National Love Your Baby Day

Today is National Love Your Baby Day, or LYB Day.   It originated on this day.  2 minutes ago actually. (by me) 

Here is a list of what I love about Julian, who grows increasingly less baby all the time which is highly traumatic for me.  You hear moms say "my baby isn't a baby anymore!!"  and you're like, alright.. well, what did you expect?  Well guess what, I don't know what I expected.  But not this. Not. THIS.

The list:

1. I love that Julian is cautious.  Sometimes i don't love it because I'm not sure if it's indicative of things that you might not want, like having a kid who's scared of everything. But right now, he's not scared of everything. He's just cautious.  He looks at me when he does anything.  He gets into stuff, sure. But i can kind of count on him not to destroy things in 10 seconds.  Whenever i think, ooh, i should go find out what he's doing, he's usually playing with a piece of fluff in the corner 4 feet away.

2. I love that we share the same sense of humor. I guess this makes sense since i taught him what funny is (you're welcome, Julian).  But i love our jokes. We have so many.  I love that when he grabs my shirt or pants when i walk by he yells, "Aaaaah!"  because that's what you say when you're caught.   I love that he says it before I do.

3. I love that he likes to be tickled and puts up with my merciless tickling.  He's so patient with me. I really cannot help myself.

4. I love that he loves books.  I love that his favorite book is one of my favorite books growing up, and that his favorite part is when the boy says "Mom! Mom!"   And i love that when Julian "reads,"  that is what he says 100 times intermixed with his baby jabber.  "[jabber, jabber, jabber] Mom! Mom! [jabber, jabber, jabber] Mom! Mom!"  

5. I love that he squeals when Sean comes home. I'm a little jealous, but that's fine. 

6. I love his style. This kid really knows how to dress.

7. I love Julian's name. Such a good one.

8. I love his lustrous adult-like hair. 

9. I love how he says "Uh-oh!"  -- "Ha-ho!"  that soft 'h' gets me every time. 

Other words he says:  

hi

delicious

dada

meow! (actually, "ee-oh!"--pretty great)

aw geez!

Ashley

dang-- (not my fault!)  It's drawn out: "daaaang."   i love it.

moo

woof

tickle

boooo!  I found that one out the other night while driving and reacting to another driver.  Julian copied me. Hey, it could have been worse.

10. I love that he is weird. He is. He's cute and funny, but he's weird.  

I love that we are friends. We have our differences, to be sure.  But it warmed my heart when a friend recently said he looks just like Sean and acts just like me. 

Happy LYB Day.