samuraishot
Enlightened
So my wife is a matron-of-honor for her friend's wedding tomorrow and she and the bridesmaids decided to stay overnight at the hotel where the ceremony is. This meant that she would leave me and our 1 1/2 year old son alone for the first time since he was born.
She left in the afternoon and I had to take him everywhere I went for the rest of the day and surprisingly he was pretty well behaved.
We got home quite late and I could tell he was getting sleepy so it was now for the hard part - putting him to bed. Usually we have a tough time getting him to sleep since he tries to fight his sleepiness and tries to stay up.
So now he's in his pajamas and I shut off the lights and click on my EDC to it's lowest setting, which is about .2 lumens and barely enough light to see anything, but has just enough light to cast a soft glow to wherever it's pointing. Now, like most of CPFers here whose children loves their flashaholic dad's (and mom's) lights, my son loves messing with my lights.
So I hand him my light and next comes the most awesome 10 minutes. He takes my light and slowly scans the entire bedroom with it. He would point it to his hand and 'examine' his hand. He pointed it to my face and just stared at me. He was observing everything with the light. It's hard to explain, but for some odd reason it was so surreal seeing my son, as young as he is, so extremely observant and calm just looking at things with the flashlight.
After about 10 minutes he then extended his arm and pointed the light to the bed and slowly (about 20-30 seconds) started to bring the bezel down until it was face down on the bed and the room was pitch black. He had fallen asleep with my flashlight in his hand.
This may sound corny, but I will never forget that moment. Just wanted to share this with everyone.
She left in the afternoon and I had to take him everywhere I went for the rest of the day and surprisingly he was pretty well behaved.
We got home quite late and I could tell he was getting sleepy so it was now for the hard part - putting him to bed. Usually we have a tough time getting him to sleep since he tries to fight his sleepiness and tries to stay up.
So now he's in his pajamas and I shut off the lights and click on my EDC to it's lowest setting, which is about .2 lumens and barely enough light to see anything, but has just enough light to cast a soft glow to wherever it's pointing. Now, like most of CPFers here whose children loves their flashaholic dad's (and mom's) lights, my son loves messing with my lights.
So I hand him my light and next comes the most awesome 10 minutes. He takes my light and slowly scans the entire bedroom with it. He would point it to his hand and 'examine' his hand. He pointed it to my face and just stared at me. He was observing everything with the light. It's hard to explain, but for some odd reason it was so surreal seeing my son, as young as he is, so extremely observant and calm just looking at things with the flashlight.
After about 10 minutes he then extended his arm and pointed the light to the bed and slowly (about 20-30 seconds) started to bring the bezel down until it was face down on the bed and the room was pitch black. He had fallen asleep with my flashlight in his hand.
This may sound corny, but I will never forget that moment. Just wanted to share this with everyone.