caramel is not karma.

I did more pictures of R.Galileo.C. He will be 11 months soon (a day after my birthday) and then we’re just a hop, skip and jump away from The Very Big Day. I know age is just a number and birthdays don’t mean anything, but my boy is going to be one! It is crazy, I tell ya. crazy. I am going to have a fun happy party and let the world celebrate the existence of my son.

We never heard back from the baby contest, so I guess Ryland didn’t win, and I think it’s the most shameful thing to ever happen, as if there could possibly be a cuter baby. That contest is fixed, I tell ya! FIXED!

He’s been sick the past few days. At night, he’s wanted me to pretty much hold him the entire night. It has made me very tired, but there is something so sweet and precious and heartwarming about caring for a sick baby. It’s almost like you get to go back to the early days, when they were tiny and you could hold them and they weren’t squirming and trying to get down and getting into everything and just being so independent. He’s feeling better now and I’m glad, for his sake, but I’ll miss these sick nights, of holding him close and making him feel better just because I’m his mommy.

9 thoughts on “caramel is not karma.

  1. DG

    It sounds like you are a wonderful mother. It appears that having Ryland was the best thing for you to have happen.

  2. gina

    Hey Christa! Aidan had a fever of 103 last month. It was scary! I had to put him in the bath tub and he was shivering and stuff. Also, I am such a dumbass, I made the water too cold because I was all freaked out and wanted his fever to go down faster. He was screaming and shivering, and had this kind of “sick eyed” look about him. Poor guy. Then I got what he had a couple days later.

  3. celly belly

    Poor little guy, hope he feels better. So this b-day is the big 3-0, right? welcome to my box, honey! ;-) (Sex & the City reference and NO it’s not sexual)

  4. Jonathan

    Sweet! Happy Birthday, kid. I got here three years before you, but you caught up in the all important offspring producing portion of the race. I will be celebrating your birthday here:

    http://www.mohonk.com

    in upstate New York at a three day offsite with my clients & a couple co-workers. I’ll raise a glass in your honor.

  5. DG

    Jonathon. Wo, that place is cool. Back in the early ,90’s and late 80’s , I used to stay in some neat places.
    Like the Downtown Broadway NY Marriott Marquis and stuff like fly in a company jet. Or spend the weekend fishing in upstate Michigan as “business”. But thats now becoming a long time ago.
    Tell us all about it when you get back!!!
    CB. I think Christa is turning 26, right Christa!?

  6. gina

    Hate to burst your bubble christa, but you are turning 31! Since I am a full 6+ mos. older than you, I don’t mind telling. So, even if you are still doing that -4 yrs. thing, you are going to be 27.

    heheheheh.

  7. christa Post author

    jonathan that is a pretty cool place to be spending my birthday. you didn’t have to go so fancy, but if you can’t be somewhere nice on my birthday, then what’s the point? I hope everyone else will be spending my birthday in fancy places. and thanks for the toast.

    so this maybe might be my 30th birthday or maybe it’s my 27th or my 25th or even my 21st, who knows these days. when I was turning 26 I decided to go backward to 21 and then work my way back up to 25 and then back down. I’ve had so many birthdays since, I am super confused.

    in reality, yes I will be 31. But since I was pregnant and therefore couldn’t properly celebrate my 30th birthday (aka getting very very drunk) I am going to do it this year and I am going to stay in my twenties until I’m dead.

    THANKS A LOT GINA.

  8. Morgan

    Hey Madrid,
    It turns out that the 30’s are pretty much like the 20’s but a little better and a little worse. You figure it out.
    -M