I was talking to some people about earlier about someone with a lazy eye. Which made me think of Zach, because if we hadn’t been proactive in his care, he would have one. And, I guess technically he DOES have one since whenever we take his glasses off his right eye shoots towards his nose at alarming speed.
So I went back into my photos to look for a picture of him from when we first discovered his vision problems.
And then I spent the next 30 minutes looking through all sorts of photos.
Isn’t that how it always goes?
That’s when I came across some videos of Dylan.
Remember him? He’s my older kid. The one I haven’t talked about much lately because he doesn’t have vision or speech issues. And issues are easy to talk about. They’re interesting. You can’t be bored of them or not care, because then you’d be an asshole.
And I know you don’t want to be an asshole. Especially at Christmas.
But talking about Dylan’s sudden and intense love for all things Wii isn’t as interesting.
And the whining, OH MY GOD the whining. He has mastered it.
He’s also suddenly obsessed with writing and drawing. And he loves to take baths and showers. He could spend HOURS in there, just relaxing in the water. I’m beginning to think he’s part fish.
He starts a majority of his sentences with “dude”.
You can see his brain working when he’s trying to come up with a plan. It’s funny. And frightening.
He loves to sing. But only when he doesn’t know anyone is listening. Or if it’s just me and dad and Zach around.
He’s shy.
He’s also starting to bust out of his shyness. Last week our neighbor came over to talk to DJ. As they stood in the driveway, Dylan ran outside and said “HEY! Come inside, I want to show you something!” and then spent 10 minutes explaining the intricacies of Wii Ski to the poor guy.
I spent those 1o minutes trying to slyly hide my string bikini underwear in the laundry pile that I had just thrown on the chair.
Anyway, my point in all of this is that he’s a pretty awesome kid.
Even if I don’t talk about him as often as I should.
This is one of the videos I came across today, from June 2008. He was just over 3 years old.
Notice* the popsicle on his mouth. I probably used it as a bribe. It worked.
*Ignore the dying flowers in the vase behind him. I write for Aiming Low. What do you expect?
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Dude, he is just the cutest kid. And, dude, I don’t write about my oldest as much as I should, either.
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I am equally in love with the cuteness of both of your sons. Poor Mr. Gee will have to be slapped again for only giving me girl children. I kid, I love my girls, but damn little boys are cute!
This video is why I LOVE my job as a preschool teacher! Small children are the most precious and amazing creations ever.
.-= kathygee1´s last blog ..Merry Christmas! =-.
dear god, that kid is CUTE.
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ugh the cuteness! both of your boys are adorable. For some reason, the older kids get, the less interesting, until of course they are teenagers and then have problems that we can EXPOSE
LMNOP is clearly the BEST part of the alphabet. Are these videos on Flickr because I really want to go stalk them.
.-= jen´s last blog ..Cartoons are the Devil! =-.