Proud Aunt
Those of you who know me personally know that I’m not that crazy about kids. It’s not so much that I dislike them as I just don’t know what to do with them. They are foreign, alien things. They make me uncomfortable. And people expect (because I’m a woman?) that I’ll have some maternal instinct, or at least have something to say to the little crumbsnatcher they’ve handed me (because I’m supposed to like to hold kids?).
I still feel uncomfortable around 99.99% of kids, but that 0.01%? He’s pretty stinkin’ cute. And now he walks! I don’t know anything about toddlers, but he looks like he’s pretty steady for just having picked this skill up a day or so ago. My theory is that he’s been walking—secretly, sneakily—for a little bit longer than 48 hours. He’s kind of a stinker like that.
And even if you feel the way I do about kids and have no intention of watching the video, you should read the post anyway: his mamma compares her son’s first steps to her first time smoking pot.
Congrats, Emmit! I can’t wait to see you toddle in person.
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current book: Just started Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus. Between this and The Division Street Princess, I’m going to be able to pepper my conversation with Yiddish expressions!
current music: I can’t get Lady Sovereign’s “Love Me or Hate Me” out of my head. But I just purchased a used copy of Los Super 7’s Heard It On the X, and it looks amazing.
current socks: Polka-dots. Of course.
Posted 1 February 2007
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what’s funny is how proud he is of the walking. he kind of puffs up his chest & the smiling must hurt his cheeks after awhile.it makes me laugh & laugh because it wasn’t like he was ashamed of the not walking, but he knos that he’s on to something.
& he totally cannot wait to walk for his aunt laura.