shiso mama

Friends, thank you so much for the heartfelt comments and emails you wrote about your births. Really, you’re the best for being so candid and non-judgmental. You’ve given me a lot to think about, and I definitely have a lot of reading and thinking to do in the upcoming weeks.

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We bought a video monitor ages ago when Otis was throwing himself out of his crib, and we were trying to keep an eye on him to make sure he was safe. We stopped using it quite some time ago, and in fact lent it to my brother to use, and only recently got it back, just in time to start catching Otis sneaking out of his bed during nap times. One day, not too long after Chinese New Year, Otis had a “hong bao” from a neighbor tucked in safely under his pillow and soon after I left, he took it out of its hiding place to play with and count his money. I came in seconds later to take it away and to remind him that it was nap time. The video monitor has come in handy often during our latest nap troubles. All of this makes me wonder, though: between the video monitor and the little extra rearview mirror in the car that allows me to see what he’s up to in the back seat without turning my head, does he ever just sit there and wonder how in the world it could be that I’m omniscient?