This is What It's All About

Usually when we get home in the afternoon, Gavin is pretty cranky, and it's just a matter of holding out to an appropriate hour to put him to sleep for the night. But the last two nights have been so much fun with him. He's been happily exploring, eating his dinner, and doing all the things you'd hope to see from an almost-1-year-old. We've been roughhousing and spinning around, playing peek-a-boo, tickling, and chasing, and he's given laughs and squeals of delight.

It makes it so easy to forget the rough time we had last week. I always make the mistake of thinking that everything is an absolute with a baby. So, if Gavin is going through something that makes him cranky and difficult, then I feel like he always has been and always will be impossible, and that's all there is to it. And then when he's happy, I think that I have such a fantastic baby and everything is so easy and so much fun, and it will always be so wonderful. I've been doing this long enough...you'd think I'd know better by now. 

But anyway, for right now, he's being happy, we're having fun, and I'm just really glad.