Growing Up and Chilling Out

| August 23, 2009

Sweet little baby. Cuddly, cozy and warm. So innocent and tiny . . . Oh wait. This is one of my children we’re talking about here. Scratch that tiny part. And might as well take out the little while we’re at it. Dudes, I just tucked MJ into her pajamas for the night. Pajamas that [...]

Conversing: Toddler Style

| August 20, 2009

There has been a major speech explosion around here lately. The toddler has gone straight from parrot to voice recorder. Everything is repeated. Every. Single. Thing. It’s entertaining and wickedly frightening at the same time. In addition to the repeating, the conversations just keep growing and growing. Sentences are getting longer and wild, imaginative stories [...]

Roundabouts: Coming To A Hazardous Intersection Near You

| August 19, 2009

What happens when a city planner gets all ambitious and worldly and goes and authorizes a traffic circle in the middle of a podunk township, on a road that would almost qualify for being called “rural”? Pandelerium. That’s what. Folks here can’t drive in the first place. It rains, they loose their minds. It snows, [...]

More Bubbles!!!!

| August 19, 2009

One clearanced kiddie pool + One bottle of Mr. Bubble + Four buckets of hot water + One gloriously sunny evening . . . All that equals two ridiculously happy kiddos. Miss E dove right in, piling mounds of bubbles on top of her head. MJ got dunked in for just a minute before it [...]

iHeartFaces – Bubbles

| August 19, 2009

This week’s theme over at iHeartFaces is Bubbles. I’ve been wanting to do this for E for a while, so it was the perfect excuse to bust out the kiddie pool and have a wild time with bubble bath. Head on over to see the rest of this week’s bubble filled entries. Check out the [...]