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Don't forget the little things.
The other night Cheryl nursed the baby to sleep a little early on the couch, and as she got up to take him upstairs she asked if I wanted to hold him, or should she go lay him down. "Oh, go lay him down I guess," was my response. After all, I had things to do. "No," she said, "I think you want to hold him."
When she laid the little sleeping guy in my arms, I realized that it had been weeks, if not months, since I had held him while he slept. All the memories of holding him as a sleeping little baby in the early months came back to me. I held him for the next hour until we went to bed. And that was the best hour I've spent with him in a while. How easy it is to get too busy and focused on other things each day, and forget some of the really important things. I'd forgotten how precious it is to hold sleeping Joshua. How quickly they grow up. I better get in as much sleep-holding as I can now before he's too old. Attitude.
While Joshua is the picture of preciousness while asleep (isn't every baby?), some of his waking hours are another story. It used to be that we could take things away from him (you know, like pencils and other sharp objects) and he would just look for something else to pick up. Now, he has a complete meltdown. It's funny for now, but I know that the worst is yet to come.
One of his most frequent sources of protest is when Cheryl goes through the baby gate and up the stairs. If he sees her, he walks to the gate and screams until she comes back. So, we make a game of it. I'll lure him into the kitchen to play, and off Cheryl goes. Even when he comes back out and into the living room, he won't even notice that she's gone, and he'll play happily for hours. It's just the actual act of seeing her leave that sets him off. Shhhhh, don't tell him he's not supposed to like broccoli.
The little guy is a virtual garbage disposal. He eats pretty much everything. He'll even wolf down pieces of broccoli like they're candy. I hear so many parents tell me that their babies won't eat that, I marvel at how Joshua likes everything.
Oh, the challenges of having perfect children. It's a cross that I must bear. The problem is, most of what I know as a pediatrician comes from my own experiences with my kids. But they don't have enough problems! I'm not getting the practice I need. So don't bother asking me how you can get your picky eater to eat better. I'll just stare blankly at you cuz I've no experience with picky eaters. So what am I supposed to do? Keep having more babies until we get one that's less than perfect? Ha. With my luck, we'd be bigger than the Brady Bunch before that happened. Actually, for my parents, it was number four that brought on the real challenges (she was perfect too, of course, but just in a very challenging kind of way). So I think we'll stop at three, and in the office I'll just have to keep making up answers to child problems that I've never experienced myself. 
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