good morning mommy

aren't these guys the most handsome in all the world? when i went back to work, joey and i decided that in the interest of keeping h out of daycare for as much of the day as possible we would stagger our work schedules so that joey leaves late in the morning with henry to drop him off at daycare and i get off work early in the afternoon to pick him up as early as possible. about once a week, joey texts me a precious picture of the two of them carrying out their morning routine together, which joey tells me consists of exactly 8 tasks - the last of which includes shutting the front door. i know, so cute, right? sometimes, after a particularly ragged up.all.nighter, joey will text me a picture of huck looking extra perfect with a little "i'm sorry mommy" note below. heartbreaker! lately, though, henry's been sleeping like a champion most nights, so when i'm ready to head out the door in the mornings i miss him so much i can hardly stand to leave. who would have guessed there would be a day that i genuinely missed our midnight feedings? not i. so on the mornings after a full night sleep it takes every stitch of strength i can muster so early in the morning to pass his room without risking his creeky door for a goodbye kiss before i go. the other morning, his sweet little face on the monitor, sleeping soundly, was calling to me so loudly i couldn't help myself! so i stopped outside his door, counted to two as i tried to calm my love-sick mommy heart, but i still couldn't get that face out of my head, and that cute diapered tush resting on his heels like the most perfect baby you've seen in your life. so i opened the door, ever so gently... because it sticks! every time! and man do i hate that door, because that morning it popped open with a loud smack as the hinge released from the position it'd been resting in all night. and the second i stepped into his room, henry's head popped up, his eyes roaming the room for the source of the sound that startled him awake. and then, because the poor kid was in the dark, recently awake, and because mom's shadow was still peeking at him from the dimly lit hallway, he started to cry. dang it! wide awake he was, a full half hour before joey's alarm goes off in the morning.

the message i got with this picture that morning wasn't as nice as they usually are :) but i can't blame them. no more goodbye kisses for mama. that's what they think ;)