I don't know why, maybe its my subconcious expecting the worse so that it can kind of "only go up from here" but Declan is just a constant source of surprise, in SUCH a good way! Admittatly, I have no real experience with babies so I guess I just don't know what to expect and thus short-change my son more often than not because you always hear the horror stories but he is such a little champ, always surprising me, always making me so proud :)
Our flight heading to Charlotte was a massive source of stress for me. I started packing/planning about 3 days in advance, packed every possible toy, 3 bottles plus snacks, downloaded videos on my Iphone (although that was a major fail) and didn't sleep a wink the night before because I was so nervous that he was gonna be a nightmare. Instead, he was unbelievable - slept on the way up and on the way down and then just played for the 2 hours in between, flirting with person in the seat next to me :)
Next source of stress was thinking about if he was going to sleep when we were in Charlotte - now this kid is a phenomenal sleeper, but that is in his CRIB. He had been boycotting his naps at our neighbors house because he didn't like the pack-n-play so I was full on expecting him to be a disaster sleep-wise. PSH - we got to Clt, he played for about 2 hours, took a 3 hour nap, woke up, ate dinner, took a bath and then slept 13 hours that night. I would say he averaged 13-14 hours at night as well as awesome naps while we were there. RIDICULOUS. Stressed for no reason.
Last Friday, little buddy all of a sudden popped out a tooth. Out of nowhere, slept all night, woke up, ate breakfast and then was gnawing on my knee when I felt somethign sharp, checked out his bottom gums and what do ya know - there was a tooth. No fussing, no up all night, no alternating Tylenol and teething tablets. Nope - just a strong little kid, this fella.
We started a new daycare two weeks ago, the day we got back from our trip to Charlotte (time change and daylight savings) so again, expecting to have a couple ROUGH weeks but I picked him up after the first day and she said it was one of the best "first days" she had had with a child in 8 years of running her own daycare. Atta baby!!!!
I know its ridiculous to say aloud but I'm kind of wondering if we chance having another kid. No baby is easy, but as far as infants go, this kid has been a dream and I just know the next one is going to be completely opposite - should we just call it good?!?!?!?!! :) Never! We're going for like 5. Just watch.
