quick! there has been a brief reprieve in my pregnancy doomsday malaise so i am going to try to give you a blog post until it strikes again. miraculously judah didn't make a peep from 6:45 pm last night until 7 am today. this is miraculous because i was home alone with him while jesse went camping with some youth boys (on the night of the ncaa championship, whaaaa???). i put him (judah) down and put my earplugs in, determined to not jump at every tiny peep. well, at 7 this morning i hear him through 2 doors, earplugs and the fog of sleep in his room, not crying, but jabbering like a fool, "DA DA DA DA DA DA." i wanted to leave the little rapscallion in there until he started asking for mama. so yeah, it's a good day so far. p.s. these pictures aren't cute with rounded edges because, shit takes time, y'all, and i don't know how much i have.
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one of my BFFs, natalie, lives in england and does campus ministry for jesus. she also happens to have a son that is 2 days younger than judah (though gestationally 2 weeks older). they are best friends...they have no choice in the matter. these little guys have hung out amazingly 5 times (since benj lives in england!) in their little 10 month lives. we call them the 2 little tribesmen because judah and benjamin are the names of 2 of the 12 tribes of isreal/sons of jacob. we joke that we will eventually assemble the entire chosen people of god between the two of our uteruses. i think right now we have dibs on naphtali and natalie and robert have called gad and zebulun as theirs. oh, old testament funsies.
10 month homies reunited and it feels so good!
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and here is ye olde flashback for comparison's sake:
5 weeks...hahahahahahaha. please note how teensie benj was




















these little dudes are unreal. it is beyond fun to see them interact and play and just as fun to watch them ignore each other or get in baby drama. judah is the youngest kid in his preschool class by a few months, so this was awesome to see him play with a best friend that is identical in age. surprisingly, even though judah is with kids all day, he was way more of a baby about sharing and getting bumped than benj, who hangs around with adoring college kids daily and doesn't go to preschool. i am gonna blame it on a bad nap that day and it possibly being hard for him to all of a sudden have another baby up in "his" space.
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it's so weird to be starting that phase of watching your kid get upset by one of his friends knocking him down accidentally or taking a toy from him and trying to iron it out at the parental level (where it's probably way more traumatic and delicate). luckily nat is a bestie, so that makes it no worries. even still, they seemed to have a lot of fun playing near and on top of one another...but it was defintely way more fun for me and nat to remember conversations that happened seemingly all of 3 minutes ago when we had tiny apple-sized fetuses and could hardly even imagine holding babies of our own, much less seeing them crawl and climb and play together. ahhhh, the circle of life!
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if god happens to call the braden fam home from england we are hoping they will live nearby so that this little tribal bromance will continue forever and ever. nat and i like to envision cooperative babysitting, co-bday parties, tiniest tee-ball and other dorky mommy dreams.
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time's up. gotta go barf. see ya never.
The foot touching was my favorite part! It's like they got mixed up with who's toes belonged to who.
ReplyDeletei have a hunch you will love our baby's name
ReplyDeletesince elliot refuses to comment I just wanted to tell you what he said.
ReplyDelete"I was reading keight's blog today and it was so damn funny."
"I was all chuckles at work"
"I would have been laughing so hard if I were with those babes."
i haven't seen judah in forever--he's too freakin cute!
ReplyDeletehahaha!! You are the funniest, K8. Best caption writer. I am convinced we could have sold tickets to watch them play because it was so damn cute. FAVE pic is the too stuffing their faces with cheerios with the look of "I can't believe this is allowed!"
ReplyDeletetoo too cute. I love the tribesmen history profile. 10 weeks, babyyy! Then we shall be reunited again.
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ALSO, A bunch of students from England keep talking about this album on facebook (the little lurkers!) .. One of them actually said so very casually, "So, how's Judah doing?" hahaha
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