Child Prodigy? Or Not.

We hadn’t planned on starting this blog until the baby arrived, but we are being constantly amazed by it already, and so it seems wrong to wait to start documenting and sharing these things until it is born. So what is it this child is doing that is so amazing, you ask? I swear today I was convinced that it was dancing. I was writing and started to go a little stir crazy with the silence in the apartment and so decided to turn on music. And as soon as I turned on the music the baby started moving around a lot and kicking. Now, it is very possible that it wasn’t so much a dancing as an “Ah, Mom, I was sleeeeeeping. Stop the noise.” but I’m choosing to believe instead that our little Peanut was dancing to the music. Either way, it constantly amazes me how tuned in it is to what is going on out here and how it can react to it.

So what else can the child prodigy do? Well, not much that we know of yet. It is pretty adept at communicating in no uncertain terms when it is hungry, though, which is something I didn’t know it could do before being able to cry. And a doctor can probably set me straight that it is actually a reaction to a drop in blood sugar or something rather than hunger per se, but all I know is that sometimes when I’m not hungry at all I will feel pain that tells me that I must eat immediately. But it feels different from the normal hungry feeling, in a way I can’t articulate. And whereas when I feel hungry I can talk myself out of it, there is no talking myself (or the baby) out of this hungry, or even postponing. I must stop whatever I am doing and eat immediately or I will have no peace. But a few handfuls of peanuts (the actual kind—notice the lowercase) and a few minutes later I’m fine. Really, who knew children could be so demanding and stubborn in utero?

Okay, so all the parents out there are laughing at how naïve we are. I have to admit, I’m embarrassed to admit my shock because I feel like this is stuff I was supposed to know. But, really, all those childhood development classes and workshops I’ve sat through over the years covered development from birth at the very earliest, and most focused on the toddler or elementary-school years. So expect many more “duh” moments on this blog. We’re in for an adventure. Check in and enjoy. Or laugh at us. That is completely acceptable too. Goodness knows we laugh at ourselves, and I’m sure the baby will too as soon as it can (and, for all we know, it may be laughing right now). Smart kid.