Saturday, November 3, 2007

Naked Time!

The fall has been even busier than expected -- go figure! I (Matt) am certainly enjoying teaching, but I'm also looking forward to a time when I can reduce my workload to a mere one full time job. Ruth Ann has finally hired for some of the open positions at her organization, so that in theory should help her out. But busy we are nonetheless.

Jonah meanwhile keeps on growing. He's nearing one year (coming up December 14)! And he's certainly not an infant anymore -- it's amazing to look at the difference between now and the early pictures on this blog. But there's one thing about Jonah that's been constant across the months: he loves being naked!

Sure, it's true, who doesn't love being naked. But it's apparently a very special thing for babies. Every time he gets naked, whether for a temporary clothing-change, a short term bath, or a longer-term naked romp in the backyard, his delight and enthusiasm is the same. We, on the other hand, have some mixed feelings. On one hand, there's sharing in Jonah's delight with his natural state. On the other hand...well, it's mostly too disgusting to write about in much detail, but suffice it to say that naked + not potty trained has led to some very unsavory situations. Were that we were our youthful hippy selves from days of yore, unconcerned with niceties like sanitation. But since we are who we are now, we do our best to strike a balance between our needs for basic sanitation with Jonah's need for naked time... and we hope that we all come out ok through the occassional (and, ideally, well timed) extended bits of naked time in the backyard!