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jonah’s wisdom

On zoology:

Regarding our cat…

Thatz BAMbino! He DOEZnt Hayve HANDSzzz.

On (mythic) zoology:

Regarding a drawing in a book…

That’s aaaah Eyouu-nick-ornn! It has a LONGggg horn that goezz BeepBeep.

On physics/geometry:

No matter what size container Jonah has managed to get himself into, basket, cardboard box, pack-n-play, crib…

Mommeeee HAZto get INit!

On . . . → Read More: jonah’s wisdom

baby’s first bike ride (part 2)

What? you say. Where was part 1? I saw no such thing.

Jonah has been on a bike-in-motion precisely one time before. Click here to read about it.

Okay, so I didn’t KNOW I was pregnant the day I wrote that, but if you note the date of that post and then click here, you . . . → Read More: baby’s first bike ride (part 2)

mom’s day out

Other people have been watching my kid a lot lately. The nanny should really write her own guest post about how they went for a ride on the BUS! the other day, with another nanny and the 3-year-old girl she watches. The two kids held hands, as soon as they got on board she started . . . → Read More: mom’s day out

the spider is little and big

Today there was a dead spider on the stair.

Jonah doesn’t know about dead. He just knows spider. And he knows he likes spider.

His commentary runs thusly:

LOOKatthe Spai-durr!

Want to TOUCH it.

(Mother exhorts child not to touch. We don’t touch spiders, we only look at them.)

Put HIM onmy HAND

(We did . . . → Read More: the spider is little and big

says madelyn

My kid does the best cat meow imitation ever. If there were a contest at the county fair, he’d totally win. Because he learned how to speak cat from Bambino.

M-AOW! Bambino says, sharp and loud. Because he’s that kind of cat.

M-AOW! Jonah says right back. And has continued to say whenever he chats . . . → Read More: says madelyn

elent evaporates

E – e – e, what begins with E?

I’d barely noted that Jonah had been hanging on to his own personal interpretation of the pronounciation of elephant when…

Today he was holding up his swim trunks, the orange ones with the animals all over, and he pointed and said, with absolutely perfect clarity, “There’s . . . → Read More: elent evaporates

and so it goes

Jonah’s sleep is so much better and mine is so much worse.

Why, insomnia? Why?

Is it because I’m 40? Is this some kind of pere-meno-wha?-z’all thing? Oh dear.

Or just the moon?

Not that Jonah didn’t wake up at 2:30 a.m. last night. Just that he went right back to sleep while I, who . . . → Read More: and so it goes

i know i am a good mom when

I know I am a good mom when I pack a small bpa-free plastic container (festive, purple bottom/green top) with homemade meatballs and peas and rice and I remember the spoon too for our late afternoon trip to the park. I sense he is hungry and suggest a snack. He complies. He sits on my . . . → Read More: i know i am a good mom when