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You\'ll Be Happy to Know... Tori Fixed the Moon
The other day we were driving home from daycare and came around the corner to see the big, fat moon perched high in the sky. Full enough to call it a full moon and early enough in the evening that it looked enormous overhead. I pointed it out to Tris...
Rooting for the Home Team
My husband is a 49ers fan, therefore, by default, I am also a 49ers fan. This also means that during childrearing on Sundays during football season we diligently train our children to root for my husband's "home team". Considering their wins du...
How We React to Adversity and Danger
Last night we were all sitting in the living room watching the new Star Trek movie. Our family rule with PG-13 movies is that Rob and I watch them first to preview them, then if they are okay with just a couple of bad parts we just diligently c...
How You Know a Girl Likes You
I picked up Tristan at daycare. We sat in the car a moment waiting for a dad to move out of the way of our car so I didn't plow over him and his adorable baby daughter. Tristan says, "Dat's Candy. I wike her and she wikes me." "Yeah? That's nice." ...
Pancakes in the Nude
The following conversation took place between my mom and Tristan while we were on a short road trip over the weekend. I can't remember exactly how the conversation got started but we were talking about cooking or food or life or who knows what...
Can You Hear Me Now?
Tristan's speech is improving so much these days. It's really delightful to be able to have some almost-regular conversations with him. The other day he woke up and found me sitting on the couch, settled into my arms and we chatted about various impo...
The Abuse Continues
My boys are going to the dark side. More and more they act like their father, talk like their father, throw temper tantrums like their father, and want to do things with their dad more often than me. The other night I was tucking our youngest to bed...
Why Some Mommys Get Tired
My son, the toddler vegetarian will currently only eat rice, broccoli and yogurt but only if the yogurt doesn't have chunks of fruit in it. Occasionally he will share some lettuce with the guinea pigs by yanking it out of their mouths and stuffing it...
The Epiphany of Materialism
My youngest son, who is two, has very strong ideas about the way things should be and when they don't go exactly the way they are supposed to go in his orderly little universe, his train derails and the whole world comes crashing in.Once when I passe...
Casper, the REALLY Friendly Ghost and Other Conversational Tidbits
I tucked Tristan into bed and he was fussy. He kept asking to hug me, but what he really wanted was for me to hug him. After hugging him about five times I finally got a stuffed toy for him to cuddle while he was falling asleep.I just grabbed one, ...
Anatomy 101
The other day the kids and I were over at mom's cabin. I was fussing with her new water filter pitcher because she doesn't have the patience to read the directions. Fortunately for all the members in my family, I LOVE reading directions. It's one ...
Let's Work This Out
I don't really understand the relationship between my sons. There are things they do that make me come completely unglued and my husband claims that I have to just "let it go" because "that's how boys are" or it's some kind of thing between brothers....
Small Town Snapshot Sunday #17
It's Small Town Snapshot Sunday! Read the rules and get the banners here. Be sure you include the link to your post at the bottom of this entry and also, tag your post "stss" or "small town snapshot sunday" so people can search for it and find you! T...
Urinary Tract Adventures (UTAs)
Between my son's particular medical condition which gives us periodic trips to the hospital and my mom's occasional adventures in health care, I rack up a lot of frequent flyer miles in doctor's offices, hospitals and waiting rooms.It started Thursda...
Counting is Private
Two helicopters. One flew out of Tristan's hands and ended up under the edge of the car seat where he couldn't reach it. Howls of protest flew through the air like a flush of bats waking up to feed.One helicopter. Three propeller blades. It all added...
New and Improved Vocabulary
Here are some new vocabulary words and expressions Tristan has learned in the last couple of weeks along with sentences that show their proper usage:delicateNo, Tristan, don't hit the butterfly with the sword. It's delicate.butterbugMommy. Butterbug....
How to Take Care of a Cat
How to Take Care of a Catby TristanSit as close to the cat as possible without being actually on top of him and stare at him directly in the face.Tweak the tips of his ears frequently.Pull his tail.If you feel like sitting close to him is just not cl...
Cat Scratch Fever, Duh Nuh Nuh
I've had this Ted Nugent song in my head all morning. I suppose I'm dating myself at this point, although maybe by now everyone understands that I'm a sedentary middle-aged mother-of-two who knows who Ted Nugent is. Although, honestly, I think I mo...
One Day it Will All Make Sense
Drives to drop-offs are getting more fun with the boys these days because Tristan is actually starting to, sort of, have conversations. Completely with nouns and an occasional adjective, but that's possible to do and be understood. It might not gua...
What I Contend With
Sorry for the fuzzy photos below, but I'm lucky to have gotten these at all. We were at a baseball game and I was trying to get some action scenes on the field. I happen to notice that Tristan had wandered off (my mom was supposed to be watching hi...
Faulty Logic and Things that are Just Plain Wrong
My son Tristan, who is 2.5 years old, has faulty logic. I don't hold it against him since he's young. (I save the scorn and ridicule until he's about three, so please don't think I'm cruel.) He also has some strange ideas about life -- many, many t...
A Touching Limerick
Outside it was cold and rainingInside a toddler was potty trainingHe went to the potAnd sat down to squatWhich was great, except for his aiming ...
Sarcasm is Not Becoming
And now let's pause a brief moment and call it an interlude of full-disclosure. This is me in one of my less-attractive mothering moments:Tristan: [slams cup down on my laptop] Juice! [While he waits for me to respond he jumps up and down on my lapto...
Challenge is a Matter of Perspective
As I was driving away from the last city council meeting I was thinking about the challenges I face.Behind me was the challenge of wrangling a budget to come up with $33,000 more dollars to pay for new insurance for city employees. Behind me was a c...
Blast from the Past
I ran across these when I was looking for something else. These are pictures of The Toddler as a newborn after his very first bath. He was completely traumatized. I still can't get over those eyes! ...
Pay No Attention, Please
And now it's time for me to relate the most embarrassing moment in baseball history. My baseball history, at least.Tonight was the first game of my son's baseball season. His first "real" game.I came armed with my good camera and the BIG lens, beca...
Do You Know What That Meat Is?
It must be strange conversation day at our household. It started yesterday, I think. The Toddler is finally starting to figure out putting two words together. In the bathtub yesterday Julius decided he was going to help him "practice" some of his ...
Relax!
The Toddler, I have mentioned before, is very high strung. Hence, I am very high strung. Or maybe I have that backwards.Anyway, he has a new word... "relax". It's because I say it to him frequently. He now repeats it as I get him tucked in to wat...
Satisfaction
When you look in the dictionary under "unsolicited advice" there's a picture of my mother there.Her favorite topics are medical advice, legal advice and parental advice. But she doesn't stop there. Pretty much she will embrace all topics. She's an...
The Frog
This morning on the way to daycare both boys were sitting in the back seat. I hear Tristan start screaming, "Gog! Gog! Gog!" I have no idea what "gog" is, so I glance back to see if he is signing anything and, sure enough, he's making the sign for f...
