Genki Sounds - 7 Weeks, 6 Days

Baby Bear, I must say, you have many sounds. We already know you like to cry at night. You wake up like a Swiss clock around midnight and sing to your mama for hours. Of course, we think you are singing rock n roll. Your crying voice is so loud.

Then other times you have such a sweet quiet voice when you are talking to yourself. I think you must be testing out all the new sounds you can make. This is one of my favorite times. I sit and listen to you burble and coo through different sounds and it melts my heart.

When we are lucky, you are making one of the sweetest sounds we know: your snoring. I didn't think such a big snore could come out of your little button nose, but it does. Sometimes you sleep so deeply and your snore is repeating so perfectly, I think it must be a computer loop.

Sometimes the sounds don't come from your mouth or nose....they come from a little bit lower. How can you fart so loud? It must make you feel wonderful because your face looks so calm after you fart.

The only sound I don't like is when you make no sound at all. I hate that. I always want to hear your breathing or your sweet voice. I don't always want to hear the crying, but that is better than no sound. When I carry you in the Baby Bjorn, you stick your nose flat against my chest. I can't see if you are breathing and it drives me crazy.

But you know that. You know it drives us crazy when you scream at night. You know it drives us crazy when you spit out all the milk we gave you. You know it drives us crazy when you poop into the diaper we just changed.

It drives us crazy, but we love you. Of course we do. When you get a little bit older, I'll probably tell you to "be quiet" a lot. Don't get too angry. We are saving all of our "be quiets" now to tell you later.