House Husbands

Everything these days seems to be “nothing”. What do you want? “Nothing”. Who did you play with? “Nothing”.

You also sleep in child pose.

I don’t know how to categorize this; but tonight, at the Diwali dinner, we found your clone. Your and this other little girl were dressed and acting so similar that both parents were confused. In a crowd of several hundred, that could have been scary if a parent started tracking the wrong little girl.

So before you were born, Daddy used to travel to conferences a couple times a year. But then just after you we’re born, daddy lost that job and didn’t travel at all. Until now. Now daddy’s job has him traveling quite a bit and tonight after dropping you off at Ma’s, you wanted extra hugs because you might not see daddy for a whole day.

We got a chance to sit and enjoy our new fireplace today, quietly watching the fireplace. You lamented missing the old house because you miss our old trees with all their colors, as well as the stained glass on our old door. But after hearing that we can put all manner of stickers on our new door, demeanors improved. Change isn’t easy for anyone, but you seem to be dealing with it well.

This last week, on your own, you started drawing and writing books in your own! Shots to follow.

It’s very odd thinking back only a few months. A few months ago, we were making some choices as to what you were going do, but in just the last few weeks, you’ve started to make choices for yourself mostly about where you are sleeping over on the weekend (or if we are going to have a “family sleep”). With this week also being the first proper week of Pre-School,it also struck me that in a year, you’ll be in kindergarten. I can only imagine what manner of decisions you’ll be making in a year.

Well, the last post here has me saying that I was hoping to catch up in the fall. And so here I am, catching up… Three years later.

So what happened over the last three years? Lots! We went from a little bundle of joy that needed constant attention to carting around a beautiful little three-teen in a new house with Mom and Dad in new positions and us all in a new house.

Many of the little things that have happened haven’t been always recorded for the public, but certainly in Facebook and in photos. So what I’m going to try to do is go back over all the pictures and add the stories here.

Hopefully, this time, the whole thing sticks.

Well, it seems that I’ve fallen behind on this project, but what I’m going to try to do now is to include some stories about and around the audio and video that have been captured. If I do a month a week, I should be back on track by the time fall rolls around.

Oh boy, you started to let us know that you wanted to get out on Mom’s birthday, and for the next few days you started to stretch and move to make your way onto the world. On your birthday, it was the coldest day of the year -39deg C.

Thst morning, your Ma, Mamaji, Mamiji

These are some of the things that have missed being recorded in some way or another -

• nights
• never touching the ground
• bug, pookie, boo, snarfle,peanut
• grandma helping out, dad taking the first three weeks off
• hospital stories – phone
• Naomi wanting to play with you
• the phone calls! (asking who is this first)
• nurses at the hospital
• cold cold weather
• eating like a star with one hand on the side

12hs into dadhood – amazed (at life), affected (by sleep dep), afraid (of not being able to protect her) – looking forward to 12 more hours.

Well, this has been an impatient week for Mom and I, as I type this, we are watching Finding Nemo, wondering for the 5th night if you are going to decide to join us or not.