Joie de Vivre
One more post about Zachary, and then I’ll shut the hell up about him. For a while, at least. Maybe.
In the past few weeks, he has turned into this little bundle of energy with a zest for life.
Like, really, his picture should be next to it in the dictionary. Like this:
The kid finds joy in EVERYTHING. He’s like some sort of freaky grown-up who had a near death experience and has decided to totally change his outlook on life. To live every minute to the fullest. To find enjoyment in the tiniest of situations. To be super annoying to the people around them.
Take for instance, getting his diaper changed. He sits down halfway across the room and laughs. Then he scoots across the floor to me and giggles the entire way.
Or, on his way to the swings today, his heel got caught on the door frame and he took a nice sized chunk of skin off. But that didn’t slow him down for long. He realized that he’d be missing out on precious swinging time, so I had to go inside and get antiseptic and band-aids and clean up the blood WHILE he was swinging.
He laughs ALL DAY LONG. And even when he’s being a complete and total pain in the ass, which is fairly often, I can’t help but laugh at him, because he’s enjoying himself so damn much. How do you get mad at that?
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It kind of freaks me out, because I often find myself wondering what he knows that I don’t.
But, he does make me smile a lot. Even when I want to strangle him. So that’s something.
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Headless Mom on 05 Apr 2009 at 8:46 pm #
12-18 months was my favorite age. Snuggly, happy, compliant. *sigh* I miss those days.
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Joe on 06 Apr 2009 at 2:59 am #
Ugh… Do I seriously have to start watching that stuff? Dora, Bob the Builder, and all the other shows that I’m ignorant of… can’t he watch Grey’s Anatomy with me? or Late Night with Jimmy Fallon?
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Andrea's Sweet Life on 06 Apr 2009 at 6:15 am #
My little one is very similar, with the smiling and laughter. It’s awesome! Especially since my eldest is in the whine-whine-whine-whine stage, and without the laughing, my head would probably explode!
He is TOO cute.
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Vixen on 06 Apr 2009 at 1:57 pm #
That joie de vivre is exactly what keeps them from being strangled or left in the wild to be raised by elephants. At least is was for me.
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papa-oomau-al on 06 Apr 2009 at 4:36 pm #
“He laughs ALL DAY LONG. And even when he’s being a complete and total pain in the ass, which is fairly often, I can’t help but laugh at him, because he’s enjoying himself so damn much. How do you get mad at that?”
Dear Meghan,
Change ‘he’ and ‘him’ to ’she’ and her’ and this entry could have been written about YOU, roughly 29 years ago– you’re looking back in the mirror every day!
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Amy in Ohio on 07 Apr 2009 at 4:01 am #
Maybe he’s like a lemon and you could scratch some of that zsst off and sprinkle it on other zest-less people, likeNorth Korea and Karl Rove?
Yeah, the zesting process would maybe hurt a little. Nevermind.
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Amazing Greis on 07 Apr 2009 at 4:59 am #
What an absolute CUTIE! I totally need his zest right about now. It was a late night and really early morning.
Have a SUPER week.
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Maya on 07 Apr 2009 at 12:21 pm #
He is so freaking cute, I want to mush his face (in a healthy way of course!)
My twins are 17 months old, so i can def relate to this.
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