Kamal napped in the backyard while Adam and I pruned some of our fruit trees, and then when he woke up, we played there on the blanket for a while, and then all sat together on The Thing (our name for the piece of outdoor furniture I got Adam for his most recent birthday, a sort of glider/picnic table hybrid) and chatted, cheesed for the camera and enjoyed being a still-new little family on a lovely, sunny day.
Monday night was not, so much. Kamal and I were up--nursing, rocking, pacing, repeat-repeat-repeat--from 11:15 PM till about 3:30 Tuesday morning. THREE THIRTY. IN. THE MORNING.
So, ok. It's not all sunshine and smiles and idyllic backyard naps. But even on the long, addled days following frustrated, sleepless nights, I love this tiny person more fiercely than language exists to describe.
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He has brought me the relief of unquestioned devotion to someone else, the gift of forgiving myself for every imperfection, but that is not why I love him. I love him for no reason. I love him past reason.
I love him through undereye bags and crazy sticky-up bangs and baby snot on my shoulder and falling hard off the coffee wagon and forgetting everything I didn't write down and feeling sticky all the time. He is more mine than anything has ever been.
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