Things I have learned

Three things I have learned recently:

1. When you least expect it, a true friend can be a ray of sunshine.

2. Shit happens

3. Everything I know about parenting I learned from my Puppy

Details:

1. I have a wonderful friend who made a special effort this week to warm my heart. Even though she is going through a rough patch herself, she reached out to me in my time of need.  While she couldn't catch me at home she made the extra effort and ventured out to 'the dark place' (AKA - my work) to hug me and share with me a simple truth: I shouldn't judge myself in light of other people.  I wish she knew how this truly touched me and how meaningful it was and has continued to be for me this week. Thank you Tawny.

2. You know what Babies hate more than pulling onsies OVER their head? Pulling a onsie full of baby poop that exploded out of the back of the diaper OVER their head. Have you ever tried to do this? If not, let me tell you how impossible it is to do without getting POOP on the baby's arms, back, shoulders, ears and the like.  Lovely I know.  Worse yet, it was way passed bedtime (probably why she didn't go to sleep, she had to poop!) and there I was giving her a bath at 10pm! I wouldn't want to go to bed with poop simply wiped off of me so I had to give her a bath.  Life summed up in two words: Shit happens.

3.  The most important thing you can do to have a great puppy to "SOCIALIZE" her.  She is supposed to meet 100 in the first few months. Soooo, I need to apply that to Madison too. (not the 100 people necessarily of course but)....she has never really been around other babies and kids and it wouldn't hurt Mommy to socialize a bit more too so mommy has committed to venturing out more.  (Just in time for stranger anxiety!)  

We started baby signing class this week finally.  It was so much fun.  We have been doing signing for about a month with the basics I learned from a book, eat, more, water, drink, mommy, etc. But communication is a social thing and it will help to do it in a facilitated way and with other kids. (That way I won't feel like such a dork doing it all alone).  Madison did so great and was attentive and interested in everything including the little girl next to us. Everything Madison picked up the other girl took out of her hands. It was too funny, her first experience of 'sharing'!

I am very excited about the next 6 weeks! 

Stay tuned....