Bye Bye.

Sam's been getting up earlier and earlier, lately. So, after Craig gets out of his shower, he goes into Sam's room and picks him up and brings him to me and I nurse him in bed while Craig gets dressed and has breakfast and so on. Well, today, Sam was totally distracted by every move his dad was making. He'd push me away and pop up and look around. "Dad? Dad? Dad!!!! I hear you in the kitchen. Where ARRRRRRRRE you?" So, I called Craig back into the room, and when Sam saw his face he just started grinning and hyperventilating a little bit.

Craig was like, "Oh man. I just want to stay here all day with you guys." And I said, well, why don't you stay for a minute or 2 and cuddle. It won't make such a huge difference to your work if you're one minute later than ususal, but it will to you and to Sam. So he did, and I of course immediately seized the opportunity to briefly leave.

I come back into the room after 60 seconds -- tops -- and Craig says "honey, come look!" Then he demonstrates how in the brief time that I was in the bathroom, he got Sam to wave bye bye for the very first time.

And those 60 seconds of procrastination were deliciously sweet.