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Helen W's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 3/2/02 -------------------- 1/11/02 11/27/01 11/16/01 11/7/01 10/16/01 8/27/01 8/15/01 7/29/01 7/10/01 7/2/01 6/24/01 6/9/01 5/25/01 5/11/01 4/26/01 4/12/01 4/1/01 3/17/01 3/9/01 3/1/01 2/19/01 2/9/01 2/6/01 1/15/01 1/7/01 1/1/01 12/31/00 12/23/00 12/18/00 12/9/00 12/4/00 11/29/00 11/23/00 2/1/00 1/30/00 -------------------- Helen W's Introduction

December 23, 2000

MOVE OVER MAMA, 'CAUSE I WANNA GET TO DAD! Well, it's a good job I'm too tired to be sensitive because Seth is completely in love with his daddy! He is fine with me all day and is still a good boy, but as soon as daddy comes home from work he absolutely refuses to have anything to do with me! He grins and waves his arms and legs until daddy picks him up (not long to wait then) and then it is the funniest thing but he won't look at me, he almost cricks his neck to look anywhere but at me! And to think I had warned DH that any day he should get ready for the mummy only syndrome!

I love to watch the two of them together as they walk around the house, sit at the computer, watch the news, talk about the day (well DH talks and Seth seems to listen to every word), exercise (Seth that is and daddy seems to watch every movement), and eat -- still the love affair with food, which really shouldn't surprise me because every Wood man and boy that I have met loves food, they eat it, cook it (and BOY do they cook?!). And they talk about it. I have never heard a sports conversation between them but they talk about food with such passion it's impossible not to be impressed. They know where to buy the best ingredients for every delicious meal they make, compare restaurants, remembering who serves what and how big the portions are. And here's a revelation, Seth was born not to glorious classical music, or peaceful whale sounds, no, I laboured and pushed my son into the world to the ever so relaxing (not) FOOD CHANNEL!!! The nurses didn't increase the Pitocin, they kicked it up a notch! When my feet were placed in those steel stirrups, the Iron Chef was waging his war, I am surprised that no one shouted BAM! when Seth's head arrived!

So, at meal times, he now sits on the end of our huge dining table in his bouncy chair, watching every mouthful we eat, and dreaming of the moment he can taste his daddy's roast beef, or sweet and sour chicken, he can't wait for vegetables cooked with garlic, and salivates at the smell of spaghetti and daddy's special sauce. Yes, I can see that Seth is definitely a Wood when it comes to food and look forward to the day when he joins in the passionate conversations with daddy, grandpa, uncle Jack and big brother Robby.

HOW MANY BROTHERS CAN A LITTLE BOY HAVE??? Tomorrow, Seth will meet Rob, his big brother who lives in Sacramento with his mom. All in all he has three brothers but Rob in a way seems like at least five boys, he needs entertaining most of the time because look out world if he ever gets bored! It will be interesting to see how Rob is with Seth. His mom has five girls but Rob is the only boy, and he is Howard's only other natural child. So Rob has never had to share his dad and has lived with his mom since June, just before Seth was born. He was SO excited when we told him he had a brother and we hope he enjoys Seth as much as we do, so tomorrow, the two Wood brothers will meet and it will be, for Howard, a moment to take a "heart picture."

I know that whenever I watch Daniel and Seth together, my heart takes a picture and stores it for when Dan is grown and busy with his life. There is something incredibly moving about having such big children at the same time as a tiny baby. It seems just moments ago that Dan was my tiny boy and here he is, on the verge of becoming a man, I can't help but look at Seth and know that with him I must savour every day because these baby moments are fleeting and before I know it we'll be amazed at how quickly he has grown. So thank goodness that unlike a digital camera, the heart can store a myriad of pictures because this life has so many "moments" worthy of remembering.

It's time to go and be festive, to lose myself in all the splendour of this time of year ... and so, until next week, as they say all over the place ... "Have a good one then."