Darrel posted this picture of Eric already on his blog but I thought I'd post it here as well as I didn't want to leave him out. I haven't taken enough pictures of little Bubba lately. Bubba is for "Baby Brother" and Jack is quite adept at saying it, and thinks it's hilarious. I've taken to calling our daily family life, (at least in my head), the "Bubba and Smoochie Show" as smoochie is our pet name for Jack. For some reason it kind of cracks me up. My previous pet name for Eric has been lambchop but it never has had the popularity or common usage that "smoochie" had for Jack.
So, back to the pic, just shows what we are up to...packing packing packing. Check out Darrel's blog for more information about the significance of the photo. We start moving on Thursday night, hooray! (It snowed here today, go figure.)
In other news, Eric laughed for the first time yesterday. I was making cutesy faces at him and tickling his rib cage. He gave me the sweetest little laugh/grunt, very cute. I am calling it a true laugh because it was repeated upon further poking, and he did it again today.
I am reading "All That Matters" by Wayson Choy right now. It is funny how a book can sit on your nightstand for a couple of weeks, and you aren't that excited to start it, but once you do you cannot seem to put it down. The book is about the Chen family's experience as Chinese immigrants in Gold Mountain (Vancouver) in the early 1900's. It is written from the point of view of First Son, Kiam-Kim. This choice of perspective is very interesting and quite central to the feel of the book. When Kiam-Kim comes to Canada as a three year old child, you only know what he is told and the simple things he understands. As the reader, you get more information / awareness as Kiam-Kim becomes more aware, figures out life and "tells you" what he knows. I have been fascinated with getting a glimpse inside another culture, the descriptions in the book are very rich, delicious in a way actually.
3 comments:
That books sounds right up my alley of intrest. Please post your overall impression when you are done. Seeing pics of Eric makes my pregnant body melt. He is so cute! Up until June, Babies didn't have such a strong effect on me. That was my signal I needed baby #2. Do you remember that feeling- looking at babies WHILE being pregnant. A few months ago, I saw a very pregnant lady (I thought she was going to give birth right there), she was walking slowly in a meditive state, she slowly opened her eyes and saw Tomoya and the gentle, thoughtful, dreamy smile was one that could only appear on a pregnant ladies face.
The kids look great and how fun to finally get into the new house. I love your new page, I think it looks fabulous.
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Sounds like a good book Kristen.I'll have to check it out; I'll let you know when I've finished it. I'm always on the look out for a good book.
You're blog site looks good and I love your scrapbooking pages.
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