Leading up to the Christmas holidays our little guy, Baby “X” or the “X-man” was quite sick for a number of days. My wife, having just returned to work fresh off maternity leave a couple of months prior, didn’t have any vacation days or sick days accumulated to be able to stay home and look after him. She spent the whole first year of Baby “X’s” life with him while on maternity leave, and as a result she had always been his favourite — especially when he wasn’t feeling well — so normally she would have stayed home with him.
The silver lining to this little scenario was Daddy getting to stay home with “X” for three whole days. Which, as I realized afterwards was the longest period of one-on-one time I had ever had with him. He had almost a constant fever that I would cyclically keep at bay with baby Tylenol. As a result, he had lulls where he felt miserable and just wanted to be held, and peaks when we played and laughed. He’s such a funny little boy.
Wow. Did we ever bond over those three days.
I was lucky enough to be able to take three months paternity leave with Little “L” when he was a baby, and we bonded wonderfully. But with “L” now old enough to be in daycare our daily schedules just wouldn’t have allowed for me to take leave with “X”. I was convinced that it would take me the same three month of one-on-one time with “X” to be able to catch-up, so to speak.
Three days.
Mommy’s still his first choice… overall. But now there are many times where he will come to me first.
And I love it.
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steelie
Holy poop your children are adorable. No seriously, they're going to be studs and break hearts all through high school. :)And yay for you getting some quality X time.
i have to agree with Jared! your boys are not just adorable, but are delicious! for me, there is nothing sexier than a man who TRULY loves their children. hats of to you! love your new friend and a new mom 🙂