There should be a grand-sounding name for the day when a baby boy notices that he is a boy. It’s kind of like his Bar Mitzvah, except there are fewer people there to celebrate because it takes place spontaneously in the bath one morning. Not many people fit in the bathroom, and we aren’t really [...]
Scary doll.
Be sure and click on “Next”… guaranteed to shock and educate.
There’s a thunderstorm right outside. I can’t sleep because of the stupid thing, even though there are no warnings out and I looked up the radar online and it doesn’t look too horrible.
We have this stuffed toy that Nicolaus loves. It’s some kind of vegetable… a stalk of celery or no… asparagus. Definitely asparagus. [...]
Whatever intellecutual leap Nicolaus has made that makes him want to grab things has also made him very indignant about things being taken away. He always cried whenever we took his bottle away to burp him but now it’s this heart-wrenching sob. It sounds as though we have truly and completely hurt his feelings.
And you [...]
Last night I dreamed about an art project. I was making stuff out of paper that normally isn’t made of paper. I made a bed, complete with mattress and box springs. It was just these huge sheets of paper, kind of like newsprint I guess, layered… hundreds of them built up into a thick mattress. [...]