This year, Connor asked Santa to bring 200 Webkinz, please! Santa told Connor he’d have to see if he could find a big enough box. Ryan requested Legos, cars, and Webkinz – he said he’d let Santa decide how many. And now two very wound-up, excited little boys are tucked in their beds, visions of…
Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade is a Thanksgiving morning tradition in our home. This year’s parade provided more than colorful floats, melodic bands, and giant balloons, it provided comic relief: During a commercial break, Patrick and the kids were telling me about the Smurf float in the parade. Now as a child of the 80s,…
Connor, Future Olympian! With Ryan in New Jersey at Grandma’s for K*nex and Lego camps, Connor has been enjoying a few of his own privileges here at home. He has taken to staying up past his regular bedtime to watch the Olympics with Dad. Each night, Connor falls in love with another sport! He has…
Don’t talk anybody, don’t come near!Can’t you see the fish might hear?He thinks I’m playing with a piece of string;He thinks I’m another sort of funny thing,But he doesn’t know I’m fishing-He doesn’t know I’m fishing.That’s what I’m doing –Fishing. A.A. MilneNow We Are Six The kids weren’t quiet, they couldn’t keep from jumping into…
What do you do on a Code Red Day? SOMETHING WET!
Tonight at dinner, Patrick and I were playing 20 Questions with the boys. It was my turn to answer questions posited by Patrick and the boys as they tried to guess what was on my mind: Dick Dastardly (the villain from the Wacky Races cartoons; a favorite of a young Patrick and now of the…
Connor’s speech teacher has been working with him on nursery rhymes. So far, he has mastered the following: Big Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet… Jack be nimble,Jack be quick,Jack jump over a train. and Mary had a little lamb… whose fleece was white as snow.It followed her to soccer practice one day… and then,…
Connor, dressing the part. The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus presented a spectacular show this evening. Clowns, acrobats, daredevils, and animals big and small thrilled the audience with music and stunts, but the little guy in the seat next to me stole the show with his complete belief that all he saw was real,…
Ryan, Sarah and Connor with the signs they made to help bring Leya safely home. Leya ran away today! Ryan and I were preparing to leave Grandma’s house and in the effort to get the car loaded, the front door was left open just a fraction of a second too long – Leya ran out…
Four hours into our five-and-a-half-hour drive to New Jersey, amidst much commotion, complaints of “he’s on my side” and “Leya’s stepping on the crackers,” and threats of turning the car around, Connor says, “Mommy, I sooo happy!” Having no idea what this could be in reference to, I asked what made him so happy, to…