one month--the new normal

Thursday marked another important milestone--g turned one month old. It's hard to believe that he's been around a whole month. He's changed our lives in a lot of ways, but not the ways that people told us it would. For the most part Mr. A and I like to spend our time at home, and I don't know that there are that many people who are as content to stay at home (i.e., not big hermits) as we are. Sure we like to go eat once in a while, but we don't even go out to movies. Anyway, the difference between our lives now and a month ago isn't so great, but I think that I'm the one who has changed the most, lifestylewise--namely it is my sleep schedule that has evolved. I used to be a sleep until 10am person and go to bed at 2 or 3 person. That has stopped. I'm now a go to bed at 10:30 or so person and get up at 5. It's been challenging to change my sleep pattern. Luckily for me, Mr. A thinks it's cool to get up at 2 or 3 with g to feed him. I've only filled in for him a couple of times, and that was because g would take too long to eat one night and Mr. A would be like the walking dead the next day, so I'd insist that he let me take the "late shift." 

Other than that, though it's just a new form of entertainment added to our dull lives. Amos pointed out that summer was a great time to have a baby, because there is just no other entertainment available...most shows are on summer hiatus, so there's no TV, etc. Not to compare having a kid to TV, but from a purely entertainment standpoint babies and TV ARE both entertaining, and surprisingly enough babies are actually MORE entertaining. For some people this comparison may seem silly...babies are living things, etc. Yes yes. But, for people who love TV as much as we do, the comparison is high praise.

I suppose another change, which is actually more of an enrichment, not so much a change, is that g has given Mr. A and me another project on which to work. Now, we do a lot of stuff together--probably more than most couples have the chance to do, because we both work from home most of the time...but this is yet another shared project. A really kick-ass project. It's also not to say that we have it all figured out, we don't. Working together on something always involves some compromise, and we've already butted heads on a few issues and decisions about g, but one thing I think we both always know is that we are each in our own way wanting to do the best possible things for g. That, in some ways, makes the compromising easier, because you know the person you're working with has your shared goals, but they just see a different way to get to that end-goal. Anyway, g and md are our two favorite projects, and I'm looking forward to working on them with Mr. A for a long time to come.

Here's g, Mr. A & MD, chillin' on g's one month b-day