Strength & Pancakes & Valentine's

February 12, 2025 — 9:04pm

Dear Reese,

Tonight you were planking in the kitchen: your whole body off the ground except for your hands and toes. I don’t know how long it will take you to crawl instead of scoot but you definitely have the strength for it.

You display that strength at every diaper change. I swear last night it took ten minutes to get you diapered and into your pajamas after your bath and your teacher said it took two adults to change your diaper one day this week. You twist and writhe and are ready to go.

Unless, of course, you want to be held. You scoot up my feet while I make us breakfast for dinner, whining until I pick you back up. I rest you on my hip while I make scrambled eggs and try to butter an Eggo one-handed. You love Eggos, and french toast, and pancakes. I send you to daycare with an apple puree and teething crackers and your teacher said you weren’t interested in food until someone gave you a pancake.

I get it. I love pancakes too.

In other news, I did my homework tonight and put together the Valentine’s for your class. Since you don’t attend on Fridays (actual Valentine’s Day), I’ll drop them off with you in the morning.

For your first Valentine’s exchange, I sign your name to Spider-Man cards attached to individual bags of Gerber baby snack puffs (as recommended by a coworker). Some of the younger babies will have to wait a few months to enjoy the puffs, but at least I have demonstrated effort as a parent. I even tediously affixed the included Spidey stickers to the inside of the Spider-Man cards even though no one is at sticker age yet. But everyone is always at Spider-Man age.

Love,

Mama