Posts Tagged ‘sweetness and light’
Want to play a hundred?
Mom, lets play a hundred.
Hmm. I don’t know how to play that.
Oh, it’s eeeea-sy! First I say a number and then you say a number, and then the one who says the biggest is the winner.
Okay.
Now, the youngest goes first, so I go first.
Okay.
Okay. Thirty-nine hundred jillion google thousand hundred twenty-eight thirty-six thousand hundred.
Whoa.
Yeah, that [...]
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Tags: older son, sweetness and light, weird names
Something funny has happened. The toddler is enaging in the Shriek more than ever. But he’s realized that people hate it, that it is not nice for others’ ears. So he says “sah-wee” (sorry) afterwards, sometimes.
Well, until the last few days. Now he is saying sorry a LOT. And sometimes he seems to shriek just [...]
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Tags: minions of Satan, older son, sweetness and light, The Shriek, toddler
More?
If you have a baby these days and you’re at all hip you probably know a little bit about baby signs. My baby, like other babies I’ve known (including older son), mostly uses the “more” sign, which is made by putting the tips of your hands together, as this cutie demonstrates on youtube. Actually, that’s [...]
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Tags: language, sign language, sweetness and light, weird names
Son: Come here!
Mom: Just a sec, I’m trying on these shirts I got at the reduce-reuse-recycle store.
Son: Okay.
Mom: What do you think? (sporting long-sleeved black shirt with some sparkles)
Son: (groan) I hate it.
Mom: Well it would be good for going out dancing or something, don’t you think?
Son: Oh, yeah, yeah. (pause) But Mom, our [...]
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Tags: older son, sweetness and light
A story from my friend Alison about her adorable daughter.
Daughter: Hey younger brother… wait, mom, what day is it today?
Alison: Martin Luther King, Jr., day.
Daughter: Oh yeah. Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. day! The leprechaun didn’t come.
Alison: Sweetie, that’s St. Patrick’s Day.
Daughter: Oh. When is that?
Alison: March, I think.
Daughter: Never mind, younger [...]
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The Shriek, revisited.
Actually, more like the shrieking, it’s a phenomenon and never just a single shriek. It is really, really loud and almost unbearable. Your ears hurt. Morning car rides are a common venue for the shrieking, I think because the toddler hates to be trapped in his car seat. Older son and I try to explain [...]
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Tags: older son, sweetness and light, The Shriek, toddler
Me
The toddler loves music and dancing, as I think I’ve mentioned before. Today I was holding him in my arms and we were dancing to a little hip-hop (Tribe Called Quest, Stir It Up), and he caught his own image in the mirror. He smiled really big, and continued his snaps and waving [...]
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Tags: music, sweetness and light
Mom: You need to take a bath.
Son: Oh, mom!
Mom: Really. It’s been three days. And we’re getting you a haircut today.
Son: But mom! Let me tell you something.
Mom: Hmm.
Son: Did you know that roadrunner crocodiles can go without water for ten days?
Mom: Hmm.
Son: Yeah. Did you know that they hold water in their skin?
Mom: Let [...]
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Tags: animals, older son, sweetness and light, weird names
The Whisper Voice
In addition to his happy shriek, the toddler has developed a whisper voice. Again, he seems to talk this way mainly to amuse me and his older brother. Older brother thinks it is hilarious. Toddler seems to be saying “da da da da da,” but in a baby whisper, and with a twinkle in his [...]
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Pirate music
Wow! I was going to post this morning to say that older son still loves to listen to Modest Mouse’s song Dashboard for ten or fifteen minutes every morning, running around wildly, acting like a pirate in some kind of battle. He calls it the pirate song.
Turns out, he’s been doing that for almost a year now! How [...]
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Tags: fun, minions of Satan, music, sweetness and light
