Howdy gang,
Last
Thursday was perhaps my most upsetting and proudest moment as a Father so far.
I had finally gone to bed at around 1am, I was getting comfortable, setting my
alarm, etc. when Elizabeth started to stir in bed. She has been doing this
crazy thing where she lifts her butt up with her legs and then slams it back
down in order to get our attention. My wife woke up and fed her. While
Elizabeth was lying in bed getting her diaper changed and almost ready to pass
back out, she caught a glimpse of me in the dark. It took a while for her eyes
to adjust to the dark and to register what she actually was seeing, but then
she lit up with this big smile. My wife immediately went “oh no”, but I was
pretty excited. She hadn’t seen me all day since I was at work and she was
already in bed by the time I got home that night. Seeing that big toothless
smile on her face made me so happy, but as it turns out she equates Daddy with
play time now. So at 1am she was now wide awake and ready to play. My wife
looked about the opposite of thrilled, but then I said that I would stay up and
get her back to bed so she rolled over and went back to sleep. I could tell
Ewok was still tired, but damned if I could get her to fall back asleep. After
about 45 minutes of walking around and gently patting her butt she finally
passed back out.
When I
picked her up from daycare on Friday I was told she was kind of a crank all
day. Elizabeth, my wife and I ended up meeting Doc and Ginger and their new
baby girl to go see a baseball game. We stayed out late and Ewok wasn’t really
having any of that shit. She was very good at the game, but right about the
time she would fall asleep the crowd would roar or some loud music would be
played. Luckily we were able to sleep in late on Saturday before a wedding of a
close high school friend of my wife and I . Despite the teething, she did very
well at the wedding. Everyone wanted to see her and hold her and for the most
part she was great about it, but for whatever reason every time she came close
to a specific friend, Elizabeth would start crying. And I mean really crying. I
have no idea what the deal was at all, Ewok just wasn’t having any of that
shit. A family friend took Elizabeth for an hour or so in order for my wife and
I to get a few dances in at the reception. We left a little before midnight,
but when we got home we discovered that we had left our beloved teething
giraffe Sophie at the wedding! Holy shit did Sunday suck without Sophie.
Luckily, Sophie was found “alive” and well and was returned to us last night
then. All is well now in our kingdom.
I would
like to thank you all for reading and as promised, we are working on a post
from my wife’s point of view. I hope to have it up very soon. So check back
soon and don’t forget to like Fatterhood on Facebook. Thanks again. Prost!
Not how I imagined meeting your little girl. We locked eyes and immediately I saw the big pouty lip which began to quiver followed by the shrieking cries and burying her head in your chest while peeking out the side of her eye to see if that awful lady was still looking her way! Got to say, I took that quite personally and still have not gotten over it..
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say, Ewok is kind of a little twat sometimes. She gets it from her mother. All seriousness though, she was just REALLY tired, I doubt it was actually your face that angered her so much.
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