Apr 4, 2008

Da Da

Dada as in dad, not as in Dadaism, the art, or rather the anti-art movement. Although hearing it uttered so sweetly from my boys reminds me of an essay I wrote a million moons ago in modern art history class back in my early college days: One day men will suddenly look up with startled eyes from their couches, from behind their newspapers, and whisper "da da". Or something funny like that, I don't remember.

Our main man here--Dada--is a smarty, cooks, builds, fixes, and cracks me up. He's always a hair's breadth away from me at work and I follow him around like a puppy dog at home. I tell people, Jerry and I like to do our own thing--together. The energy, the fire, the beard--I'll take it all. He sprints around like a man on a mission and talks way too loud, often from a soap box. I can really dish out the scary wife routine, but this little man can take it. He changes diapers, reads stories, gets up in the middle of the night, and does everything a mother would do for our boys. That's one interesting aspect of adoption, incidentally: because of the absence of a pregnancy, birth, and usually breast-feeding on the part of the adoptive mother, both mom and dad are potentially equals in terms of the parent-child bond from day 1. Jerry, who shall remain faceless & silent for most of this blog, we love you.

Here comes dada! Please, excuse my irritating shrill throughout this video (and all the cliches in above paragraph!).

9 comments:

Cindy said...

One True Media is apparently out to lunch today--please tune in later for the video!

Shawnstribe said...

i love your blog, your boys and i think you guys are amazing
love and good thoughts
xxx
s

Julie said...

I love that even the cats are excited to see Jerry.

I don't think your voice is "shrill-y" at all. In fact we now say,"Wakey Wakey" in our house, in your voice, (while humming Radiohead of course).

Courtney Rose said...

That video is SO sweet! Jerry must absolutely adore his name- beautiful music.

I, too, enjoyed the wanderings of the cat. Your husband is so popular!

los cazadores said...

OMG, I LOVE that video clip - they may grow up to be like a barber shop quartet, only with three, so not a quartet...and without a barber shop. :)

Cindy

Angela :-) said...

I noticed when you first mentioned dada, everyone got quiet. ;-)

Angela :-)

Cindy said...

Actually, Angela, Sira was the first to see dada walking way off on the distance towards home when he announced it. Figures, since this guy cannot get enough of almighty dada!

Lynnmom2 said...

Cindy - just found your blog a few months back. Your boys are so precious and beautiful.

I am anxiously waiting until May when I travel to Ethiopia to pick up my 7 month old son. Your posts make me smile! Lynn

LISA said...

OMG Cindy!!! That was a,from the belly laugh!!! They're getting even more hair!!