...until my boy turns 1. Time has flown by and now neither Hubs nor I can imagine what our life was like before him. He has brought us out of ourselves in a way neither of us could explain but that anyone who is a parent can totally understand. When you have someone who is totally dependent upon you to feed, dress, entertain, change diapers, put to sleep, etc. you realize what you are capable of. You may be sick, sad, angry, or whatever but that creature still needs you. So you get up and do because you have to and because that big ol' smile is the highlight of your day. In fact, I credit my little boy (and God, of course) with my life because at one point during my postpartum depression (which medicine DOES help, Tom Cruise!) I was suicidal. I was ready to drive my car off the bridge and into the Tar River more than once but I didn't because my boy was in the car with me at all those times. I would not go back to that feeling for all the money in the world, by the way.
So what is Wonder Child (as my stepdad calls him) up to these days? Being his sweet, spoiled rotten self! His dad uses the word tremendo, which is about the Spanish equivalent to saying he's a mess or he's full of himself. He is in a Dad-only phase, meaning that apart from the nursing bit, he wants to be w/ Hubs 24/7. If it's just Daniel and me at home, that's fine, but the second Hubs appears, it's adios to Mom. What else....oh yes, everything that can be pushed along the floor (which is a lot of stuff) is now a car. He pushes whatever it is along and says "bbbbrrrrrrm". Everything with buttons on it is a telephone to be put to his ear and screamed into. His current favorite is "HEY!" at the top of his lungs. We have one of those plastic boxes with different shapes cut out and the little shapes that fit into them to help them learn what fits where...he's getting the hang of it. Yesterday he put the circle in the round hole and the square in the square hole. Just to prove it wasn't a fluke, he repeated it today and then some! He has decided that he's way too big for Gerber so now we're eating big-boy food with our 6 teeth. We only eat some of the Gerber desserts, other than that, he's purely on table food. So now I have to cook, whether I like it or not. Again, one of those things that you do because the creature depends on you!
Breaking from the mold a little (we do like to live dangerously sometimes), I'm going to list my favorite movies. Sad when that's your idea of living dangerously. So, by category, these are my favorites:
Drama: Forrest Gump, Dead Poets Society, Life is Beautiful, Children of Heaven (made in Iran, very good)
Comedy: What About Bob, Austin Powers (only the first), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Good Morning Vietnam (could also be drama)
Chick flick: Steel Magnolias (was there any doubt?)
Films to not waste your time on: Monster (the one about Aileen Wuornos the female serial killer in Florida), Y Tu Mama Tambien, Army of Darkness (this last category I guess you could say includes my least favorite films).
You'll notice that I have not included action movies. First, because I'm not crazy about too many of them. Second, Hubs is. So when he gives me his list of favorites to post, we'll more than make up for their absence in my listing! So that's the news from our piece of paradise in eastern NC.
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