You can tell Doodles is the son of a Harvard MBA: he has his manipulation skills down pat, and he’s only twenty-one-months old. Doodles hates having his diaper changed. So when I put him on the changing table, he’s learned the one thing that will delay poop removal. He looks up at me, smiles, and [...]
I’m trying a new technique that the Y-chromosomed folk in my immediate family have perfected: selective hearing. Doodles is proving that it’s a skill the men are simply born with; I plan to prove that it can also be acquired. For instance, right now Doodles is sitting in his favorite perch–behind the cushion on our [...]
Yesterday was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day (and if you don’t know that reference, read this book immediately!). It was one of those days that truly wasn’t so bad when you try to lay it out, but when you add in the pregnancy fatigue and hormones and stress, just pushed me to [...]
On Sunday, we made the trek to Jordan’s Furniture, which for those who don’t live in the area, is Massachusett’s answer to Disney World. There are trapeze artists and light/water shows. The kids get carted around in little taxis or fire engines. Huge displays made of jelly beans grace the walls. There’s an IMAX theater. [...]
Adam made us cookies tonight. He ate half his share and then went off to solve a bathroom sink plumbing problem. “Hey,” I finally told him, “you still have two cookies left here. You can’t just leave two chocolate chip cookies next to a pregnant woman. They’re not safe.” “I trust you,” he said. Trust [...]
The little monkey is developing in leaps and bounds. And I actually mean that literally. Doodles’s gross motor skills are starting to catch up to his peers’ (not that he was that far behind, but gross motor skill are his weakest area–I learned that babies who don’t crawl on hands and knees are often a [...]
Many Doodle stories are ones I won’t blog. A few that I find very amusing, I’ll send around in an e-mail to friends. I think that some things are just a little too personal. This is actually one of them, however I’m so annoyed at my child for not sleeping, I’ve decided to take my [...]
Some weeks I just don’t feel like posting and this is one of them. My desire to post is often in direct correlation to Doodles’s napping schedule. Today, for instance, is a no-nap day. He slept for exactly six minutes in the car and then refused to do the transfer. So now I have an [...]