My little darling

Those gums doe

My son’s bright, toothless smile lights up my day. He wakes up laughing. He giggles in his sleep. He breaks to smile during a feed. Is this real? He literally laughs at everything. Not all the time though. Why, that would be too easy. He laughs out of nowhere, without calculation. It’s the sweetest thing. I think I’m getting an inflated sense that I’m funny because I benefit from his laughter. I don’t think he…

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Milk induced coma

My son is always in varying states of inebriation & comatose. He eats & drinks like a champ (to him, those are the same things). He cries furiously in demand for a feeding & abruptly gulps his meal. It’s a dangerous thing, infantile spit-up but at least I don’t have a projectile vomiter on my hands. He can completely drench his and my clothes in an embarrassing mom-didn’t-pack-extra-clothes display. All of this I am okay…

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