And the perfect storm continues! No rest for the wicked? Or no rest for those to continue education and have children? The pace has not slowed down...if anything, it's sped up as we now find ourselves behind in everything after all that travel. For me, behind on my dissertation. For Gid, behind on his self-imposed deadline to get the house finished up before Joaquin's 2nd birthday.
A friend and I were talking over email about how interesting it is to hear yourself reflected through your just-talking child...meaning they parrot what you say and things you say alot become well repeated. So this is apparently what I say alot: "Oh no! What happened?" and "So cool!" So everything is so cool and any mistakes now result in a (very concerned voice) "Oh no! What happened!"
He loves, loves, loves Curious George. The trip to PI was a little hard for him and he watched Curious George at least twice a day for the entire trip. My guess is that I've seen that movie at least 100 times now.
Instead of a basket this Easter, we signed him up for the PBS Kids Club, which got him his Curious George stuffed animal. It's the first stuffed animal I've seen him play with since Bailey attacked this little tiger he liked at 3 mos.
This past month marked what I hope is our last airplane trip before the 'you need to pay' 2 year mark in June. Joaquin has traveled to the Philippines twice, within the Philippines twice, 3 times to Florida, and 1 time to Hawaii in his short 22 months. Quite the frequent flier!
And he continues to amaze me. I think I've got an extraordinary little person on my hands. This Easter we went for a hike that was supposed to be an hour long. That hour long hike turned into 6 hours and probably 8-9 miles. Joaquin walked 5-6 of it himself and never really complained. We had very little food and he was hungry and tired. When he was tired he would say "Keep going" and when he was hungry he would say "Donuts in the car", but we never had a meltdown and he was such the trooper. I would say I am proud of him, but that doesn't really sum it up...I am more amazed by him. How many little kids would troop on like that without any food or sleep? Amazing, amazing, amazing...
