OK, I know every mother thinks her baby is the cutest baby in the world, but mine really is.
End of discussion.

Sami does THE cutest thing when he falls asleep nursing and pulls off my boob. He’ll keep working his little jaw like he’s nursing a phantom boob. He also makes these funny little babbling sounds when he starts nursing. SO adorable… just had to share!

Today was a bizarrely unseasonal 61 degrees in Washington, DC in January. Yay for global warming! I took Sami out for our second-ever postpartum walk– to the post office to return some nursing shirts. I loved that I didn’t have to worry about him getting too cold. I was going to carry him in the fleece pouch but I thought it might be too hot, and that it might hurt my back, so I took him out in the snap-n-go. I would rather carry him if possible–negotiating that flimsy stroller over the decrepit DC sidewalks was kinda scary. I think that stroller is meant for the mall or something.

Anyway, to be honest, it felt kinda weird to be pushing a baby in a stroller. Not bad weird–I mean I was gazing at Sami, who promptly fell asleep, and loving his peaceful sleeping face–just, well strange, to be a stroller-pushing mama. It was the first time I ever did it (on the other walk I carried him in the fleece pouch). I remember pre-pregnancy, I never used to look at women pushing babies in strollers. I simply didn’t see them. Then when I got pregnant, I spotted stroller-pushing mamas from a mile away. I was obsessed — how old was the baby? What kind of stroller was it? I even stopped mamas on the street to ask them about their strollers. Now, I am one of them. We are a tribe. Every time I passed another stroller-pushing mama on the street, we smiled at one another.

Anyway, it felt so good to get some exercise — we have to do this more often! If the cold ever comes back… I’ll just bundle him up really well.

In other news, today I finally figured out how to wear Sami in the Babyhawk mei tai I bought for him! I had been kind of intimidated by all the straps, but now that my little man is almost 9 lbs and sturdier, I thought I’d try it. And I totally got it! It was actually easy. And it feels way easier on my upper back than the pouch, although the pouch is more snuggly. I think he liked it too, although he was kind of cranky/hungry, so I can’t tell.

So…today has been a good day. It feels so weird to have the windows open in January.

In non-Sami news (is there such a thing?) I am trying to read Mother of Sorrows by my creative writing professor, Richard McCann. But it’s so hard to actually hold the book and turn the pages while nursing. I need a book-stand!

The other book I’m reading right now is It’s a Boy: Women Writers on Raising Sons… fun essays.