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Monthly Archives: August 2007

From the Mouths of Babes, the Ongoing Saga

Doodles had gymnastics camp (which was a woe in and of itself, but I won’t go into that now), so I had some quality Pie time. Pie loves to walk. In the morning, still in her pajamas, she’ll grab my hand and pull me to the door, ordering, “Take a walk! Take a walk! Put [...]

Proof That Adam Really Is a Novice…

After Doodles opens up his gift, a new plane, and wants to play with it immediately. Me to Adam: Do you want to assemble it or should I do it?Adam: What are you talking about? It comes assembled.Me: So should I assemble it?Adam: It’s pretty much one one piece. See? [Opens lid. Sits back.] Oh [...]

Birthday Survival

Oh, the greed. The greed! “Presents! Presents! Presents!” The chant haunts me. I hear it in my sleep. I hear it when I’m reading the paper. I hear it in the car. Those two monkeys have it down to a science: Just when I’m relaxing, just when I least expect it, “Can we open more [...]

Should We Start His Therapy Now?

I asked Doodles to make a card for his grandmother’s birthday.He was happy to comply–the kids likes art (although Pie is obsessed with making pictures). He painted this card, and I said, “I love the bold use of colors!” He replied, “Yeah. Do you know what it is?” “No, I don’t. Do you want to [...]

Big Boys and Girls

I’m in birthday mode. Tomorrow, my big precious angel turns four. On Saturday, my not-so-big precious angel turns two. And I will be having nine preschoolers and six toddlers over on Sunday. You know, Sunday. The day for which scattered thunderstorms are being predicted. Not Monday, which will be sunny. Or Saturday, which is merely [...]

Out of the Mouths of Babes

I have a ton of work to do tonight and I haven’t even had dinner, so my impulse was to skip blogging, but those two pieces of work have been too funny lately. This afternoon, we were at the playground with Doodles’s female friend, J. They were on the other side of the playground, and [...]

KeflexHead

You don’t need to go ask Alice; you can simply go ask Pie. That’s right, my beautiful, smart, spunky daughter is destined to grow up and be a junkie. And her big brother isn’t going to be too far behind her. About three weeks or so, Pie came down with impetigo. The doctor prescribed a [...]

Random Litany of Mom Complaints

And now to return to my regularly scheduled mom gripes: The Pie is a force to be reckoned with. At this age, Doodles was a sound sleeper. Pie is too… once she gets to sleep. We’ve returned to the crying for about a half hour or so every night. We’ve given up on the sock [...]

Eight Things About Me

So Roni tagged me with a meme. I think this is actually the first time I’ve been tagged with one, and it is something I’ve actually been thinking about, because when I look at my blog, I feel so one-sided. There’s so much about me none of you know and that I just don’t blog [...]