Calvin made us laugh hard the other night. He kept pushing his tiny face up against the soft purple chair and then snuggling his mouth into his beastly, behemoth white teddy bear.
“What is he doing?” Shaun said between belly laughs. I shook my head, chuckling.
Meanwhile he kept nuzzling everything soft around him. He’s been doing this off and on and I’ve finally realized that this as the first signs of kissing. Sweet, Cal kisses. Today Nana reported he tried to kiss Mill’s pig-dog Valentino; as small animals, they have a sort of kinship. Naturally, he’d want to smooch him.
Something else that makes us break into huge grins is Cal’s chuckling at the oddest, most un-funny moments. In the car, for instance, he issues short bursts of laughter for no apparent reason. And, I guess, why not laugh at 6:30 on a Monday morning? Life is funny enough without anyone even trying to make it that way.
I read this the other day – parenting is love in action. Yes there is a lot of love. But may I add this: it is also complete surrender in every moment. With each moment, let alone each month, Cal brings us sweet surprises, like those kisses. With each day he grows in unpredictable, beautiful and perplexing ways. Surprises seem to fall on us like rain.
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