One interesting thing I've discovered about parenting is this weird phenomenon of hearing echos of your child calling for you. I wonder if that lasts for as long as you are a parent (or for that matter, even after. Maybe it's worse when you lose a child)? It used to be, obviously, phantom cries. Actually, earlier than that, in the first year or so, it was phantom kicks. Yeah, very odd. I would actually feel him kicking inside me, even though I was looking right at him very much on the outside of me.
Later it was the phantom cries, usually late at night, of course, when you are just starting to relax and you're almost positive he's finally asleep, which, as it turns out, he is.
Now, it's him calling out "Mommy." I just heard it this morning. It's 6 in the morning and I was pretty sure he was asleep, and yet, there it was, very faintly, sleepily, "Mommy is that you?" I checked on him, and low and behold, fast asleep. Weird.
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