We have now been sheltering in place for a month due to COVID-19. We pass our time by taking family walks, cooking, baking, eating. You’ve gotten to try quite the spectrum of fruits and veggies in your purées, and Mommy will transition you to chunkier textures soon. You are up for trying anything new, and your appetite has quite increased in the last month. You’ve now sprouted two top front teeth, four in total.
You’ve learned to clap and could spend 20 minutes marveling at the mechanics of your hand movements. You could now pull up to stand by yourself and enjoy standing and playing.
You can lower back down to crawling position as well, and with these new skills, you can hardly stay still, even when we put you to sleep. You end up sprawled on us or across pillows at awkward ankles before passing out, as if you were in the middle of scaling Mount Everest.
Your In & Out Day has passed this month, so now you’ve spent as
much time on the outside as you did incubating in Mommy.
We find your personality emerging: you are physical, fearless, determined, curious.
You like to have fun and know how to win people over with a smile, but your brother Luc has the more good-natured sense of humor in the family as it takes more to make you laugh.
These days, our laundry and dishes always get on top of us, and we miss going adventuring on trips beyond our neighborhood. Mommy wishes she could take you on your first flight to somewhere fun so that you could continue learning and exploring. We are thankful for our health, for our jobs. But part of me is already dreading the inevitable commute back into the office, being away from you 9+ hours during the weekdays, rushing to get you through your meals and routine instead of having time to enjoy these little family moments.
For now, I’ll hold you close and watch you grow.
We find your personality emerging: you are physical, fearless, determined, curious.
You like to have fun and know how to win people over with a smile, but your brother Luc has the more good-natured sense of humor in the family as it takes more to make you laugh.
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| A Bouquet from Luc: for Dadda, Mama, and Dannica |
These days, our laundry and dishes always get on top of us, and we miss going adventuring on trips beyond our neighborhood. Mommy wishes she could take you on your first flight to somewhere fun so that you could continue learning and exploring. We are thankful for our health, for our jobs. But part of me is already dreading the inevitable commute back into the office, being away from you 9+ hours during the weekdays, rushing to get you through your meals and routine instead of having time to enjoy these little family moments.
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| Easter Sunday 2020 |
