It won't be like this for long

She is officially 3 weeks old tomorrow. I can hardly believe it. We had a few rough nights but all in all she is a terrific baby. I just adore her.

Things are starting to even back out for me personally as well. I managed to drop the 43 pounds I gained during pregnancy in 2.5 weeks out of sheer dumb luck (and water weight). I’m going to try and keep that trend with the scale going and get better than I was before I was pregnant. Hormones are starting to level out again too, which is SUPER nice. After a rough day of being home with a fussy, gassy, uncomfortable little baby girl I just lost control and the hormones took hold and I balled. I sat on the couch, for no reason at all other than hubby was home again so I guess my brain told me that a release at that point was completely called for, and cried and cried and cried. I got up and took a shower and that seemed to get me back to normal again. The next night after he got home from work we were sitting in front of the TV and he had the iTunes open to show me a song he had just downloaded to add to the baby’s playlist. Now I’m not a huge fan of Darius Rucker, but just hearing the first verse I had to tell him to please turn it off. The happy, sentimental, hormonal tears just started flowing.

He didn't have to wake up, he'd been up all night

Lying there in bed and listening to his newborn baby cry

He makes a pot of coffee, he splashes water on his face

His wife gives him a kiss and says it's gonna be okay

It won't be like this for long

One day we'll look back laughing at the week we brought her home

This phase is gonna fly by, so baby just hold on

It won't be like this for long

Four years later 'bout 4:30, she's crawling in their bed

And when he drops her off at pre-school she's clinging to his leg

The teacher peels her off of him, he says, "What can I do?"

She says, "Now don't you worry, this'll only last a week or two"

It won't be like this for long

One day soon you'll drop her off and she won't even know you're gone

This phase is gonna fly by if you can just hold on

It won't be like this for long

Someday soon she'll be a teenager and at times he'll think she hates him

Then he'll walk her down the aisle and raise her veil

But right now she's up and crying and the truth is that he don't mind

As he kisses her goodnight and she says her prayers

He lays down there beside her till her eyes are finally closed

And just watching her it breaks his heart 'cause he already knows

It won't be like this for long

One day soon that little girl is gonna be all grown up and gone

And this phase is gonna fly by, so he's trying to hold on

'Cause it won't be like this for long

It won't be like this for long

Just reading the lyrics now chokes me up. It’s hard to believe you can automatically love someone who needs and takes so much. I get it now. I get it when “they” said that it’s different when it is your baby. I’m a slow learner. Cut me some slack. ;)