If it’s happened two days in a row, it’s still just a coincidence, right? Check with me tomorrow to see if we go for three times and therefore a pattern. Faithful readers know that I read The Book, that my…
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must have more
Well, we finally have achieved sign language. Yesterday, after I read a requested “Book!” he said “Moooureh” and made the little two birds kissing sign with his hands. So that’s it folks. The boy has learned how to sign and…
some words we didn’t mean to teach him
The verbal blue streak continues with: chair crab hippopotamus spiderman box top (as in jar and box) water hat turtle wallet He even took the top off a box, and when I put it on my head, he said “Hat!”…
new words and fried potatoes
He doesn’t know how to say Hannukah yet, but lately he’s picked up a few more words. Animal sounds: He was facing off with the cat the other morning — each on either side of the childproof gate in the…
the wave
The boy says “Hi” all the time now. He says it with a little inflection. And a smile. Sometimes he sounds southern. Always he sounds like he’s flirting, a touch mischievous. He says it to women pretty much wherever we…
no is a one way street
I recently realized something I should have noticed a while ago. I mean really. Who is in charge around here? When that boy says ‘no’ he means no. No, don’t put me in that jumper. No, I don’t want to…
coming home, catching up, plus baby gift guide
We’re baaaaack. And I’m backdating and publishing the stories I wrote but didn’t post while we were away over Thanksgiving, staying with Scott’s dad and stepmom in the wilds of Magdalena where cell phones don’t work and even though they…
the last meal and saying goodbye
We had a pretty darn amazing green chile turkey enchilada our last night there: The next day, we said goodbye: Goodbye Jackie. Goodbye Buddy. Goodbye Magdalena Grandma and Grandpa.