Jake Joke
Tonight at the dinner table, Jakey told me his very first joke: Mama, what do cats say when they get hurt? Meeeoooooouch. It was hilarious. Guess you had to be there.
Tonight at the dinner table, Jakey told me his very first joke: Mama, what do cats say when they get hurt? Meeeoooooouch. It was hilarious. Guess you had to be there.
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…
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…
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…
Last Friday I received the following video from Miss Dulce at lunchtime: http://youtu.be/wed_o_xb6JQ
“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…
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…