Photo Hunt #7 - Clouds

For this week's theme I was a little ahead of myself, however, I forgot to post it on Saturday so, I'm behind again. Go figure. But it's here it is. It was pretty rainy in Paris when we were there in March, see Pointed post for more details. Here's a Cloudy sky at the Louvre.

Photo Hunt #6 - Hanging

My baby came home last week on Wednesday night. I was very happy to have him home, and he was happy to come home. He had a great vacation. On Friday he went back to school and the teacher had him stand up in front of the class and tell everyone what he did during his vacation. He's been talking my ear off ever since. If he talked a lot before he went to spend time with his cousin, he talks even more now!!

For this week's theme I have a couple of pics of Ricky when he was on vacation. The one on top has his cousin Gabby making sure he doesn't fall and the one below shows him hanging from a pole.

Photo Hunt #5 - What is that?

This one is What is that...look???

I'd like to know too, but it's very funny!! Enjoy.

similarities

Today is Wednesday, July 16th, night number 2 without my first baby. Ricky is vacationing with my sister, and my parents in Massachusetts, without his parents. He's not missing us. I talked with him for about 15 seconds this morning, as long as we could keep him on the phone. Seems like he's having fun. Mommy...not so much. I have a constant yucky feeling in the pit of my tummy. The kind you get when you're young with a boyfriend who hasn't called you in a few days or one who's broken up with you...
So I've decided to take this opportunity to write about how much alike my boys look. See pictures below: Adrien and Ricky are eating blueberries on the couch, their favorite thing to do. Adrien is laughing because his brother is laughing and everything that Ricky does is good for Adrien. Except for the age difference you can tell how alike they look, and it's not because of the red shirts.
Here's another.
Ok, so they're in their underwear, they're little, it's still ok. Again, there's not much explaining the similarities, just look at their faces.

Let me tell you though for similarities, looks are the biggest. Their personalities? Not so much.

Photo Hunt #4 - Support

This one I thought would be challenging to find a picture of the kids that I thought fit the support theme. I ended up finding a few some were a bit of a stretch, others a bit more obvious. I decided to go with this one. It's Adrien's first time enjoying the pool and daddy is supporting him in his endeavor, literally. Enjoy.

Separation anxiety

Hi, I guess this is my first real post on this.

They say children go through separation anxiety at about 9 or 10 months. Mommies have trouble the first time they leave their kids with a babysitter or their first day of childcare or the first day of school... My 4 year old did the 9 or 10 month thing.

I didn't cry the first day of childcare, no problem with the first day of school. I had trouble with the first overnight, with all the overnights. This is me to my husband "Do you think he's ok? Should we call to find out how he's doing? What if he won't go to sleep?" I have trouble with nights out, I leave them all day, do it at night too??? Just seems like such punishment even though he cries leaving the person's house when I pick him up.

Now, this weekend I'm taking my first baby, my 4 year old, all the way accross the country and leaving him there for a whole week (I'm tearing up just typing this)...And even though he'll be with his cousin, who he refers to as his "sister" and his Tia who was his childcare for almost a year, and I know he'll have so much fun and not think of me until time to go to sleep...seeing what I wrote above can you see how hard this is for me??? It's torture and I don't even know why I'm doing it...actually writing this, if I hadn't already bought the tickets that I can't return, I think I'd change my mind...

If it's so hard for me, why am I doing it, you say? A couple of reasons, first because it is so hard for me. I need to get over this separation enxiety thing, and if I practice on the kid I know will not have a hard time with it because he is attached to his tia and his cousin, then it won't be so hard to leave them both, when we decide to take a vacation without the kids, which is what my husband has dreamed of doing since Ricky was born. As for the second reason, well that's the same reason reworded because I know he'll love it and he needs a little independence, he's kind of a momma's boy.

Stay tuned for how I'm doing while he's gone.

Photo Hunt#3 - Pointed

Ok, I've spent all week thinking about this photo hunt theme and I couldn't think of any pictures of the kids that made me think of pointed and instead of doing something metaphoric, I decided to show some pointed stuff. The pictures are from France. In March, I went on a trip, with 5 teens and another leader, from my church youth group, to a place in France called Taize. We spent a day on either end in Paris as well. Taize is an ecumenical community that has people from all over the world who come together for prayer and fellowship. So let me explain the pictures.
The above two pictures are of the most known pointed item in France, the Tour Eiffel.
This one is the new fancy contraptions (Pyramids) in front of the Louvre. We got to see some of Louvre, by the way, quite an experience, and another story.

These last two are from Taize. The background is the alter of the huge chapel at Taize that seats an average of 5,000 people a week, on the floor, 3 times a day.


It's an amazing place.


So here's my pointed story about France and specially Taize, a place, I believe young adults of all ages, if given the opportunity, should experience.


Faithfully, Paula