first of all, batgirl is feeling better. there's still a runny nose going on, but i gather that's the daycare life for you. if violet's immune system is "immature," mine must be downright frat boy. i've been coughing for over two weeks! like up from 3-4am keeping everyone awake coughing. kevin gently pushed the neti pot on me a few days ago, and now that i've got the technique down (and no longer feel like i'm drowning in the ocean), i'm a convert. and finally getting well i think. jinx, right?
so i cried when we said goodbye to violet's first daycare. the older "helpers" who don't speak english suddenly realized that violet was leaving and just erupted with "noooo angelita! no se va!" they grabbed her and showered her with kisses. it was so cute, and even though violet was fried because her morning nap had been sidelined, she had smiles and hugs for them, especially her primary care teacher marlene.
i also cried when kevin and i opened our first gift from violet - her photo in a hand-painted heart-shaped frame, along with a ceramic footprint. they had photos up of the gift-making.
with kevin's mom in town, we were flipping through our wedding "album" (aka stack of loose photos), and kevin's mom complimented one where i'm looking misty. "i was crying," i confirmed. "you do that a lot, don't you?" his mom laughed. i've never thought of myself as a big crier, but apparently i am! look at all of these references to my waterworks lately! am i one of those sentimentals now? (those people who actually put photos in albums?)
i was reading an article recently about what parents do with the proliferation of artwork and "artwork" they get from their kids. the softies save everything despite the fire hazard, the middle roaders covertly throw away all but the special items, and the tough lovers tell their kids that half-assed work doesn't belong on the fridge. i wonder where kevin and i - both haters of clutter - will fall. i do imagine that after we're dead, violet will dig this little ceramic footprint out of a box. hopefully she won't be annoyed with us for it.
I love it! What a great gift!
ReplyDeleteI hoarded everything that Simon "made" or "drew" for a long time, but I think what happens is that they start creating art all over the place all the time and after a while, you naturally start being a little more selective. But the baby stuff is the cutest! (I have a ceramic cast that my preschool teachers made of my hands for my parents and it's pretty amazing to have it to show Simon.)
And I'm so glad that you guys are feeling better.
um, you know what's amazing? i have a 20 year old picture of you wearing a batgirl shirt very similar to violet's. and it's in an album. i'm a sentimental fool i guess.
ReplyDeletethank god you're sentimental, or i'd probably be a grinch with no photos of our adolescence, since over half of what i do have are courtesy of lisa! luckily my sister is a champion scrapbooker too. maybe i've always been sentimental, just a lazy mooch.
ReplyDeletet, now i'm excited to dig through my mother's box of my old "art" so that i can figure out what violet might like to see. or what i'm too ashamed to show her more likely.