I haven’t talked too much about Matthew on the blog so far, but I feel like I need to give the little man a shout out.
I get asked pretty regularly what it’s like having two children and my answer is always “It’s basically like having one kid, with just a bit less time overall.” This isn’t because I’m some zen parenting master. It’s because we’ve got our little silent partner helping out.
I’ve been around a lot of very good babies, but I don’t live with them. So I can say pretty safely that Matthew is the best baby I’ve ever been around. Don’t get me wrong, Joshua was cute as hell. We’ve been watching videos of little one-year-old Joshua right around when he was learning to walk and just starting to talk and use his baby sign language to communicate and holy shit was that kid adorable. Like, I didn’t really realize at the time how cute he was.
Matthew, however, is a baby like he’s getting paid to do it. He basically only ever cries a little twice each day: in the morning when he’s super hungry and wants milk and for whatever reason we have to hold him up from getting it, and at night before he goes to bed and he’s hungry and he wants milk and for whatever reason we have to hold him up from getting it. Otherwise, you need him to play on the floor a minute while you do something? Go for it. Plop that baby on the floor. He’ll sit there and play. He woke up super early in the morning? It’s cool. He’ll just make some noise for a minute and go back to the sleep. I honestly can’t think of a morning we got him up because he was crying. In the mood for some big goofy baby smiles? Just smile at him. He loves it. Makes him get all happy.
He claps all the time when he does something he’s proud of. He rocks side to side when he hears music he likes or sees something that makes him excited. He already knows how to play peek-a-boo and hides himself with a blanket before pulling it off his face dramatically. He’s obsessed with his big brother and thinks everything he does is hilarious, which in turn makes Joshua eager to play with him and help Mommy and Daddy teach him things. Plus his teeth are all “Sloth love Chunk” different sizes right now, and that’s pretty funny as well.
So, thanks for helping out, little buddy. We appreciate it.
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