But the moment to tell the story in detail seems to have passed. I told it a couple of times last night at the Physics and Astronomy Department picnic. I got a few pictures when we were about to leave, after Liam had already gotten irritated about the fact that we had to leave.
Allen decided the best way he could help was to remove all persons and posessions other than the protesting five-year-old.
This is, in fact, a rare moment in our family. I try to avoid power struggles. But considering an event yesterday invoving a street, a moving car and a running Liam I felt this was the time to make a point. I've been getting pretty lax lately about my "you have to hold my hand in parking lots" policy and it's possible that my confidence in Liam's good judgement and cautious nature were not justified.
Sometimes when I should be focusing on parenting I take pictures instead.
Sometimes I get away with it because the moment becomes humorous. Although to say that the tension/whining/general lack of cooperation ended there would be a BIG mistake. Sometimes the point is just to take the small graces when you can get them.
Devin did make his Physics and Astronomy Department debut as the presence of the stroller suggests. He slept through quite a bit of it which wasn't all bad because it got pretty windy. He's not always in his stroller though! Here is a picture of him holding up his head. Liam took the picture.
And yes, now you know the secret of how I've gotten through so many Candy Crush Saga levels - I do it when I'm breastfeeding.
In spite of this particular grimace Devin is actually a pretty smiley baby. We talked about him developing a social smile for a while before he actually did and then after it was pretty reliable when he smiled at Liam he would say, "I think he developed a social smile." The first time you might think he meant in general, but after a while I definitely got the idea he was referring to the specific event just witnessed. These days Liam believes that the best way to make Devin smile is to stick out his tongue. Liam's pretty good at getting Devin to smile and will often help me out by playing with Devin while he's on his play mat or in his rocking chair.
Speaking of risky behavior, Liam managed to take a fall off a swing today, hurting his arm and skinning up his nose in the process. I gave him some Children's Tylenol. He said that food coloring would just have made it taste worse. He wanted to know why they put food coloring and "official" flavoring in medicine. A while ago now he informed me that there are actually no tomatoes in ketchup - just food coloring and "official" flavors. I really should teach him the word "artificial" but this version cracks me up.
I fell that this is very scattered. I'm still not over the mastitis and have been trying to rest today. I don't feel like it's been going very well - the resting. I tried several times to sleep but Devin kept waking up so I finally gave up and started collecting dairy free recipes for Thanksgiving dishes. Devin's poop seems to have cleared up (no more blood for a day or so) so now I am back to not really knowing if dairy is the problem. Because, as it turns out, my supply went way down about the time I quit again so it still could be the fore milk irritation thing. But I think that I will stay off the dairy for at least a few more weeks. I realize though, thinking about it, that Thanksgiving is more than a few weeks away. Some of the recipes I suspect I'll use in the mean time. Or at least the ideas.
Yes, very scattered. Now I need to try to figure out supper.
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