Sun 24 Jan 2010
It’s been a while since I have posted photos, so I thought I’d play catch up today. I do upload them on to our photos sight, but if most of you read blogs like I do, you will never go there.
First, I just had to share this quote from this article in the NY Times by Sandra Tsing Loh about the disappearing Art of Wife (A phrase I love, by the way), “the work I do at home is no longer a gift, but the labor of a mediocre colleague whose performance could be better.” I think this is the best description of our contributions to the house work I have read. I’ve always described us as both doing a half-ass job, so together it almost comes to a whole-ass worth of work.
Anyway, pictures.
First, Clair checking her email in a fabulous new outfit from her Aunt Louise. Matthias stuck an Apple sticker on her kiddie computer to make it into an imaginary Macbook. The screen ooks a lot more like a Linux machine though.
I finally took Clair sledding with our friend Micha and her family. I couldn’t tell if she had a very good time. She was crying most of the time, but some of the crying was because she was scared, and some of the crying was because she didn’t want to stop. Between crying she did say ‘weee’ as we went down the hill.
Clair doing ‘upside-down baby’ (one of her Yoga poses, as I call them).
Clair discovered Sesame Street, and mainly Elmo, this week. I showed her some UTube videos of Elmo, and she was mesmerized. I got an episode of Sesame Street from itunes, and she has watched it a lot lately; actually, it is how I can have enough time to eat breakfast. She says, ‘La, la’ when she wants to see it because of Elmo’s song (which is all about the la, la, la, la). I signed up on Sesamestreet.org where I can compile a bunch of video clips of my favorite ‘classic’ Sesame Street moments. I loved Sesame Street when I was a kid, so much so that my brother and I would fight because I didn’t want to watch anything else, and we only had one TV. I have to admit that I still like it. The episode I have on the ipod is a newer one and it was interesting to see how they have updated it. Anyway, when Clair’s friends Nathan and Luca came over with their parents last weekend, they watched it together and the parents could actually talk - TV is amazing.
This is a rather long video showing how Matthias gets welcomed home in most evenings. Clair goes crazy running back and forth for a while. He can gauge her excitement on whether or not she wants to hug him. When he first gets home and he asks for a hug, she usually says, “Nein, nein, nein, nein” and keeps running around. After a few minutes, she calms down and then runs into his arms (which I didn’t catch in this video).
