Blake has made some new friends - Anna and Spencer Wing. They don't have any children themselves, so they just think Blake is the greatest! Blake reciprocates those feelings: he was in trouble for disobeying, so I told him to go to his room - he told me to go away and leave him alone. I told him, for the second time, to go to his room, then got up to escort him there. He started walking down the hallway, mumbling, "Go away, I'm driving to Anna and Spencer's!" Apparently he thinks they would make better parents! I had a hard time trying not to laugh. He ended up not going to his room......maybe next time! Last night as I was putting him to bed, he told me that, "Tomorrow I'm going to go on an adventure to Anna and Spencer's house." I told him they would actually be coming over to our house and we would watch football. He was down with that.
Maxwell has learned to communicate - by screaming and crying. It is very frustrating for all of us. We have no idea what he wants. He doesn't get what he wants because we really have no idea what it is he's asking for, so then he cries and screams and starts jumping up and down and waving his arms. He is still a work in progress........mostly he feels like a work in regress. Oh well. He is also learning the disciplinary function of 1,2,3....then you go to your room. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Brent bought me a smartphone for Christmas. I love it and hate it. It has so much stuff - it's like a computer - acts like one too - I get all sorts of errors, and it takes forever to open programs, and yes, I have actually had to reboot it several times already! I think Blake hates it as well. There isn't anything I can't do on it, I now text, im and get my emails immediately all day long, as well as games, gps, microsoft office, and web browsing. It never leaves my side. I wonder if it will one day mysteriously disappear? I have to exercise great self control to ignore my phone during such things as church, family dinner, dates, etc. I have newfound sympathy for Aurelia and the hard time I always gave her for her constant texting! I also think Brent is a little envious of my phone. It is pretty cool. On another note - I went ahead and had a maternity photo shoot done. I never thought I ever would - but I now highly recommend professional photography to everyone (and not just for maternity.) It was a great experience and it is amazing how beauty can be captured through the lens of a camera - not physical beauty, but the essence of it - a picture truly can speak a thousand words - even if only to the person in the picture. I loved it. It is so worth the money! Do it, I say! Here was my favorite photo of the entire shoot.
Maxwell has learned to communicate - by screaming and crying. It is very frustrating for all of us. We have no idea what he wants. He doesn't get what he wants because we really have no idea what it is he's asking for, so then he cries and screams and starts jumping up and down and waving his arms. He is still a work in progress........mostly he feels like a work in regress. Oh well. He is also learning the disciplinary function of 1,2,3....then you go to your room. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Brent bought me a smartphone for Christmas. I love it and hate it. It has so much stuff - it's like a computer - acts like one too - I get all sorts of errors, and it takes forever to open programs, and yes, I have actually had to reboot it several times already! I think Blake hates it as well. There isn't anything I can't do on it, I now text, im and get my emails immediately all day long, as well as games, gps, microsoft office, and web browsing. It never leaves my side. I wonder if it will one day mysteriously disappear? I have to exercise great self control to ignore my phone during such things as church, family dinner, dates, etc. I have newfound sympathy for Aurelia and the hard time I always gave her for her constant texting! I also think Brent is a little envious of my phone. It is pretty cool. On another note - I went ahead and had a maternity photo shoot done. I never thought I ever would - but I now highly recommend professional photography to everyone (and not just for maternity.) It was a great experience and it is amazing how beauty can be captured through the lens of a camera - not physical beauty, but the essence of it - a picture truly can speak a thousand words - even if only to the person in the picture. I loved it. It is so worth the money! Do it, I say! Here was my favorite photo of the entire shoot.
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I totally agree about the photo shoot thing. We had our pictures taken right around my 28th b-day last year. I almost canceled because we had so much going on and I was afraid it would seem self-centered, but I'm so glad we did. I really wanted to chronicle this time of our lives.
Anna
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