1 year + 4 months + 30 Emotional days

Emotions make Everything and in the lack of, Nothing.

I never put much thought into it or maybe, a little when I was pregnant, until now ! Why ?

Blah blah blah !

JOSEF, suddenly a very expressive face.

Happy has been a constant since the day he was born. The happiest face in the world with the biggest, warmest smiles that would get you straight to the heart, melting away even strangers. Happy has been the theme. The ONLY one, unless he was hungry. Crying wasn’t really sad, it was just a “Feed me, For crying out loud”.

Happy mornings

Sad for the first time, came in strong with a heap of embarrassment about 2 weeks ago. I had my parents on video call, (and it was a silly disobedience) I said “No Josef” firmly. My sheer surprise, I had an award winning Puppy face that I had never seen before, tears and sniffles, it all ended in clamors. I was very confused with what just happened and just hugged him tight.

I can’t tell you the number of different puppy faces I get in a day. Ugh ! He knows my weakness, he has me wrapped around his little finger.

The bathroom seems to be wet and wet is fun.

Harmless and the cutest one to spot is Anger/ frustration. He does a little tap dance to tell me he’s upset, which I think is adorable. Imagine, we all just tap danced or did the Gangnam style between an argument.

He’s been pretty good with animals and bugs. But fears things like a Rumba or a remote control car. I wish he was afraid of falling or speed. He’s been adventurous, that makes my heart skip a beat.

Curious but careful please!

Uh ! jealously is just obvious. Over the top, Need your attention, Now ! He will pick any book and hand it to me, to read. He’ll walk all over me, if I didn’t start instantly! It’s always a book. How did he come up with that ? Of course I’m going to read it to him, I love that he enjoys books and it’s my favorite.

I guess it’s time to pull my “oh baby!” mentality a notch down. Month 17 and I’m welcoming a mini human, No more little. He will watch and like an adult prefer to sit together at the table, help me do household chores or joins in the conversation, laughs at jokes and says an occasional “yeah!”.

#troublemaker

I’m excited each day, looking forward to what ‘sef has in store, emotions and all.

Meerkat, the 16 Month old ‘Sef

Isn’t it so special to hear a baby ? I always found it adorable! My entire pregnancy I longed to just hear my ‘sef breath. I was done hearing an express train on the sonogram. Maybe 15 months ago I was longing to hear my baby coo. 10 months ago it was his giggles. 5 months ago I was dying to hear him say mumma or dada (but honestly just say mumma all day). It’s 16 months, now we speak gibberish! From dawn to dusk, if the eyes are blinky, the toddler speaks and speaks, there’s something important he’s trying to communicate before he forgets, I’m sure of it. You know, like a dream, you’ve got to blurt it out before your feet touch the floor or you risk losing it forever, or you’ll be left with just knowing it was something cool and now you’ve lost your memory.

Well, my point is I’m raising a very chatty person! You’re welcome world ! Not all that surprising, from chatty moms, come chatty babies.

The way a little one communicates – it’s beautiful, simple but so very confusing. It’s mostly funny yet cute sounding noises but I see a pattern. And I sometimes want a standing ovation or at least a pat on my back for cracking the code. Would you think my husband understood he’s lost a toy under the couch with “ googlie goo yuh uuh “? No ! but mama got it.

Honestly, I’d love to understand every little thing he says, However, I’ve actions or words and phrases for things we do on a daily basis, like sit, stand, wait, eat and All done; that is well understood. Sadly so many things just go over my head and I’m sure I sound just as complicated to my little human. Somehow, there’s one thing ‘Sef understands; Jesus. He says, “gibberish gibberish jejeeesh” meaning Bless me Jesus. That is what happens, when he spends too much time with his Big mumma (mother of his mother). A big shout out to my mumz for instilling faith in my baby.

Bless me jejeesh

He’s growing so fast he’s almost 90cms, I tear up every time I think of it, how quickly time has passed. It’s not just the talk, he dances, let’s me brush his 7 teeth & 5 erupts. He even eats dinner with us. It’s adorable how he just loves to do adult things and feel proud as he does it.

Meerkat Josef