I always thought babies cried for 2 real reasons. Either they are tired or hungry. Coincidentally, these are the 2 reasons I generally cry. For Gemma both are fairly easily solved either by a boob in the face (my wife's, not mine, or Henry's, although Henry has tried if you read my earlier post.), or by putting the baby to sleep. I could make some crude comment about a boob in the face stopping me from crying here, but I am going to avoid that and take the high road.
Today, I discovered the other reason babies cry. We were at the new swimming pool in Sioux Falls. For those of you who live in the Sioux Falls Metropolitan Area, it is located at Cliff and 10th Street, across from Bucks Muffler, in the heart of the Ghetto. For those of you who do not know the area, Sioux Falls does have a small ghetto, but on a danger scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being North Minneapolis, it is about a 2.
This brand new pool is very nice, and has a "Lazy River," where you sit on a tube and float with the current in a circle. For those of you from Minneapolis or Detroit Lakes, MN, the tubing on this lazy river is like tubing on the Otter Tail, or the Apple River, but without the scenery, the beer, the topless women on July 4th, or the leeches and snapping turtles. Instead your scenery is the parking lot, a busy road and a plastic giraffe that spits water at you, which incidentally Henry loved.
Marisa and Henry went on the lazy river, while our 4 month old, Gemma, stayed with me. We stood nicely at the side of the lazy river and waved at Marisa and Henry when they went by, taking in the awesome scenery.
Gemma was content being held by me for about 5 minutes before deciding she was bored! She looked around, glanced at me, took one last look at the floor before I swear I heard her sigh. It was the kind of sigh my wife gives when I tell her a very important piece of sports trivia, which for some reason she finds less than scintillating (I can't understand why). Then Gemma burst into tears. Purely out of boredom. When we walked elsewhere, she was fine, but once we stood in 1 spot for 2 more minutes, and again I heard that familiar sigh, followed by crying.
I realized that sometimes I can bore even my 4 month old, and that made me feel like a very unexciting person. So for any new Dad out there, there is a 3rd reason for tears from a baby... boredom.
On a side note, Gemma at some cereal for the 1st time today, and I think she was very excited to eat something that was not breast milk for the 1st time. Henry's 1st feeding ended in food everywhere. Gemma gobbled it all up! Hungry girl.
Today, I discovered the other reason babies cry. We were at the new swimming pool in Sioux Falls. For those of you who live in the Sioux Falls Metropolitan Area, it is located at Cliff and 10th Street, across from Bucks Muffler, in the heart of the Ghetto. For those of you who do not know the area, Sioux Falls does have a small ghetto, but on a danger scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being North Minneapolis, it is about a 2.
This brand new pool is very nice, and has a "Lazy River," where you sit on a tube and float with the current in a circle. For those of you from Minneapolis or Detroit Lakes, MN, the tubing on this lazy river is like tubing on the Otter Tail, or the Apple River, but without the scenery, the beer, the topless women on July 4th, or the leeches and snapping turtles. Instead your scenery is the parking lot, a busy road and a plastic giraffe that spits water at you, which incidentally Henry loved.
Marisa and Henry went on the lazy river, while our 4 month old, Gemma, stayed with me. We stood nicely at the side of the lazy river and waved at Marisa and Henry when they went by, taking in the awesome scenery.
Gemma was content being held by me for about 5 minutes before deciding she was bored! She looked around, glanced at me, took one last look at the floor before I swear I heard her sigh. It was the kind of sigh my wife gives when I tell her a very important piece of sports trivia, which for some reason she finds less than scintillating (I can't understand why). Then Gemma burst into tears. Purely out of boredom. When we walked elsewhere, she was fine, but once we stood in 1 spot for 2 more minutes, and again I heard that familiar sigh, followed by crying.
I realized that sometimes I can bore even my 4 month old, and that made me feel like a very unexciting person. So for any new Dad out there, there is a 3rd reason for tears from a baby... boredom.
On a side note, Gemma at some cereal for the 1st time today, and I think she was very excited to eat something that was not breast milk for the 1st time. Henry's 1st feeding ended in food everywhere. Gemma gobbled it all up! Hungry girl.
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