My first son is resting across my lap as I type this. He no longer naps, except in the most exceptional circumstances, but he still needs quiet resting time while his little brother sleeps. He is restlessly beating one foot against the couch at an amazing pace, unconsciously, just like my mother has always done. He stares across the room at the ( Read more... )

Hayden, overheard just now, digging in his toy bins: "Oh, for cod's sake ( Read more... )

hayden has a set of cups with animals on them - a frog, a ladybug, a cat, and - his favorite - a sheep (or "lambie," as they call the little puppet at school that excuses them from the snack table when they've cleaned up their place ( Read more... )

Hayden pulled up his shirt and said, "I have milk, too ( Read more... )

A week's worth of Haydenisms - the ones I remember, anyway. I guess I really need to rein in the colloquialisms ( Read more... )

Tonight Harrison was being clingy while I was trying to make dinner. I had to scoop him up while I was filling the stockpot with water. With him on one hip, I tried moving the HUGE, HEAVY stockpot to the stove with my free hand. Of course, I almost made it but then sloshed some on the floor at the last second ( Read more... )

I told him that today was very special - that he was going to watch a movie while I did some work. That's a pretty rare treat for him, so you'd think it would have been a great motivator. I told him that as soon as he cleaned up his train tracks, I would put on the "movie" (a tv episode on OnDemand ( Read more... )

Hayden: Mommy, while Harrison and I play and have a snack, can you go take a shower, please ( Read more... )

I looked out the window and said, "Wow. Look at that rain."

Hayden came up behind me and, with a shocked and devastated expression, said, "OH NO!!! It watered our house!"

A minute ago, he was singing, "Ring around the Jose, pocket full of po-zay."

I said, "Who's Jose?"

"The other guy."

o_O

ok.

"You'll be older enough when you get big, Harrison."

"I'm going to grow a pillow forest over... here."

"Trains are like babies, except they go faster, and they don't poop."