Retraction

Admittedly, I’ve always been unsympathetic to what I’ll call Mom Frump.  Jeans with white Reeboks.  Scrunchies.  Headbands.  You’ve seen their pictures in Glamour magazine—  unsuspecting moms sporting fashion faux pas and black bars over their eyes.  Just because you have kids doesn’t mean you grab your appliqued sweatshirt, slip-on your…

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Just Right

Every night at bedtime we have an elaborate routine that begins with bath time and ends with “talking yes-ter-day.”  Talking yesterday is basically going over what we did yesterday.  The last few nights Jake has changed it up and now likes me to tell him a story and then he…

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Dinosoar

On Sunday we went to Jakey’s friend Brady’s third birthday party at the Children’s Discovery Museum.  It was all about dinosaurs, those little roll-up party horns and unnatural colors of frosting.  After we got hopped-up on sugar and paraphernalia dinosauria, we decided to check-out the museum. Jake’s favorite stop was…

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The Princess & the Frog

“Mama, I’m the Daddy froggy and you’re the Mama froggy.” (squeaky voice which I guess is how amphibians and puppies talk) “OK.” “What are you doing Mama froggy?” “I’m changing Nate’s dirty diaper.” “I’m the Daddy froggy.” “Oh good.  Then how ’bout you change Nate’s diaper.” “Nope, I can’t.  I’m…

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Bio

This week we got a flier with Jacob’s first pre-school assignment.  I thought I had at least another two years before I’d have homework hanging over my head again… So, instead of blogging I should be creating a poster that is all about Jake’s life up until this point.  James…

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6 Tooth

James has been checking my blog visit analytics and apparently one of my highest hits is for “tooth chart for children.”  Number 1 is “weimaraners dressed as people”… go figure. So here I am, juking the stats for more visits from total strangers who will hopefully become hopelessly obsessed with…

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Son Fun

Last weekend Jacob and I were learning and practicing the concept of rhyming.  Bee, Tree.  Log, Frog.  He’s been quite the fan of repeating, “Yummy in my tummy!” ten gazillion times— one of those catch phrases he brought home from school. So, I ask him, “What rhymes with Jake?” Without…

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