Wake up Call

The house is quite as Dax plays quietly and Wyatt sleeps soundly in his room.

Suddenly, Wyatt wakes up and he’s happy. He chatters softly and squeals at his animals in his crib.

Realizing Wyatt is awake, Dax takes off down the hallway towards his room; the area of the house he has been forbidden to play in for the past hour in a half.

I follow closely behind reminding Dax to be soft as he barges into Wyatt’s room.

As soon as the door opens, Wyatt stops talking and listens and waits.

Dax climbs onto the crib and peers over the side.

Wyatt starts squealing again and kicks his legs and flails his arm.

Dax looks back for me to inform me, “Wyatt’s awake, mom”.

Then he looks back down at Wyatt and says “Hi Baby” five times in a row.

Wyatt smiles and keeps kicking and flailing.

Dax says, “Wyatt’s happy to see me, mom.”

I say, “Yes!”

Dax says, “Pick Wyatt up, mom”

I pick Wyatt up and proceed to kiss his face off.

I kneel down so Dax can kiss his face off.

Dax says, “He’s proud of you, mom.”

Dax goes running out of the room.

Wyatt and I follow.

We find Dax sitting on the couch with his arms out, “I hold him, mom.”

I sit Wyatt in Dax’s lap and they both smile at me.

Then Dax says, “Take a picture of us, mom”

I get the camera and snap away until Dax pushes Wyatt off his lap and says, “You hold Wyatt, mom” so he can see the pictures I took.

Wyatt whines because Dax manhandles him.

Dax says "Wyatt's tired again, mom".

Then I go into a mini-speech that includes how "we need to be soft" , "Wyatt's just a little baby" and "when he squeals you need to stop whatever you are doing to him".

Dax says, "Okay, mom"

Then the same things happens at least one more time each and every day. You can imagine the number of pictures I have of these two sitting on the couch!