Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Primary Caregiver

Jay is adapting well to being the primary caregiver. Right now he looks like death warmed over, so I assume that means he's experiencing all of the joys and woes of providing for a newborn.

When Jay went to the pediatrician with Jamie last week, he was the only adult male in the waiting room, and, of course, this aroused much curiosity with the women there. Leave it to Jay to attract women from the very fact that he's married with a newborn. The doctor was impressed with Jay's parenting skills as well, although Jay mentioned that there were a couple of things he felt unsure about. For example, when the doctor said to put cereal in Jamie's bottle, Jay's first thought was "Okay, I know you don't mean Cheerios." Having never been around a baby before, Jay simply didn't think about baby cereal. When I was teasing Jay about that, he said "I haven't gotten that far in my books." Now, of course, he's measuring baby cereal in his perpetual half-sleep state. . .

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