Random Thoughts

A few more recent reasons that I love my husband --
Before leaving town for a work conference, he:
1) scooped the cat litter;
2) emptied the diaper pail;
3) Left me a sweet note by the bed; and
4) set the coffee maker to make me a cup the next morning.

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Little T (or as my husband sometimes calls him, "lowercase T") is teething. I know, I know, we all go through it. But it is also one of those things that sometimes make you (well, in this case, me) feel all alone. He has about 4 teeth bursting through at the same time, and his mood swings are swinging away. Overall, though, still a happy boy!

When I heard him chirping away in his crib this morning and went in to greet him, he walked over to the wall and pointed at a star and said "What's that?" Not his normal pointing and guttural sound. Maybe I'm hearing what I want to hear, but I really think he said "What's that?" This makes me so proud and sad all at the same time! Proud that my big boy was able to put two words together to make a question, when he has less than 12 words in his vocabulary to begin with; and sad that my big boy is growing up.

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Current words in T's vocabulary:

Hi
Bye bye
Up
Cracker
Cat
Boo
Whoa (whatever you might think, he is using this appropriately, so I'm counting it!)
Mama
Daddy
What's that?
Ball

And on occasion, he says "Alligator," but it sounds like "abawaiter."

Doesn't seem like much... wonder if I'm forgetting some? I have said on more than one occasion that I wonder if he has more words than I realize, but I'm just not used to hearing them in his little boy voice and therefore don't recognize it when he says them.

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Do you ever feel like the people you care about (or are supposed to) the most are the ones that hurt you the most? No, I'm not talking about my husband. (And yes, he and Little T are the people I care about the MOSTEST!) The person I am talking about, though, has told me that I should do whatever makes me happy, and everyone else be damned. Ironically however, when I talk about possible life changes that I think will make me very happy, this person makes me feel like crap.

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Wow, I was just going to complain about Blogger's lack of spellcheck when I saw the little blue check mark with the telltale "ABC" on it...

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Do you feel like technology has made us dumb? I mean this in the sense of when was the last time you actually hand wrote something and wondered if you were spelling a word correctly before stopping to look it up? I don't know about you, but for me, I type ALL the time and have found that I've come to rely on the computer to tell me when I've spelled something wrong.

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It bothers me when people repeatedly ask me how Little T is doing? Particularly people that I am not close to! He's teething. What more do you want me to say? Please stop acting offended when I have the same response every day, because you're lucky enough that I'm responding politely instead of telling you that you're not my friend and I don't care to go into any more details with you.

On that note - For coworkers that I'm not that close to, please stop asking me when I'll be bringing Little T in to the office for you to see him. I work here. I live an hour and 3 forms of transportation away. I'm not going to make it a point on my day off to bring my child in to the office for you to see. Honestly, that is one of the most ridiculous questions that I keep hearing these days!

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Currently reading: "Cutting for Stone" by Abraham Verghese. Fiction. I'm halfway through it, and so far it's mostly been set in Ethiopia. I love historical fiction, and I'm really enjoying this book!

Should I feel guilty for not reading more nonfiction about Ethiopia, adoption, interracial adoption, attachment?

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That's all I got for now. I feel a little better for finally having blogged again!