One and one and one makes three.
They say that it isn’t money that brings happiness. And they are right. But the last two weeks have taught me the top two things that do constitute happiness.
They are:
1) progeny
&
2) sleep
The mysterious thing about this fact is that the items above are mutually exclusive, at least for the first 18 years, from what I’m told. 🙂
We love our little boy and have consigned ourselves to the idea that less is more when it comes to regularity in slumber. Though this trite little cliché might comfort some, it does nothing to placate the eight pounder when he is hungry at 2 am and then also at 4:30 am. Some might try to reassure with the empty promise that a baby’s biological clock will find some normalcy, and to that I’d say, “What Bio-clock?!” This cute-faced kid is merely a front for a bio-time-bomb that could go off at any second, releasing any number of bodily fluids in any combination imaginable! And babies have the amazing ability to rough you up like a mob enforcer without any teeth. You’d better listen carefully because his next request, if misunderstood, could result in another hour of confused crying. And then the little one would start wailing along with Dad.
But seriously, Aiden is adorable and is very sweet. We have had some ‘fun’ moments as well, but it is a tremendous blessing to be heading down the road of parenthood.
I’d like to mention one highlight of our last week. Erin and I stole away to watch August Rush. This film is tremendously acted and fantastically written. It is one we will commit to our library for sure.