aka R’acquel

Mitch was away on business at the Medieval Fair on the weekend. Australia’s currently placed some kind of lock-down on horses due to an outbreak of horse flu which seems to be rather devasting according to the news reports tonight. This problem sadly affected the festival’s highly popular jousting events which had to be cancelled because of it.

My son loves his dad fiercely. They have a very strong symbiotic bond together which was influenced by how the event of childbirth panned out. I was rendered unconcious from the emergency c-section while hubby took on the role of surrogate mother straight after Aidan’s birth.

I really enjoy the precious 1:1 time with my son while his Dad is out of the picture on business. It gives us space to grow closer together during these times. We get more organised & in-sync with each other. What’s probably impacted our relationship together a great deal is because our son had both parents in his life at home, fulltime for the first two years, where in many families - the husband goes back to work while the mother takes on the primary role as caregiver. I’ve enjoyed that our lives have been able to return to this lifestyle with both parents working from home again.

Anywayz, with Dad away from home on business (with brother-in-law pitching in for support), the deal is that some kind of token from a festival event must return home for Aidan. Usually - it’s a wrist-band, but this round - it was a dazzling light wand. Aidan performed his first “concert” to us last night, and we had another one lined up for tonight and mum was designated as the photographer.

The lights were turned off….

Wait! I need to focus the camera!!!

Lights get turned on… focus achieved - lights get turned off again.

I need the lights back on - i can’t find the button to turn off the flash!

Ok - we’re all set…and now - for the spectacular light show, with Aidan’s Concert No.2.

Who needs photoshop when you can draw pictures with a light wand instead?! *lol* This is one of my favourites captured.

These capture the “spirit” of my son so well. He’s just like how this light moves - constantly on the move like this since birth. He wasn’t easy to hold and refused to breastfeed just like this!

This one makes me laugh. The only way my son would ever feel like this in my arms is if he was “sleeping”. His frenetic constant spinning/twirling “octopus” body has experienced noticeable “smoothing” like this as he’s grown older. It’s nice to have the occasional moments that we can enjoy hugs together now (when before - he could only tolerate “backward” hugs when he finally mastered sitting on my lap without wanting to jump out of it like a fish out of water).

This “smooth” is misleading. The only reason it looks like that is because it was a fraction of a second compared to Aidan’s usual ways.

See - i told you so. You can see him starting to become more of himself again. *lol*

The ultimate highlight of the entire event for me, because this picture has truly captured the symbiotic bond between father & son, and yet that firey creature is the one that came out of my own body. This is very much what motherhood is like for me. These small moments just like this - that can help my body understand that this kid is my child and that he did come from me. Being unconcious during birth caused a great deal of harm and i’m glad that pain continues to grows less for me with time.

This one truly captures what my son was like to hold in my arms in the early days. Mitch is still there in the background and all that red going whoosh everywhere, is Aidan.

Here’s another version of the same kind of thing, but he’s waving hello to you in this one.

Waving hello frantically again - but then lays down into his father’s arms for a rest.

The End

…now, we have to make sure that we write thank-you notes for Aidan’s concert on post-it notes, which must be delivered under his bedroom door, otherwise he might get upset and continue to pester everyone until he gets all of his thank-you notes.

I was lucky because i remembered to do this last night, so Dad & brother-in-law got a big talking to this morning from Aidan to complete the bargain. Off to round up the boys to write some more thank-you notes, so he sees them on his pillow when he wakes up tomorrow morning. *lol*