May 7th, 2009
We are not a codfish.
Nicolaus is in love with Mary Poppins. Not the movie but the actual lady herself, Mary Poppins. It’s that bag. How does she do that? We only saw 20 minutes of the movie and my goodness he spent the rest of the evening pretending to pull large things out of very small containers. Every time I acted amazed. Holy moly! How did you — wha?? He’s a witch!! Kill him!
Graham, meanwhile, is a kitty. I just thought you should know.
Today the kitty announced that this was a happy day, partly because of a rule we have: any time I get a new wholesale account OR a bit of press, the boys each get a donut from Krispy Kreme. Thanks to this article, for which I was interviewed whilst on a good bit of cold medicine, Graham and Nicolaus scored a donut today and so oh! happy day. We also spent a good bit of the afternoon playing outside during a short break between tornado watches. There were some great puddles to splash in, great enough to ignore the threat of having to go inside, the threat of having all of their toys taken away, the threat of big enormous unending timeouts. They expressed zero remorse as I marched them with their muddy sandals and cold, soaked feet back inside. Totally worth it.
Now there are some photographs.
Shit. I can’t find my card reader. Tomorrow there will be photographs.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Wow, so young and yet already able to make risk assessment judgement calls! Looks like chose to go with the Tom Cruise character’s motto from “Risky Business”: “Sometimes you just have to say, ‘what the %$#^!’ “.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
That’s a great interview. Nicolaus should really get another Krispy Kreme for handing out your business cards.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:50 am
A wonderful book “Your Inner Fish” , by Neil Shubin seems to indicate to the contrary, ie. we may well be a codfish indeed.
I think I was the only kid to point out that everybody could see up M.P.s dress when she flew holding on to her umbrella.
No to codfish oil but enforce the “brush your teeth if you want to have teeth” rule after having all the donuts.
Kids should be running most of corporate America, not just helping out with a little marketing here and there. Our child labor laws were meant to protect them from the sweat shops of the early 20th century.
The little guys could totally handle the daily stresses of our modern “economy in the toilet” corporate america, would probably be far more ethical and would definately do a superior job.
And they will work for pastry!
May 8th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Congrats on the article and the new kitty. I don’t think I remembered to tell you that the nerdy parents (one a new Ph.D herself) LOVED the Nerdy Alphabet and (kiss, kiss you wonderful woman) the Nerdy Numbers. They are now being put into service as decor in baby Fangette Green’s nursery.
I also agree with Dadio that Nicolaus and Graham should be running the country. Imagine how inventive, (mostly) peaceful and creative we would be!
May 8th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Nice article!
I have to tell you, yesterday my son informed me he has a new invisible horse named…. Darn It. And my first thought was, zomg he’s channeling Graham!
May 8th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Your son and my (5 1/2 year old) daughter should start a marketing firm together. To wit: she introduces me as the “kitchen witch,” in a very casual and matter-of-fact way to perfect strangers, as though not only should they totally know what that means, but if they don’t, there is no reason at all to find it odd that my daughter just called me a witch.
Clearly, I didn’t think that part through when coming up with the name for my business.
May 9th, 2009 at 11:31 am
How cool! My 4-year-old daughter Zoe is also a kitty! But where are the pics? I was promised pictures, you know.