Conversation with Wm, after he came home from a preschool field trip to a trout farm:
Did you go fishing?
Yeah!
And did you catch a fish? Did you use a fishing pole (*casting line gesture*) and catch a fish?
Yeah! And I caught it in the net!
And then did you put it back?No, I put it in the bucket! And then it was DANCING ( Read more... )

We all had 'em. So far 40's OK except for getting run into - I miss the Prius. Can't get them now, so I've got a Corolla. It's blue!
( powers of two birthday boys )

OK, now that I can think about something other than effluvia... William had his 18 month appointment on Friday ( Read more... )

There was a second round of puking around noon, but he's been mostly OK with a long nap, a couple of crackers and a whole lot of nursing since then. He does feel a mite feverish, but we have his 18 mo. checkup tomorrow, so if it hasn't passed, we'll be seeing a doctor anyhow ( Read more... )

What better way is there to start the day than to have a small person puke all over one?

Oh, wait, I can think of lots of better ways.

saint_buddha and kathrynt, it appears to have been a one-big-blurp event, with no fever, and now that he's done, he feels Just! Great! Let's! Play! so I hope it's not something your smalls are going to get ( Read more... )

First, a great Pip story. Someone taught him the letter names of the keys on the piano. So on Christmas I played a couple of notes (all white keys) and asked him what note they were, and he identified them all correctly. Then I played a G-sharp/A-flat and asked him what that was. He said "aaaa..." and kind of trailed off, thought for a bit, and ( Read more... )

12 month doc visit today. Wm comes in at 29.25" tall (hanging out at the 25th percentile), half an ounce shy of 19 pounds (dropping down to the 5th percentile), with an 18.75" noggin. He's still a wee bit anemic, though his iron levels were better than 3 months ago. He demonstrated his bizarre scooting method of getting around, and stood up a bunch ( Read more... )

frequently:
cat (ca, ta, cat)
cookie (guh-ki)
mama
dada
down (dow)
sit down (sih dow)
kiss (kish, kiff, kuh)

less common:
car (cah)
boobie (buhbeh, boobeh)
up (uh)

new:
zebra (zee-buh)
tiger (tuh-guh)
done (duh)
spoon (suh-poo)
Today in the yarn shop we got him to say something that approximated "Koigu." That's my boy.

We were waiting somewhere, with me sitting with Wm on my lap while standing next to me was a man with a little boy about age 4. The guy was telling the kid that babies say RAAAR and that he'd better watch out, because he'd get his arm! And at first the kid was saying "no, daddy, babies don't say that" and the dad said "no, really, any minute now!" ( Read more... )

Attn. Seattle foodies: Serious pie. has some darned good pizza-like food. And roasted beets with a bit of cheese, some julienned mint and not a whole lot else are darned yummy. And if they offer someting with the housemade salami, order it. Wm and I lunched with my mom and and her wee girlie. Wm was SO EXCITED by little L. He was just reaching and ( Read more... )