| Subject: Letters to Samson - 13 Surprises |
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Holly
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Date Posted: 13:21:45 02/27/06 Mon
In reply to:
Holly
's message, "Letters to Samson - 1" on 18:59:32 06/04/05 Sat
I knew all the blah blahs about having a child... no sleep, you appreciate your own parents more, you love more than you ever thought possible.
Blah blah.
Blah.
Oh, and the part where no matter how much you learn, your child will surprise you blah blah.
Like all blah blahs, that last one is true. The trite usually is...
This is my thirteenth letter to you, and thirteen is my favorite number (and birthday), so here are thirteen things I never saw coming:
1. Spit-sprayed antibiotics in the face - I learned not to stand directly in front of you. You learned to swallow it and then scream yuck.
2. It is possible to projectile vomit into the sleeve of someone else's coat (mine).
3. The poetry of your idiom - this one catches me so often. When you were learning to talk, you called grapefruits "juice balls." You have bednight snacks. I once heard you mutter that "Daddy's just a shitbox." You name things. You named a kitten "Handfoot." Before you were two, you named the nightly news "Mommy-Daddy shit shit shit." All of this pleases me. Especially since you don't say shit anymore.
4. Your spiritual questions.
5. The oedipal thing is not all psychobabble.
6. You're five and have no concept of race. You describe people as pink, orange, and brown.
7. You still laugh in your sleep.
8. You clown under stress. Which makes limit-setting and time-outs exceptionally difficult for me.
9. Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go! is the best show on TV.
10. It really does go fast. Goes too fast at the same time that everything happens in perfect radiant order.
11. You are marvelously made. Still. Always. So marvelously made, in fact, that now I look closely at everyone and see how they, too, are perfectly put together. Sometimes, it makes me a little sad.
12. You are five, and we have never spent a night apart. And I have no desire to change that just yet.
13. You love to sing.
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