5 Months 5 Days Old

Before Von Bebe was born, I remember writing about babies laughing and included a link to a video showing this.  Sadly, that link no longer works.  As a reminder, enjoy watching THIS and THIS.

  This is all well and good, but I now have a taste of what it may be like to hear my own child laugh.  Check this out:

I could watch this over and over again and never get bored.

   I'm really glad that I got this on video when I did because she hasn't laughed the same since.  This is also very lucky because her mom was at work when this happened and didn't get a chance to see it first hand.  We knew that we would miss things as we go back to work full time.  That sucks.  So something I can do while I'm home for the summer is to take as many photos and video as possible so mom can see some of those things we will otherwise be missing.  That is how I can not be an ass this week.

Week 17 Day 1

   The kid is already like me.  It was poking my wife in the side repeatedly at work yesterday.  Of course, when I do it it’s metaphorical.

   This is the first time she noticed this happening during the day.  Usually if she’s felt anything so far, it’s been during the night.  The baby’s been moving throughout, but according to the pregnancy app on my phone, it now weighs 7 ounces and is about 7 inches from head to foot, so it’s finally getting big enough to notice.  As my wife said, “It’s cute now but wait until it starts doing Tae-Kwon-Do in there.”

   And I’m having more frequent moments of “What the hell are we doing?!”  or “How many ways will I screw up our kid?”

   But then I calm myself by watching videos of babies laughing.  Like this one.  I’m not sure what chemical change happens in my body but videos like these have a calming effect.  I can only imagine the effect it will have when it is my own baby.