This video is really for my mom – I thought she would get a kick out of it.
My parents lived out of town for several years when the boys were babies. My dad taught electronics at vocational schools in St. Louis and Kansas City, so it was a real treat whenever my folks could come down and visit. I don’t remember taking the boys up to visit them very often – Actually, I don’t remember going very many places outside the home at all when the boys were babies because we all know what a pain it is to take babies very far from home.
Near the end of the video, you will hear me babble about something (seriously – my folks always teased me about talking fast and though I knew they were right, I didn’t realize HOW right they were until I heard myself on these tapes. Sheesh). I’m saying something about how I couldn’t believe I was a mom. The whole experience just felt surreal to me – and I think that was partly due to the fact that Dude came so fast and so early I never really had a moment to “process” it all.
Actually, it’s STILL hard for me to accept the fact that I’m the mother of two boys – and they’re well into their teens.
Dude is nearly two months old in this video. He’s still pretty small – but he grows pretty fast from this point on and it’s not long before he’s in the normal growth percentile.
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