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Houston, We Have A Fussy Baby!

// May 14th, 2010 // Marriage

Today was the final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and being that I am at home with my three month old son I wanted to watch it with him since there may not be any more shuttle launches to watch in the future.

Unfortunately the shuttle launch came after feeding time and just before nap time which means he fussed and cried through the entire launch and didn’t see any of it. If he was old enough to remember this day he would be kicking himself later down the road. But since he won’t remember anything I will just have to remind him when he is 16 when he is talking about the ancient space shuttles in Science class. Of course by then, we will all have our own personal space shuttles right? That’s what they kept telling us in the 1950’s.

In other news, with my mother visiting us this weekend my wife wanted the house cleaner than ever (as she does with all visitors) so we spent all last night cleaning. The only thing we were missing was air fresheners which she said, “Just take the baby to Wal-Mart tomorrow and get them before your mom gets here.” I like how she picked the one day of the year when we got over 3 inches of rain in just under half a day. I never realized how much effort it takes to get a baby to Wal-Mart in the rain. Trying to carry an umbrella, car seat, diaper bag and lock the car doors is near impossible in the rain.

I also had an item to return but there was no way I could fit anything else into my rain soaked ensemble. So it’s still sitting in the passenger seat for the next trip to Wal-Mart.

I decided today that it’s time the baby starts seeing his bedroom a little more often. You see, the baby sleeps in our room for now in a bassinet and we have been dressing him/changing him downstairs in the playpen for convenience (his bedroom is upstairs). So he rarely ever gets to see his bedroom. So since he sleeps through the night now and we don’t have to get up to change him there is really no need to keep everything downstairs in the living room. This will also help declutter our living room. It’s true what they say, the baby really does take over every part of the house.

I think he likes being in his bedroom. He’s basically looking at all new stuff since he spends so little time in there. Mommy isn’t going to be too happy though. She will see this as a sign he is growing up and we are losing our baby. Yesterday she was talking about how she can’t wait until his Kindergarten graduation but then she gets sad whenever he outgrows an outfit and we have to retire it.