I walked in the kitchen and saw him crouching down, holding a piece of candy up to the side of the fish tank.
"Um, what the hell are you doing?"
"Check it out, if you hold the peppermint bark this way it makes him mad. But if you turn it this way or this way, he totally [...]
Four scattered things:
1. He seems to be making a deliberate effort to make himself sound as natural and grown up as possible. So instead of Yes he says "Sure" (often with a shrug) and instead of No he says "Nnnnope." But sometimes the word "sure" doesn’t really fit, especially the way he says is [...]
I just walked in the kitchen because I heard the distinct sound of the top coming off of the fish tank. Again. This time, Nicolaus was standing on a chair and holding the following objects:
* A tiny plastic collander that goes to his play kitchen
* A toy wooden screwdriver
* [...]
Ha! He’s napping! Now it is I who has the upper hand. Until he wakes up, probably in another 15 minutes.
This Christmas was pretty cool from the whole parenting/loving family/weather standpoint. No one brought up politics in an obnoxious way, and there were no major meltdowns. Both of my brothers had clean hair at the [...]
I keep waiting for the moment when I have like an hour to concentrate on posting all the great exciting things that happened this week, but clearly that isn’t going to happen. So instead, I’m going to do little driveby postings and maybe we’ll end up with some assembly of things that look like Christmas.
Right [...]