The Look of Death

When I was 8 months pregnant, Tessho and I attended a "New Parents" class. We learned how to change a diaper, swaddle, etc. We also had to share to the class a quality/qualities in our partner that we wish our child would inherit. Tessho said he wished our son to be organized like me. I said that I wished our son would have Tessho's compassion and patience. Well.....let's just say you can't always have what you wish for. Tesshin's been more expressive lately. He uses more words to identify things, he's more emotional (happy/sad/frustrated) but he also has a distinct look that he gives when you're either bugging the crap out of him or when he's mad at you for something. He'll furrow his brow real hard and give you this look, straight in the eyes - the look of death. He won't back down easily either. The only trick we've learned is he'll quickly change faces when Tessho and I get excited to see "the look" and we frantically try to grab the camera. But what's odd is that I have that same look and I was saving it to use on him whenever he did something bad. You know how parents just have to flash "the look". Well, Tesshin beat me to it. I'll just have to make up a new look in the meantime. A mother's work is never done.