Hello Dear Readers!
After a month long forced (by work) hiatus I am back and the blog is better than ever! Two major things have changed:
1. A new look! Hope you like it. If you have trouble with readability let me know.
2. Now you can receive email updates when there are new posts. Look up and to your right and you will see a place to submit your email address to receive said updates. Now you don't have to check back to this page only to be disappointed that there is nothing new!
After accomplishing these changes, I think I now have the internet literacy of a 12 year old.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Here are a couple dated posts I didn't finish:
Sorry about my drop off recently. School has started and the first month back is always challenging and extremely time consuming. Anyway, in the last month so much has happened that I have not written about! I started on a couple posts a month ago that now seem really dated, but I think you will enjoy them. Just imagine they were written in August when Kai was 3 months old:
Funny Guy Dad (8/24/11)
So I seem to already be shaping my role as funny guy dad, which is great because it means I am on my way to cultivating an appreciate audience for my corny jokes. Linda laughs at my jokes, but then scolds herself for doing so. Kai, on the other hand, can be an audience of completely uninhibited laughter and without regretting it later.
The signs have been building to where now I can pretty effectively get smiles and near laughs out of him. About a month ago Linda, Kai and I were sleeping with Kai on my chest, and suddenly he let out this peal of laughter! Both Linda and my eyes nearly popped out of our heads with excitement, but we hadn't been able to get a repeat performance--sleeping or awake. Until yesterday!
Last night as I was stripping Kai down for his bath and we were goofing around with him lying on his changing table he let out a big old giggle! I exclaimed "Oh my goodness!" and Linda ran into the room thinking maybe he'd peed or pooped on me. I told her he'd laughed and I tried to get a second one out of him. Sure enough, moments late a bigger, even longer giggle burst out of his chest! This just sent me into hysterics flapping my arms around and hopping up and down with squeals of excitement (like son like father?). During most of this Kai had one of his more curious looks on his face that asks "What are you doing?"
The latest incident came minutes ago when Kai was fussing in his bassinet and I went to get him to see what he needed. The room was completely dark and he seemed largely unresponsive to me picking him up until we stepped into the light of the living room. As soon as he saw my illuminated face his whole face brightened up like the sun and a huge smile spread over him. Precious! Soon he was yapping away and smiling and goo-gooing at me ready to have play time. I knew he was hungry so I gave him to Linda to nurse, but he just kept staring at me and with his eyes that said "Let's play Da-da!" When we set him on the Boppy in nursing position he took no interest in feeding and instead was intent on me hearing the latest jokes he had been working on while I was gone during the day. Need I say they were hilarious?
I am truly reveling in this time where there truly is nothing he can do wrong and thus nothing I can be upset at. Sure, I can be annoyed but that's solely my problem. For a while, no discipline exists, which means I can be the funny dad lots of the time and stern disciplinary dad none of the time! What a wonderful time.
Impermanence and Change (8/27/11)
A few days ago Linda said to me "I never understood impermanence and change like I do now having Kai." It is amazing how much watching the growing and maturing of a child from in the womb, to infancy, to babyhood, and on through childhood teaches you about impermanence and change. You realize just how few absolutes there really are. When Kai was a month old sometimes I would say "Kai is an easy baby," which always made Linda feel uncomfortable. "It's still really early" she would say. I would concede and hope his trend of easiness would hold out. Nevertheless, to say "Kai is easy" turns Kai into a noun being defined and how can you really define a person? Greater minds could make a great philosophical, semantic, and ontological exploration here. I have baby brain.
Funny Guy Dad (8/24/11)
So I seem to already be shaping my role as funny guy dad, which is great because it means I am on my way to cultivating an appreciate audience for my corny jokes. Linda laughs at my jokes, but then scolds herself for doing so. Kai, on the other hand, can be an audience of completely uninhibited laughter and without regretting it later.
The signs have been building to where now I can pretty effectively get smiles and near laughs out of him. About a month ago Linda, Kai and I were sleeping with Kai on my chest, and suddenly he let out this peal of laughter! Both Linda and my eyes nearly popped out of our heads with excitement, but we hadn't been able to get a repeat performance--sleeping or awake. Until yesterday!
Last night as I was stripping Kai down for his bath and we were goofing around with him lying on his changing table he let out a big old giggle! I exclaimed "Oh my goodness!" and Linda ran into the room thinking maybe he'd peed or pooped on me. I told her he'd laughed and I tried to get a second one out of him. Sure enough, moments late a bigger, even longer giggle burst out of his chest! This just sent me into hysterics flapping my arms around and hopping up and down with squeals of excitement (like son like father?). During most of this Kai had one of his more curious looks on his face that asks "What are you doing?"
The latest incident came minutes ago when Kai was fussing in his bassinet and I went to get him to see what he needed. The room was completely dark and he seemed largely unresponsive to me picking him up until we stepped into the light of the living room. As soon as he saw my illuminated face his whole face brightened up like the sun and a huge smile spread over him. Precious! Soon he was yapping away and smiling and goo-gooing at me ready to have play time. I knew he was hungry so I gave him to Linda to nurse, but he just kept staring at me and with his eyes that said "Let's play Da-da!" When we set him on the Boppy in nursing position he took no interest in feeding and instead was intent on me hearing the latest jokes he had been working on while I was gone during the day. Need I say they were hilarious?
I am truly reveling in this time where there truly is nothing he can do wrong and thus nothing I can be upset at. Sure, I can be annoyed but that's solely my problem. For a while, no discipline exists, which means I can be the funny dad lots of the time and stern disciplinary dad none of the time! What a wonderful time.
Impermanence and Change (8/27/11)
A few days ago Linda said to me "I never understood impermanence and change like I do now having Kai." It is amazing how much watching the growing and maturing of a child from in the womb, to infancy, to babyhood, and on through childhood teaches you about impermanence and change. You realize just how few absolutes there really are. When Kai was a month old sometimes I would say "Kai is an easy baby," which always made Linda feel uncomfortable. "It's still really early" she would say. I would concede and hope his trend of easiness would hold out. Nevertheless, to say "Kai is easy" turns Kai into a noun being defined and how can you really define a person? Greater minds could make a great philosophical, semantic, and ontological exploration here. I have baby brain.
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