One Month With McKenna

Dear McKenna,

It’s been one fast month since you joined us and it’s time you learned that your mom’s parenting bar is low - this is why you won’t have a baby book.

But don’t worry. This isn’t a second-child shaft. The bar was low for your brother too.

We should probably also start talking about your monthly rent... but I digress...

Things we know about you:

• You can tune out your brother’s screams and your fur-sister’s barking
• You’re not as into the paci situation as your brother (he’ll gladly take your rejects but we’ve kept him clean for 9 months and have to watch him)
• You love: snuggles, being held... especially during hours that finds most college students closing out their tabs, being warm and looking around and at your mommy and daddy and big brother
• You can: Fart/burp louder than your dad and brother, lift and turn your head, escalate a hunger or burp situation with a raptor-like squeal

Here are things you can tell your therapist when you’re older (maybe you can get a 2-for-1 with your brother):

• We changed your diaper - an unforgivable offense
• We also gave you a bath...

This is new...

Umm...

I. AM. DISPLEASED.

• Einstein baby? More like Bravo baby 🤩
• We made you do tummy time so you can hold your head up one day
• Special guest therapy contributor: the perma-hand impression on your head was from Jase force-feeding you a paci 

Here’s the list for our therapist (which we’ll be able to afford (maybe) in 20-something years):

• After a midnight projectile vomit, your dad takes cover any time it’s time to burp you
• You taught me that catching pee with your hands is not a skill reserved just for parents of boys... thankfully your brother made me an expert in this area
• You’ve set new household records of destroying a new diaper before it was even put on...
• Your cord came off in the middle of the night - instigating the a search and retrieve mission that will scar me for months... less so than if the dog were to find it first 

All in all, you’ve settled in to complete our family and we can’t wait for the adventures ahead.

Love,

Mommy and Daddy