{"id":2778,"date":"2011-12-22T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2025-05-23T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:31:49","slug":"magic-baby-someday-december-somethingth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/magic-baby-someday-december-somethingth\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Baby- Someday December Somethingth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I think it’s Tuesday. \u00a0Or Wednesday. \u00a0I just looked in the corner of my computer screen and learned it’s Thursday December 22th. \u00a0It’s the second best Thursday I’ve ever had in my life- the first being last Thursday. \u00a0Hazel and I are still getting to know each other but so far I’ve noticed that not only is she a beautiful creature, but she’s also magical.<\/p>\n

Hazel is still in a womblike state of sleepiness and peeness and poopiness. \u00a0One of her magical qualities makes her pees and poops utterly charming, especially when she does them at the same time while naked and creates a pool of pee and poop that she splashes around in it like she’s at a day spa while her mom and dad rush around the room bumping heads and shouting “where are the diapers!” “where are the wipes!” \u00a0The rest of the time she practices making adorable faces and waving her arms and legs around. \u00a0Under Hazel’s spell, we alternatively gaze and smile at her, at each other, hug, kiss, sigh, and say “I can’t believe this is real.”<\/p>\n

Most babies say “Wa Wa Wa” when they cry. \u00a0Magical babies say “La La La”. \u00a0This might not sound like a big difference, but that’s because as you read this you probably aren’t staring down a screaming baby. \u00a0If you were you’d understand that hearing a baby say La La La, even when red faced and chin quivering, makes it pretty hard not to laugh. \u00a0And when you and your partner are laughing it’s pretty hard to panic, especially when you know as soon as you get a diaper changed or boob out the baby will stop crying. \u00a0In fact, when Hazel starts LaLa-ing Tom and I like to join in and make a family chorus. \u00a0Hazel is the only one who isn’t off-key, but she never makes fun of us.<\/p>\n

Magical babies absolve their mommies and daddies of feeling guilt for being so happy when their other child is in heaven. \u00a0Magical babies make their mommies barely notice their new weird body and only obsess a few minutes a day about how their nipples will soon be tough instead of cracked and scabby but they’ll never point upwards without a bra ever again. \u00a0Magical babies make you see how good and bright and lovely the world is, even when it’s 4 am and you’re watching a documentary about Heidi Fleiss and debating if it’s worth it to go to bed for the hour and a half you have left before the next feeding.<\/p>\n

I know that it won’t always be like this. \u00a0Some days will be hard and scary and tiring. \u00a0Some days we’ll long for the awesome grown up life we had, when we traveled and ate and drank like yuppies. \u00a0But magical babies make you understand that one milligram of their love is more valuable than anything you ever had before they arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think it’s Tuesday. \u00a0Or Wednesday. \u00a0I just looked in the corner of my computer screen and learned it’s Thursday December 22th. \u00a0It’s the second best Thursday I’ve ever had in my life- the first being last Thursday. \u00a0Hazel and I are still getting to know each other but so far I’ve noticed that not … Continue reading “Magic Baby- Someday December Somethingth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.poorluckyme.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}