The laundry can wait

Some times it is nice to just be needed. This morning Rylan was fussy; I had fed him, changed him, played with him on the floor, and read him a story, and none of it helped he was overly tired but was fighting sleep. I did manage to lay him down for a nap in his crib by playing a cd that I use to play for him when I was pregnant, but that lasted less than 15 minutes and then he was up screaming again. So I picked him up and held him close and sat in a chair and was able to rock him to sleep. He didn't need anything but me, and even though there was laundry to be folded, dishes and bottles that needed to be washed, and countless other things, I just sat there and rocked my baby, and we were both happy. My son won't wait, and as a poem I recently found says, he won't keep. Rylan won't be this small for long, and there will come a day when he will tell me he doesn't want me to hug him outside school any more, so this morning I ignored the things around the house that will keep another 5 minutes or even another day, and just held my sweet wonderful son. Here is part of the poem: "But children grow up, as I’ve learned to my sorrow. So quiet down, cobwebs. Dust, go to sleep. I’m rocking my baby. Babies don’t keep."~Ruth Hulburt Hamilton

And as amazing as it seems, Rylan is a month old today. Sometimes it feels like we just found out we were pregnant, but most the time I can't remember what life was like before him. He slowly starting to smile when you smile at him, and he smiles in his sleep. Talking about sleep, he has always been a good sleeper at night, he typically eats between 9 and 10 and then we put him in his bassinet and he usually wakes up between 3 and 4 and then again between 5 and 6, but two nights ago he slept from 10 till 5! Of course I still woke up every hour from 1am on to check on him and make sure he was ok :-) I have been bitten by the mommy bug, that is for sure.

We put up our tree this week and had a great time showing it to Rylan. He seemed to enjoy looking at the lights and contrasting colors. I am really looking forward to this holiday season, we have a lot to celebrate, and even though Rylan is still very young and won't remember this year, we will and I can't wait to start making new holiday memories. Here are some pictures of the best Christmas present under our tree.