good mooshning.

Posted bycasey coombsPosted inToo lazy to label.

I’ve mentioned before that my alarm clock wears footie pajamas and requires cereal.

When she was tiny I was awoken with demands of rubber nipples and warm milk.

When she was a little bigger I was awoken with her sumo slamming her feet into her mattress.

A little later I was awoken to sweet baby blabber.

She then learned a few words and I was awoken by “OUT OUT OUT” and other various one word demands.

Then there was the day I woke up to her falling out of her crib. Bad day.

After that day I was awoken to her reading books in her bed (she had no idea that she could open the door and wander free, man, those were the days.)

When she discovered that she could open the door, I turned the lock inside out and was awoken to her banging on the door singing various songs about cereal and being let out of her room.

After she no longer wore diapers I was awoken by the potty dance being performed thisclosetomyface.

Currently I am awoken each day to her door opening, followed by her little shuffle to the bathroom down the hall. I hear her ritualistic morning pee followed by a her little shuffle back to my room. I see her crazy bed head bob all the way around my bed where she then puts one hand on the frame, the other grabs onto my blankets and she yanks herself up with a little grunt. Depending on her mood I am either awakened with a kiss on the cheek or a knee to the crotch. I much prefer the kiss on the cheek.

We snuggle in bed for a bit, she always asks if I had good dreams. She tells me hers, then pretends to be a monster under my covers. I pretend to be scared, then the monster turns into a puppy that pulls the covers off of me. OH HOW I DON’T LIKE COVERS PULLED OFF OF ME. Some days the puppy even licks my face. I’m so not a dog person, pretend or real.

This is our little morning routine. I’ll miss it someday when it’s gone, especially the sound of her little shuffle down the hall and the big smile I get every morning when I first open my eyes and see her surrounded by her halo of insanely frizzy hair.

While it still hurts daily that I don’t/can’t/maybe won’t have another child, I’m thankful that I’m able to be around with the one I do have.

moosh zen.

Even though she does pull the covers off of me. Little jerk.

51 thoughts on “good mooshning.”

  3. That picture is stunning. You really should print it and frame it all big like. Look at those perfect curls. This post made me laugh, and cry…and think. I feel in this same boat…and kiss on my almost three year old all day long to stave off time. Love you sweetie.

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  8. I let my 2 year old sleep in my bed sometimes, even though I don’t always sleep as well because I know he won’t always want to cuddle with me.

    I love that picture, she is adorable.

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  11. This makes me realize how lucky we are that my daughter is TERRIFIED of a closed bedroom door. She stays in her room, door wide open, until we tell her it’s OK to come out, for fear that we would make her sleep with it closed.

    SciFi Dads last blog post..Hard

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  13. sometimes i feel so lazy that i let my girls wake me and then i lounge on the couch while they watch tv, then i think of how once they start school, we will be rushed and never have this comfy relaxing morning time EVERY again. and the guilt goes away.

    feeners last blog post..ouch

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  16. She is so adorable. I know her curly hair will someday probably drive her CAH-razy, but the rest of us will be admiring her curls from the sidelines. =)

    I’ll miss our morning routine too, even though it seems a bit brutal right now…

    Marie Greens last blog post..Little Mommy

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  17. Oh there are few worse ways to be woken up than having the covers pulled off of you! Maybe a tornado ripping the roof off of the house would be worse. Maybe. If it was followed by a torrential downpour.

    amandas last blog post..Proud Mama

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  18. Hang in there Casey. You have years and years yet to hope. That sounds bad — but it is good. Take it from this 37-year-old who understands your hurts and sees her time running out.

    Still, I know… nothing will make you feel better. Except maybe a Moosh. 🙂

    Kets last blog post..IPromise, UPromise

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  24. Precious 🙂 I am so looking forward to those days with Maggie. Right now it’s just babbling, which is cute, but I miss our morning snuggles (no more bottle)

    Jens last blog post..protected

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  29. That is the sweetest story. I am in the middle of my first pregnancy and look forward to having those moments myself! I actually remember shuffling into my parents bedroom on weekend morning and crawling in next to my sleeping dad, trying my hardest to lie still and soak up that time next to him. It felt like I lay there for hours but I’m sure in reality it was only a few minutes!

    Ashleys last blog post..Happily in love, waiting for future…

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  31. I either wake to my first born coming from his room saying “Dad! Dad where are you!?” (he’s in a dad phase) or I wake to my DH bringing both kids to me before he goes to work and then my first starts to cry cause he doesn’t want dad to leave. I’m looking forward to retirement now.

    Julie, Cool mom Guides last blog post..Wordless Wednesday

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  33. Oh so precious! I love snuggling with my little man in the mornings… unfortunately he isn’t much into snuggling since he wants to explore! the window! the nightstands! the things hanging on the walls! 😉

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  38. I hope to have a cute morning ritual like that with one of my own some day. I hope that yours is able to be repeated with more little ones, but I’m so glad you got to have it with the moosh, she is precious!

    Erikas last blog post..I’m Back!

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  39. Sigh~ This made me remember all those mornings with my little girl. She’s my exact size now, and they aren’t as snuggly. You get more like a quick kiss and a “Can I borrow your new shoes?” type of thing.

    Enjoy it.

    amy @ milk breaths last blog post..Tooths

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  43. Oh my, I think if I woke up to those curls every morning, I would forgive just about anything, too! I have to tell you – looking at her just kills me! Those CURLS!!! I want to play with her hair!!!

    Thanks so much for stopping by my blog yesterday and for your kind words.

    Eternal Sunshines last blog post..Today’s the Day

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  44. That was beautiful! I cant wait until my girls are crawling into bed with us. Of course, they would have to crawl over a HEAP of clothes on the floor just to get to us!
    LOVE LOVE LOVE the pictures- as always…

    mayas last blog post..A look back

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  47. thanks for guiding me to what i have to look forward to.

    currently, i’m woken up to the grunts & coos in the baby monitor. unless The Mr. gets to her first and i wake to: “do you wanna feed her?”
    (ummmm, she hasn’t eaten in 12 hours, buddy. ya think?)

    oh, and if thelittlebean is as cute as the moosh???
    wow!!!

    enjoy the moments!

    mpotters last blog post..hypocritical oath

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  48. I love this post. Mornings are such fun times with little ones. . . as annoying as it can be waking up to no covers or cold feet on your back or in your face. . . . so fun.
    I’m glad you had a great vacation too! Thanks for all you write, I really enjoy reading it. 🙂

    naomis last blog post..Tagged again. . . and again.

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  49. I’m kind of glad I was an only child, because I had my mom all to myself 🙂 Although I used to wish for a baby sibling every year on my birthday, I now realize how great I had it just by myself.

    also, that picture. so cute.

    Taras last blog post..sunny side up

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