Archive for August, 2009
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 traveling light:
No matter what object, large or small, practical [...]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 at 10:27 am in baby baby baby | 1 Comment »
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 can see [...]
Posted by calm mama on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 at 1:07 pm in baby baby baby | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm in just me, sleep | 1 Comment »
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 let him play with an ant the [...]
Posted by calm mama on Saturday, August 15th, 2009 at 9:27 pm in conversations | 2 Comments »
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 directly with [...]