Baby Sha

You are a busy, busy boy. You can creep crawl anywhere you want to go. Go, go, go. Especially places you aren't really supposed to go. Like under the coffee table or the end tables or to help your Pa when he is fixing. Your going to be handy. I can tell already. You are inquisitive and busy trying to learn everything there is to know about anything you can get your hands on.

You can give kisses. But not on demand. You puck your lips and smack them. There is about a 10 minute delay between the time we give you a kiss and the time you decide to kiss us back.

You can wave. Bye, bye, Ma. You do it all the time. Even when I'm not going anywhere. Especially, when I'm not going anywhere. Because you want to be alone with Pa. It doesn't matter where he is, you need to be by his side. Or against him or slapping him or playing with him or cuddling him. You are a Daddy's boy.

You make us cry. Pa can look at you in the dark, when we are all curled up as a family watching a movie, and cry. We are so lucky. We say it over and over and over again. We are so lucky. Just because you are here. I cry if I watch you sleep. It touches my heart in ways you can't begin to imagine, until you too are a Pa.

You give us silence. Pa and I have many silent dinners. The conversations are always about you and how cute you are, the new things you do, all of our worries and then silence. The silent pause of reflection where no words are necessary. I can read his mind and he can read mine. And we chew and swallow and sit and read each other's thoughts and think about how fortunate we are to have you to complete us.

You snuggle. Only when you are exhausted from a long day of busyness. Then you snuggle up tight right where you belong.

We have so many dreams for you. Ahhhhh.

You are getting another top tooth. Woo hoo! And you love Auntie's kitty, Jinx.

Good night, Prince.

I wish I wrote this....

I see trees of green.....red roses too
I see em bloom.....for me and for you,
And I think to myself....what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue....clouds of white
Bright blessed days....dark sacred nights
And I think to myself.....what a wonderful world.

The colors of a rainbow....so pretty....in the sky
Are also on the faces....of people....going by
I see friends shaking hands....sayin....how do you do
They're really sayin......I love you.

I hear babies cryin....I watch them grow
They'll learn much more....than I'll never know
And I think to myself....what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself .......what a wonderful world.

Happy Birthday, Ma!

It's my BIRTHDAY!

Anybody care to leave a comment? Is this me?!?

Pa found this website.

LEO.

Generous and warmhearted
Creative and enthusiastic
Broad-minded and expansive
Faithful and loving

On the dark side....

Pompous and patronizing
Bossy and interfering
Dogmatic and intolerant

LIKES
Speculative ventures
Lavish Living
Pageantry and Grandeur
Children
Drama

DISLIKES
Doing things safely
Ordinary,Day to day living
Small minded people
Penny pinching
Mean spiritedness

The Leo type is the most dominant, spontaneously creative and extrovert of all the zodiacal characters. In grandeur of manner, splendor of bearing and magnanimity of personality, they are the monarch's among humans as the lion is king of beasts. They are ambitious, courageous, dominant, strong willed, positive, independent, self-confident there is no such a word as doubt in their vocabularies, and they are self-controlled. Born leaders, either in support of, or in revolt against, the status quo. They are at their most effective when in a position of command, their personal magnetism and innate courtesy of mind bringing out the best of loyalty from subordinates. They are uncomplicated, knowing exactly what they want and using all their energies, creativeness and resolution to get it, as well as being certain that they will get whatever they are after. Their followers know where they are with Leonians. Leonians think and act bigger than others would normally dare; the ambitiousness of their schemes and idealism sometimes daunt their followers, their practical hardheadedness and ability to go straight to the heart of any problem reassures those who depend on them. If Leonians meet with setbacks they thrive on the adversity.

On the whole they are powers for good, for they are strongly idealistic, humane, and beneficent. They have powerful intelligence and are of a broad philosophical, sometimes religious, turn of mind. Those who are devout may become very obstinate in upholding traditional beliefs and will cling tenaciously, but with complete sincerity, to practices and doctrines which liberal thinkers regard as absurdly out-of-date. These will be found as the 'lions' of industries, and in the forefront of the cutting edge of technologies.

Their faults can be as large in scale as their virtues, and an excessively negative Leonian can be one of the most unpleasant human beings imaginable, displaying extreme arrogance, autocratic pride, haughtiness, and excessive hastiness of temper. If jealously suspicious of rivals, they will not hesitate to use cunning, lies and trickery to discredit them. Self-centeredness, greed for flattery, boastfulness, and bombast, pomposity, snobbish superiority, and overbearing, and intolerant disdain of underlings; to whom they will nevertheless delegate the carrying out of minor details in their grandiose schemes, and from whom they are not above borrowing immoderately if an occasion necessitates it. Any of these can be characteristic of Leo.

Add to them a passion for luxury, a lust for power, unlimited sexual lust, and emotional indulgence, and a character emerges that no one would want to know either in public life or private. But their pride may go before a fall, as uncontrolled impetuosity is likely to bring them low. Fortunately it is rare that a Leo is so undisciplined as to give way thoroughly to this list of vices, and their tendencies to them are usually balanced by an innate wisdom. Those who are afflicted with them also have the intelligence it takes to consciously and actively overcome them.

In professional life they do well at any vocation at which there is room at the top. As politicians they are content with nothing less than a powerful position in government. In business they may be the chairman of their company's board, or at least directors or managers. They are excellent organizers and overseers, often laying the groundwork for new projects. If from the artisan ranks of society they will aspire to become the boss, partly because they are ambitious by nature, partly because they dislike manual labor, preferring to take charge of others doing it. If artistic, Leos can become stars of stage or screen (their bent is serious rather than light drama), maestros as musicians where they will gravitate toward the grand instruments or activities, such as the organ or conducting of orchestras and as painters; anything grand in conception and scale appeals to them. Leo women make exceptionally good welfare workers.

In his or her relations with others the Leo type is open, sincere, genuine and trusting. Outgoing, spontaneously warm hearted and plain spoken, though never lacking in kindliness, Leos are more disillusioned than the average if let down by those they trust. They are not good judges of character and are inclined to favoritism and an exaggerated faith in their followers which too often ends in disappointment. They have a strong sex drive and are so attracted to the opposite sex that they find it hard to be constant; they can be so intensely sexual as to become dissolute. They may have numerous love affairs for their love of pleasure and beauty is liable to drive them from one attractive partner to another. They are very much inclined to deceive. Their marriages may fail for the same reason, yet they are sincere and generous to their lovers while love lasts, and will remain attached to their homes so long as it is run for their benefit. They demand service but are incapable of giving it.

At least it explains why I asked Pa if it was okay if I trekked through Amishville today looking for an expert seamstress to make children's backpacks so I could start my own business...

Yes, that was on a whim.

He said no. He did take me to Amishville though...and let me buy cheese curds.