Archive for October, 2007

The toddler also speaks

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Graham’s seeming slightly less likely than his brother to be a future poet or lit major. More of a literalist.
“I have. To. Tell you. Somepin. Mama!”
“Yeah?”
“I. Have to. Tell you. About. A. Crocodile.”
“Okay, I’m ready. Tell me about it.”
“I need to. Tell you. Somepinaboutta. Crocodile, Mama.”
“Tell me something about a crocodile.”
“My crocodile is like… My. [...]

Nicolaus speaks.

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Nicolaus grabs words and phrases from tv shows and movies and uses them.
“Graham, you’re so humble. You’re a humble humble baby, aren’t you?”
“My shoes are in the bathroom, I reckon.” You reckon? Really? Stop looking for your shoes and come here and let me hug you right this minute.
We’ve been watching these Popular Mechanics for [...]

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Sunday, October 28th, 2007

I finally managed to update my site with the new plexi bird design, the Montessori bird prints, and of course we must not forget – the totally inappropriate holiday cards.

Girls girls girls

Friday, October 26th, 2007

This summer, Kevin was in the pool with Nicolaus trying to teach him how to swim even though that’s crazy because he already KNOWS HOW TO SWIM, as part of already knowing everything about everything we try to overtly teach him. But it’s true, as long as he wears his floaty thingy, he can swim [...]

A post full of everything

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, Kevin made himself a huge pot of smalltown boy soup. I’m not excited about soup. I have no particular problem with it, it’s not gross or anything… I just always go mmm yeah soup. Or! Oooh! Something else!
Well it was a really really huge pot of soup see, and our [...]