Last night James had used our handled wire mesh strainer to drain something while making dinner. Jakey got one look at it in the bottom of the sink and declared, “Butterflies! I catch it!” We took the “butterfly net” outside and he spent at least an hour swinging it around. …
Today’s Nate’s 1 month birthday! He is just the sweetest little baby. This week he has found his smile. It is so cute, but too fleeting for me to capture. In other news, he’s already losing his hair. Baby pattern baldness. I’d say Jake’s baldness served him quite well……
When you’re in your thirties, you think you know yourself. And then you find you live with a two-year-old. It began with our car. I went to Jake’s school to pick him up at the end of the day and he fought me like a warrior when it came to…
When asked by his teachers what Baby Nate looks like, Jake replied, “Cute.”
As most people know, we have yet another kid. No, not as in human child… as in baby goat. I didn’t think it was possible that we could produce another youngster we would be inclined to call Goat Boy, but, alas, it is true. When we brought Baby Jakey home,…
Last night Jake asked us to read him “Mugger Goose! Mugger Goose!” You know… nursery rhymes like Mary Had A Little Habit, Georgie Forgie, The House That Jack Tagged, and Little Ho Peep. The classics.
When Jake was born, one of the details I remember is the nurse saying that the baby didn’t have any hair. Little did she know that he had quite a bit of hair… in comparison to the next two years. He was born with straight brown hair that proceeded to…
There was the Dutch Tulip Bubble, the Dot Com Bubble, the Housing Market Bubble. Potentially not as well recognized, but I think there has definitely been a Starbucks Bubble… quick tangent: James ruined a perfectly good evening for me by announcing that Starbucks is thinking of buying Peet’s. One of…
As many folks have noticed, Jake is a chatterbox. I’d say at two years old he spontaneously produces at least 250 words and phrases, possibly 300. Some of my more recent favorites include, “No like it!” Although this one is usually accompanied by tears and/or struggling. I was also quite…
Sleeps like a baby. Drinks like a fish. Screams like a little girl. Burps like a man.