brood

just about to head home for a long weekend with my family, mostly Levi, as ladyjoanna will be working a lot. i’m looking forward to it. i joked with people at work that taking care of him is more work than showing up here everyday, and that is true. physically, the boy is a bit taxing. he weighs about 27 lbs and requires a lot of picking up and holding. we are actually thinking that we need to be doing that a bit less. perhaps he can be reasoned with? surely he understands back pain? he must have all kinds of pains during his rapid growth spurts. and, his colic… if that wasn’t pain, then what exactly was it then?

if you didn’t notice the new pictures, they are there. i’ve been dabbling with my old slr again, and hopefully will put those results up soon. everything is slow with actual film cameras. there is something interesting about that process. shooting a roll of film and only getting 1 good picture. levi is firmly a part of a generation that may never know of such things. film?

but, really as I sit here, mentally preparing for this extended weekend (”long” sounds pejorative, so let’s do away with it for now) I have a smile and this sort of brewing thoughts of how humorous levi is these days. he expresses himself with more audacity, and a growing vocabulary. but even if he doesn’t have a word for what he wants to say, he’ll fill it it. he’ll confabulate! well, perhaps he knows his words are fabrications, so maybe not in the technical sense, but he talks a good game. he talks turkey, in fact…

gobble gobble!