A Newborn Chimp is STILL Smarter Than My Baby?

For a few days I've struggled with why in the world newborn babies in the Animal Kingdom are so much more agile, mobile, and physically capable at birth than my little one. Our supposed closest relative, the chimpanzee, can nimbly swing up and cling to his mother as she travels through the tree tops. Yet my "more advanced" species-boy is just now, at 4.5 months old, sitting up with assistance and topples over if left unattended. What in the world??

So I found this article that outlines the theory that because of our big brains, there's more developing to do outside of the womb. Essentially, if I'm understanding it correctly, humans are born early so that they can fit that huge noggin through the birth canal. But don't you think that consistent early delivery would be fatal to infants? I mean, just a hundred years ago we didn't have the technology to keep premature babies alive.

Anyway, if you have a minute, read it and let me know what you think. And yes, this means you, Mikey. :)

Memory Monday

Proverbs 4:23

"Keep your heart with all vigilance for from it flow the springs of life."

My Beach Boy

Thumbody Special

Memory Monday

Colossians 3:1-3

"If you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God."

I've Acquired Some MORE New Skills...

Read here about the skills I acquired while pregnant.

While a lot of these are still in the making, here are a few I've added as a new Momma:

• Whittling down the time it takes to get out the door from 20 min. to about 3
• Diaper changes in pitch darkness
• Sleeping on my back because it's easier to get out of bed from a deep sleep
• Holding him in my arms just right so his arm is around my side and not crushed or twisted
• Putting him in his car seat without bashing his head
• Putting him in his car seat and buckling in, like, 45 seconds
• Learning that he likes to be held facing outward so he can see stuff
• Supplying a full course "meal" in the 2x2 foot space in the back seat of the Honda
• Telling the difference between a pain cry, ooching cry, hungry cry, tired cry, etc. (still honing that one... not as easy as I expected)
• Knowing where every creaky floorboard is located in our entire house
• No more theater movies. Netflix is king.
• Living a very full and happy life, sleep deprived
• Realizing that Saturdays are not the Saturdays of yore
• Trying to pray specifically and a WHOLE lot more
• Praying that I won't pray for selfish reasons (i.e. "Please Lord, let him sleep so I can watch this dumb thing on TV")
• Realizing HOW patience is given. Definitely not the magical osmosis way I had hoped for.
• Realizing that this is probably the greatest and most wonderful adventure we could have ever embarked upon.

4 Months Ago

Really? This was 4 months ago?? We're gonna be parallel parking here soon...