i've got to tell you, though nearly every single thing boden does is fascinating (i could do without the poopy diapers), some are just more precious to me than others. what makes them rank higher and pull at my heart strings? i have absolutely no idea why. but, i think it was thursday night, he put another thing on my top ten list. we were sitting at the kitchen table eating supper, and he started whispering! i'm not totally sure how it started and wonder if eric and i whisper that much around him (it was a daycare day, so maybe he picked it up there? one of the many things he is bound to pick up from other kids..... at least this one is cute :) ). we'd whisper back to him and he would just start going to town whispering in his own little language of his. i've tried it out in the last few days and it has stuck. i have no idea why, but i feel like hearing him whisper is one of the most precious things he has done so far. maybe because it was so unexpected. i didn't know they started to whisper yet at this age. we did know that he could sure talk loud :).
speaking of daycare... friday was picture day, and because that is a day i don't work, we made a special trip in just to pose :). boden was all happy to be there and even lunged a couple times at one of the daycare girls before deciding he'd rather just get down on the floor. that was a very weird feeling for me as boden hasn't really wanted to go out of my arms to other people much besides eric.
the pictures were being taken in a very small room and so not many people could be in it at once. boden saw all these stuffed animals, a big white umbrella for lighting, kids talking in the room, and flashes of light. it was about more than he could take, he HAD to go in there :). he kept pulling on me, leaning way in to try and drag me (he would have most certainly walked in himself if i would have let him).
since there was a line, we decided to find some of the other kids. boden all sorts of lit up for this one little girl when she walked past and followed her. she touched his face a couple times and he thought that was great (totally off the subject, but we were in the new menards the other night and a little girl, maybe 2 or 3, came up to boden and wanted to talk. she gave him a big hug and a kiss on the cheek. boden was all starstruck and when the mom told the girl they had to go and started walking away, boden just started following her. i let him go for a while, but finally picked him up and went the other way. who knows how far he would have followed her :) ). the daycare girl said that all the kids sorta have a thing for this little girl for some reason. i guess she has some kind of throaty laugh that they all like.... is it starting already!?!?!?
anyway, we went back for the pictures and since boden still wanted in so much, the picture lady said boden could sit in one of the kiddie chairs by the wall and watch. we have not put him in many little chairs, for sure not recently, so this was a new experience for him and he thought it was something special! he sat there hardly moving with this half smile on his face, looking like - is it ok to like sitting in this little chair so much???
so then his turn came to take his picture. i was anticipating him doing great because he was so interested in getting in there before hand. i don't know if it was because i had to take him out of the little chair, or because all of a sudden all this looked a lot more scary up close, but his started crying up a storm (payback from my mother i'm sure :) ). they had this little velvet settee type chair (isn't that what you call that big yellow lounge chair at grammy's?) for him to sit on and he wanted nothing to do with it. he kept clinging to me as i'm trying to make him calm down and sit there and back away. the picture lady was all kinds of entertaining, throwing him this clown nose, but to no avail. finally, she asks if i wouldn't mind stepping out of the room and letting one of the daycare ladies deal with him. i was a little surprised, but said sure. nearly as soon as i left the room he stopped crying and started throwing the clown nose back at her and reportedly giving her a few smiles!!! now, in all my years of teaching i have known and witnessed that children act differently for their parents than they do others, but never did i imagine that my own sweet little boy, not even 16 months yet, would be better for someone else than me!!!!!!!!!!!
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