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Four
What Four looks like in the morning: "Mom, I don't want pants. No pants.""I don't want that shirt. Nooooo! Light McQueen shirt! No, not that Light McQueen shirt!""I don't want breakfast.""Mom, I watch?...
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We had your birthday celebration yesterday, and as it does every year, it involved waffles and cake. This year I could actually ask you what kind of cake you wanted, and you told me you wanted a...
View ArticleSilence
I realize that I am not blogging much for you lately. It isn’t that I don’t have anything to say; I think it’s more that I say so much during the course of a day, that after you’ve gone to sleep I just...
View ArticleGrowing pains
You had a growth spurt recently, which means we went through copious amounts of peanut butter sandwiches, and a couple of sleepless nights due to pains in your legs.“Here, buddy,” I said on the third...
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Just so we’re clear, it is the dog’s fault that I won’t make you large...
(Fine, you will still get Christmas presents. I just feel compelled to blame as much as possible on that stupid canine.)
View ArticleThose bears are my kind of people
I sometimes witness other people’s kids getting asked to do stuff, and then they just do it. This usually makes me a little jealous and frustrated, because that is not how you operate.Except…sometimes...
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Holiday Recap
We had Christmas.Then we had Christmas again.Then we went to the Science Center for New Years.I’m tired. Is it time to go back to work yet?
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Navigating the pink and blue waters
“Wow, buddy, that’s very pretty,” I said, after you put the finishing glitter on your pink-and-purple digger.“No, mom, he’s handsome,” you corrected me. “He’s a boy digger. Girls are pretty, boys are...
View ArticleJust do it. Not just a Nike slogan.
Right now you are dozing off to sleep, an hour past your bedtime, in a small tent that not only houses our couch cushions, but also has its own freakin’ foyer constructed of more couch cushions and...
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Winging it
(Behind a bus, on the way to daycare.)"Mom, why are buses so slow?""Well, they're big. Big things are slow.""What about semis? Semis go fast.""Yes, but they start out slow. They have to build up their...
View ArticleAche
The other day you asked me to take off your necklace. Interestingly, you were playing dressup in a dress and hair barrettes, but for some reason the necklace suddenly offended you."Okay, buddy," I said...
View ArticleXanderisms, circa age 4 years 9 months
callapitters: Caterpillars. There are about 12 of them living in a plastic container in your room. You are convinced they will turn into "beeeyoooootiful butterflies". I don't have the heart to tell...
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Kindergarten
So, kindergarten.THAT happened. Is happening. I had a lot of anxiety about it, before it started happening, though not for the usual reasons. I’m quite happy for you to pass on to new phases of life,...
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Costumed Avenger
You like costumes. Like, you really like dressing up. So much so that occasionally you wear them ALL, and toddle around the house like some sort of Spider-Thor-ladybug-dragon sumo wrestler.So I guess...
View ArticleConversations we've had in the last 24 hours
You: "Poop. Poo. Poo. Poo."Me: "Xander, please don't use bathroom words."You: "Poo-"Me: "Xander."You: "-dle. Poodle."Me: "...."You: "Poodle. Poodle, poodle, poodle. A poodle is a type of dog, mom....
View ArticleStruggles
Kindergarten is hard.I mean, it's hard for me, I struggle with remembering what day is Pajama Day and what day you're supposed to bring a family photo (that we don't possess) and to remember to go over...
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Afraid
Along with your recent interest in Ghostbusters comes an overuse of the tagline, "I aint afraid of no ghosts". You said it once and we thought it was funny, and now you say it all. the. time.You'd...
View ArticleA post about laying around doing nothing
After getting up and puking several times Saturday night, I let you lay around all Sunday watching tv.(I was rather keen on laying around all day watching tv myself, so it was an easy sell.)Near the...
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Kindergarten comes to an end.
Kindergarten graduation! That's a thing! A thing that I almost forgot about, because I'm an awesome parent.My phone reminded me about it 15 minutes before it was time, so I high-tailed it over and was...
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If I posted more often it wouldn't be novel-length.
So, summer! That happened. I obviously didn't blog about it, though there was Stuff That Happened. Notable achievements included: your father breaking his leg the day before we were to go camping,...
View ArticleI don't have my poop in a group, at all.
When you are a kid, it seems to you that your parents are Very Responsible People. Well, all grown-ups, really, with maybe the exception of your fun aunt, but even she pays bills and has a car and has...
View ArticleManaging Expectations
The building complex where I work had a "children's Christmas party" this past weekend, so I took you. I had to sign you up in advance so that when we went, there was a stocking with your name on it,...
View ArticleMy 6 year old outsmarted me, but in my defense I hadn't had my coffee yet
The other day we were going over to a friend's place, but they weren't quite home yet, so we were killing a bit of time. I decided to go through the Tim Horton's drive through for a coffee."Do you want...
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