Ever had that feeling when you get in the elevator and you realize you didn’t really take notice of the floor where you parked and you wonder how many floors you will have to stop and get off so you can take a look around before you finally find your car?
Happened to me tonight. And this is the most interesting photo I had the time to take. Unless you want to see pictures of an awards ceremony for the Portland Business Journal that I had to attend for work. Didn’t think so.
I asked Thomas to make some funny faces for my photo of the day. Apparently his idea of a funny face is to screw up his face as tight as he can because I have quite a few photos that look just like this.
Listening to Pandora and this song came on. Love it!
Pandora is my lifeline at work. You create a “Station” based on a song or artist you like and then it plays random songs that have characteristics similar to the song you chose. This song played from my station called “Love Song”. Oh and here’s that song too.
I am in such a musical/creative mood. Making it hard to get work done.
Thomas was an early talker. His first word was “bubble” at about 10 or 11 months and he hasn’t stopped talking since. In fact lately he has kicked it up a few notches with most of his statements arriving in the form of a question. For example… “Is that Miguel?” (one of the builders who he has taken a shining to) “Are those my shoes?”, “Are you eating something?”, “Is that a chair?” and on and on it goes.
It’s very cute and I LOVE that Thomas has a good vocabulary – but lately I have been very tired thanks to interrupted sleep and my patience level is not as high as it was a couple of weeks ago. Last night I found myself just willing him to “Shut Up!” It didn’t help that Kei was late home from work and I was the only person there to listen to, and answer, the thousands of questions that came from his mouth in the hour we were alone together. I feel like such a bad mother. Some parents would be thrilled to have a child who can properly express himself through language and I know we are very lucky. I just have so much going on right now that I dream of just a little bit of silence. The opportunity to shut everything out for a while and not have to say for the 50th time “No, you can not watch the wiggles!” (only a time out threat stopped that conversation).
So – not feeling like the best mummy in the world today, although I am pleased with myself for keeping it contained so Thomas didn’t understand the full extent of my frustration.
Coincidentally, I scrapped this page a week or two ago for the You Rock Lift on Lauren’s CT blog. Appropriate, don’t you think?
One more thing before I go… I receeived my digital copy of Digital Scrapbooks Mag today and there he is on page 81! Thomas is in print and I am officially published. Whoo hoo! Can’t wait to get the hard copy.
Nicole Ishida Photography 