Obsessed

I'm obsessed with many things: cleaning up after yourself, making lists, being on time. But these are old obsessions. My new found obsession is blogs. I love reading what other people post about themselves. Being able to leave a relevant comment is icing on the cake. I check everyone's blog in my bookmarks everyday...sometimes twice a day. One page hasn't been updated in over a year, but I still look to see if they decide to come back to it. It has gotten so bad that I find myself upset when people haven't posted in a while (you know who you are). I knew it was a true obsession when I was checking a friend from grade school's sister's blog and couldn't believe she hadn't written in a few months, and I found myself really disappointed. I barely knew her when I was 12. I guess the first step is admitting you have a problem.

Full Circle

We just started getting our milk delivered to our door from a local dairy. According to friends, it tastes much better than the stuff you buy at the store and is equivalent to organic brands. You will have to ask Elias to verify the taste, since Matt and I don't drink milk. What I find interesting is this shift that people seem to be making to buy more food locally. I think it is a great idea...it helps keep pollution down since food doesn't have to be shipped across the country (or world) and it helps support your community. I imagine that some older people will remember getting milk delivered when they were kids (maybe the only real option to get milk?), but it seemed to have lessened over the years. For a while, I think people liked the idea of being able to get any kind of food they wanted from anywhere in the world. The choices were enormous. Now it seems like people are starting to go back to the old ways and are trying to buy local....coming full circle.

Sharing

Elias has just started sharing toys with us. He likes to offer up a toy to us...but he really does expect to get it right back. It's a step in the right direction. What fun!

The Park

Elias doesn't quite get playing at the park yet. He really wanted to watch the other kids swing, but wasn't interested in the swing himself. He also wasn't sure about the slide, but he did like crawling through the tube. I'm thinking it won't be long before his old nickname, "our little monkey" comes back around.

Tentative Steps

Elias took a few uneasy steps on his own today. Before long he will be running around!

Pure Torture

Elias' hair was getting pretty long, so we decided to take him to get it cut yesterday at a kid haircut place. They have cars for the kids to sit in and people who actually know how to cut hair. It seems like a huge step up from when I cut it at home. How bad could it be?

This seems like it could be fun.

We had to wait a bit, and it was fun to watch the other kids getting cuts. They were all older than Elias and seemed to sit pretty well. When it was finally our turn, we thought the car would be the best choice.

This is interesting.

Once the woman sprayed water on his hair, it was all down hill.

What are you doing?


I don't think so.

Matt ended up holding him and sitting in a regular chair while the woman cut Elias' hair. It was about 15 minutes of pure torture, both for Elias and everyone in the place.

Elias calmed down sometime after we got home. I think I'll have to dust off my scissors for next time.