To continue with yesterday’s theme, skyping with Gilliam is just as special as skyping with Grayson.
Gilliam was only 6 months old when I left for Pakistan, so having a chance to interact with him every day is priceless. I’m always greeted with a warm smile and a wave. He’s calling me ‘Da’ now… and tries to give me kisses on the screen. Which are just as awesome as the ‘computer hugs’ Grayson and I exchange. And our patented ‘I love you’ hand squeeze.
Gilliam is just an awesome boy… if you’re following our monthly music videos you’ll see some of my perspective of watching him crawl for the first time and now cruise around tables. I can’t wait to see him and I think skype is doing wonders to curb any unfamiliar feelings he might have about me when I get home for Christmas.
Now… the thing with Gilliam and Skype is that he’s always trying to get closer to me (the computer) and as his arms flail around he hits keys at random. At least once every conversation Gilliam inadvertently opens some feature of Serena’s laptop that she’s never seen before… and then Serena is forced to figure out what it is and how to turn it off. The best is when Gilliam changed the setting on her webcam to show her desktop instead of them. I ended up staring at myself in skype from their perspective. It was really funny.
Also, if you are familiar with skype, there is an instant message feature that runs in tandem with the video chat. Which is AWESOME! Because we can talk about Christmas openly around Grayson, but type what the actual present ideas are. Now, Gilliam also likes this feature. When we video chat, I will get a lot of instant messages that look like, “lsdkhSlkasb3441”. Very cute… well… it gets cuter.
The other day Serena and I were talking about my upcoming R&R… my departure date is getting closer and closer. And we’re both VERY excited. Serena started joking around and saying, “I wish you could come home now. I want to go to dinner with my husband! Now! Now!” Then Gilliam sent me an inadvertent message that read, ‘sasa.’ Serena started to laugh hysterically. “That’s right Gilly, send Dada home now!”
You seem confused… well, I was at first too… but I figured it out. ‘Sasa’ is Kiswahili for ‘Now’. Remember, Serena is fluent in Kiswahili.
Sasa, Now… I’ll be home as soon as I can!
Oh! BTW: Happy First day of Hanukkah everyone!
PS: Pauline… no, I haven’t finished ‘The Chair’… yet. I left off with Costello’s flight being diverted.
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