Babyology 101

Here we are again.  Seems like we’ve been here a lot lately.  It’s that oddball spot when you bring a new baby into the house and you learn things, or rather, you relearn things…lessons you thought you’d never forget the first, or third, or sixth time you learned them.

Things like ‘babies are expensive (and it’s not all upfront costs – the maintenance is astounding)’, and things like ‘newborn diapers don’t fit newborns if the newborn’s got no bum’ and how to live on little to no sleep.

The first few weeks with a new baby are like that.  Education.  Reeducation.  Rereeducation. Etc.

The process isn’t just for mom and dad either.

Neighbors learn that the yard’s going to look a little rough for a while.

Friends and business associates learn that our email turn around is going to slow down to a reasonable pace.

Other kids learn once again that, in spite of what we all feel some times, we are not the center of gravity in this familial centrifuge.   We’re a part of the orbit, but we’re not the place that which the universe revolves around.  Sometimes we give and take.  And some times we give and give, because we took and took and now it’s their turn.

Five pounds and three ounces of Piper Eden Key Bohlender, we love you much.

We love how you wreck our life, putting an exclamation point where we were putting semicolons, or worse yet, were going to place a period.  You demolish our comfort zone.  People pay big bucks for this kind of exhaustion.  We are forever in your debt.