let me count the ways...

I feel like maybe I have been using the blog too much to bitch, to vent about my stresses of motherhood, and so I am going to take this opportunity (literally - Eddie is taking a nap!) to write about all the little things he does that make me smile with glee or get teared up with emotion because of how much I love him.

I love:
- the way he smells, like almond milk and clothes-hung dried laundry...I even love the way his stinky tooties (feet) smell - yes, it is amazing but his little baby feet sometimes smell!

- his toothless grin that gets wider every day and accentuates his chins...Daddy Eddie likes to say he has more chins than China

- the look only a mother sees: when he opens his cute lips to latch onto the nipple and has this expression as if to say "ahhh," like one would say when they are very relaxed

- his belly button: maybe all baby belly buttons are cute, but I swear his is the cutest! I love to kiss his belly when I change him because it smells so good

- his bug eyes: he has certain expressions that make him look like me, and people think the shape of his eyes are like mine - deeply penetrating

- they way he nuzzles into me and prefers to sleep somehow connected to me, like with his face in my armpit

- the way he sleeps: he has all these different cute positions, including when he is on his back and sprawled out across me with his arms up by his face. The funniest is one where he actually tries to get back into the womb and puts his head down by my crotch! Sometimes when he is sleeping to my side I just quietly stare at him and his dad asleep next to each other and they look alike.

- the way he gets so excited to hear me sing silly songs, flapping his arms and legs, smiling and even sometimes singing along

- our post-bath ritual: we have him all wrapped up in a towel and I nurse him...there's something very primitive and beautiful about him being naked and pressed against me

- when he smiles at his Dad and attempts to laugh at his jokes and movie quotes