Archive for April, 2011
Harrison: “I’m going to marry a princess. I’m going to marry Princess Fiona… I’m going to marry Princess Fiona and you mommy.” Me: “Me? How nice.” Harrison: “You AND Princess Fiona.” … Harrison: “Which one is the bad guy?” Me: “There are no bad guys. It’s a beautiful royal wedding. It’s a happy day.” … disappointed silence [...]
April 30th, 2011 | Posted in communication | 2 Comments
Harrison has started singing a lot these days – little ditties that he has written, many of which I have no clue as to their inspiration, like this for example: “I never wanna go ta Jaaaaay-aaaall. I never wanna go ta Jaaaaay-aaaall. I never wanna go ta Jaaaaay-aaaall. I never wanna go ta Jaaaaay-aaaall. I [...]
April 29th, 2011 | Posted in communication | No Comments
Harrison: “Mom, see that water coming out of my eyes?” Me: “Tears? What are they from?” (There were no real tears – he had just been laying down and his eyes were watering a little bit) Harrison: “It’s ’cause I missed you. A new category has been added to this blog – this post now [...]
April 27th, 2011 | Posted in communication, manipulation | No Comments
I picked up H from school after a rough day (he didn’t sleep well the night before and he was exhausted. He just wanted to “eat dinner and watch Shrek” – which frankly sounded fantastic, however, early that day I had banned TV for the entire day (I have no idea what I was thinking – [...]
April 25th, 2011 | Posted in communication | No Comments
Harrison: “I’m not too big. I’m not too small. I’m perfectly sized.” Listening: Ben Kweller
April 22nd, 2011 | Posted in communication | 1 Comment
Harrison: “Mom, I love you more than posipcals.” So, first – he is trying to say popsicles – it’s the one word that trips him up that we can’t bring ourselves to correct, because it’s too darn cute. Yes, we are aware of what horrible parenting that is. Second – seriously that statement was out [...]
April 20th, 2011 | Posted in bad parents, communication | 2 Comments
For a while now, work has been piling on – WHICH IS FANTASTIC – however, add that to a 4-5 days of derby practice (at 2+ hours each) and there isn’t a lot of time for Marc and me to remember life outside of our responsibilities. But, a week or so ago we had dinner at [...]
April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Friends of the kid | 1 Comment
A week ago: A year ago: 2 years ago: Listening: Junip
April 19th, 2011 | Posted in Baby | 3 Comments
More about that awesomeness here. Listeing: Warpaint
April 18th, 2011 | Posted in nothing to do with our baby | No Comments
Yes, we also work. A lot. Here are a couple photos from our bout on Sunday and see all of them here. I’m not a big hitter and I’m not a jammer anymore so, there aren’t that many photos of me, but, I’m still playing which given the state of my knee is pretty much [...]
April 15th, 2011 | Posted in roller derby | 2 Comments