Reason #63 – I missed my son’s first steps
Reason #63 – I missed my son’s first steps
Aug 07It is easy to underestimate a baby, thinking “he doesn’t understand” or “he won’t remember.” In fact, the little devils understand and remember a lot more than we give them credit for, and they are more than able to enjoy a bottle of cold, hypoallergenic revenge.
Take my son C, who is an angel for all intents and purposes.
Last weekend I left C in the capable hands of his sitter and his sitter’s mom while I went away on an overnight business trip (it was business, OK? At least some of the time.) He had a brilliant time, and it was even brought to my attention that he didn’t miss me at all while I was away.
How wonderful! What a forgiving happy and independent little boy I have!
Well, it is time to make a disclosure: on my first night away, just as I had finished my workshop, I got a call from home. Everyone was smoking outside or getting drinks, but a few stragglers got to see me bang my head on the nearest table, hollering “NOOOOOO!” on my mobile. Terrified, the organisers approached me after I hung up to ask if everything was alright at home. Was C unwell? Had anything happened? It took me a second to pull myself together and reply:
“C took his first steps.”
C took his first steps on the first night I spent away from him.
If that isn’t revenge I don’t know what is.
Little devil angel, I bet he’s saving his first words for the next time I think of going somewhere without him. And they will be “Bad mom!”
They shouldn’t have told you! When you got home they could have shown you in a way that didnt seem like he already did it. I was working about the time my daughter was doing some firsts and I asked everyone to not tell me (she is my first/only child) so this way I would be excited and believe it was first with me. They were really great about it and if she did something in front of me they were just as excited. (So if she did it before they never let on)
I am sure lots of parents miss the “very” first of a lot of things. This does not make you a bad parent. When you hear/see it for the first time it will be great for you!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 9:08 am
I totally teared up when I saw him take his 5th steps on the following night. I also made it perfectly clear they are to LIE THROUGH THEIR TEETH the next time a “first” happens!
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Poor mom, he’s already learning how to torment you. Watch out, he might try to teach himself how to drive to rob you of the glory.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 9th, 2010 at 7:07 pm
Oh my god, I hadn’t considered that option!! Do you think I’ll be able to negotiate bike riding?
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I’m thinking this is not your fail but his. I mean, c’mon, who does that without their number one fan there to scream and yell and shake her pom-poms? Really.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 9:57 pm
Erm… his number one fan WAS there screaming and shaking pompoms! I fall a distant second to his/my/our beloved babysitter.
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That’s why I don’t have kids. I KNOW my kids would do stuff like that on purpose….. My students always do.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
I hear you: when I was a teacher I swore I’d *never* have kids. Then I left teaching for a few years and kinda forgot how bad it was.
Teaching: the BEST contraception.
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You family sucks for telling you. I would rather then keep it a secret so when I did see him walk I would think it’s the first time. Ignorance is pure bliss.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Hear hear!
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What a little bugger?
The beauty of the first steps are that there will be more- which creates tons of new challenges and adventures to witness. Your next trip away, you may get a call telling you that C’s climbed the house and jumped from the roof. And is currently in the process of doing it again.
I’m told that little boys do this.
And he’s not going to call you a bad mom sweetie- maybe a crap mom, but never bad!
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
You have a point. I bet next time they will call me wherever I am so I can hear C over the phone going “Cap mom! Cap mom!”
Before jumping from the roof.
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Oh no!!! Im sorry momma!! That little stinker. Next time you leave make sure you have a little talk about not doing a “first” while you are gone =P
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Oh but I left him with very clear instructions! He was not to take a step until I returned!
Cutting teeth was totally allowed tho.
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Oh nooooooo!!!!!!! That’s what is screaming in my head right now.
Those little buggers, they just know how to do the important stuff when we’re looking the other way. Or in a different city.
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ofthesea Reply:
August 8th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Or gallivanting in a tourist spot with two young and good-looking guides, not that I was doing that by any stretch of the imagination…
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ofthesea Reply:
August 11th, 2010 at 8:57 am
It’s revenge, I tell you!
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