Parental Advice

Parents love to give advice to people who are going to be parents.

And I eat that shit up. 

The secret to getting your baby to sleep through the night? 
Do tell. 

How to avoid getting peed on every time I change a diaper?
Details, please.

Balance baby, house and work without having a mental breakdown?
I'm all ears.

But the biggest piece of 'advice' we've gotten over and over as we've been sharing and talking about our news has been just three simple words. 

It goes down like this: parents give each other a knowing look that only those who have been in the trenches can understand, look at us and smile and simply say:

Just. You. Wait.

(cue the maniacal laughter)

However, this has been the advice that makes the most sense to me.

We will have to wait. We have to wait to see what type of little person this baby turns out to be. 

While some parents have told me horror stories of their babies 'just not sleeping for more than 3 hours at a time, even at 8 months!', (lord help me!), both Mr. KK and I were FANTASTIC sleepers at a very early age, sleeping through the night with no problems.

What about the babies who get their hands into everything, the minute they're mobile? One of my favorite stories from my mother-in-law is that when Mr. KK was a baby, she would sit him down on the floor in the kitchen in front of the refrigerator, and come back 45 minutes later and he was still there…he never moved a muscle.

We may have a sleeper or a night owl. 

A foodie or a picker eater. 

A talker or the silent type.

A crier or a self-soother.

A smiler or a frowner.

A joker or a deep thinker.

But no matter what we have, he's ours, and we'll figure him out along the way, just like everybody else.

And we won't be able to wait until the day, when we can look anxious parents-to-be in the eye and say, "Just you wait!"

And then collapse into fits of evil laughter.