him how big is he? I mean 60% of the time’s not bad
- His gibberish game is improving every day – “Oway oway oway bap bap bap.”
- He likes tries and get the attention of the older ladies at the park, but to no avail, this brings up old scars from dad’s unrequited older women crushes from long ago
- He’s picking up food and eating now like a champ – killing the blueberries – like smashing them into his face, at least the ones that don’t fall to the floor.
- He’s great at saying “uh oh”, waving and saying bye and knows that a monkeys says “ooh oooh ahh ahh”