How things are going
We miss daddy a lot since he’s started his new job in Cambridge. We’ll be together soon – there are worse things in the world – but things are better when we’re all together. Raimi really gets what’s going on. Today he said he likes it better when daddy’s around “because there’s more people to take care of us.” But we’re doing our best, our incomplete little team.
I’d like to catch up on pictures — we never posted Christmas, Hanukkah, birthdays… there’s a lot I’d like to share. But for now, here’s right now.
On Saturday was the Boneyard Arts Festival, a celebration of art in our community. Raimi’s Kindergarten class was part of a display in the children’s section of the Urbana Free Library. Art class is one of the only parts of school that he really enjoys, so I made sure to take him to see it.
You can see his contribution to this bouquet of flowers, each created by a Kindergartener at Thomas Paine School. His is pink with blue spots and kind of shaped like a pac man popsicle. Or a flower.
His first pose shows some trinkets we bought at a local toy store. Then in the next one, I’d just said, “let me see you smile. You look proud, Raimi!” How special to see his work of art on display in a public place — a favorite place to visit.
The other thing about how things are now is that we’re all a little more impatient, but also a little more snuggly with one other. Both boys ask for extra hugs, especially during transition times. Despite firmly telling me that he does NOT like Kinnell on other occasions, the other night Raimi told me that Kinnell is his new bedtime snuggly.
Sometimes Raimi sleeps in his bunk bed if Kinnell’s being too silly and distracting, but Kinnell pretty much insists on sleeping in my bed every night since Kevin’s been gone. I asked if they plan to sleep with Daddy when he gets back, and the answer was an emphatic YES.
Tonight Kinnell was up WAY too late, twirling up his hair and whispering quietly. I’d told him he had to go in his own bed if he made a lot of noise, and he was so quiet I was surprised to find him awake at almost 10 o’clock.
When I finally came to bed, he had scooted over closer to his brother, and then at last fell asleep.
