{"id":1056,"date":"2010-12-14T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2022-02-15T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:10:21","slug":"if-only-we-could-all-fall-asleep-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusandshona.com\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"If Only We Could All Fall Asleep Like This…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Emrick was not quite two weeks old, he flashed his first smile — he was sleeping. For the next several weeks, almost every snooze he took was punctuated with a handful of wide, toothless grins. Maybe he was dreaming, or maybe it was just a reflex of the facial muscles. I don’t know. But even though he obviously wasn’t smiling at<\/em> me<\/em>, it was impossible for me not to smile back. It was like yawning when you see someone else yawn. Except cute.\u00a0Then when he was about six and a half weeks old, I saw his first waking smile. I’m not sure, but it seemed to be directed at the plastic rattle I was waving (obnoxiously) in front of his face. Then less than a week later, he was smiling at people. <\/em>Ever since then, he’s been smiling at us every day. Big, beautiful, vocalization-enhanced smiles. Some days he’s very generous with them, and others he is a little stingy. But even on his stingy days, I can still get my fix by watching for those sleepy smiles he still offers when he nods off in my arms.<\/p>\n

Tonight, when he fell asleep at his bottle of breast milk, he started smiling like crazy. Smiles here, smiles there. He was giving quite a show. So I asked Marcus to get the video camera. Most of his performance was done by that point, but we still managed to catch a grin. Try not to smile at the monitor! You can’t do it!<\/p>\n

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