I'll continue our story of our weekend in the Bay Area. This one is shorter, I promise.

We woke on Sunday at Blue and Headra's new apartment and enjoyed a relaxing morning. We ate some leftover Indian food from the night before; the kids noshed on the cereal and soy milk we brought with us. (We Wilsons always travel with breakfast!) Then we said ( Read more... )

Dear Asher,

You are now two and a half years old! Somehow, this fact is stunning to me. Where did the last six months go? Well, let’s see …

You have learned to talk! To sing! To fight with your brother!

I gave up trying to write down all of your words several months ago. The floodgates of language opened up and I and my notepad were swept downstream ( Read more... )

For the first time in a long time, I find myself stuck with nothing to do (except housework). I'm sure it's a momentary problem. I'm waiting on a small handful of colleagues and clients to do their things and send them to me, so I can then do my things.

Lucas is away at a birthday party this afternoon.

Asher is asleep.

Damn! I should be reading! But ( Read more... )

Speaking of Voice, which I did a day or so ago, my toddler has found his! The place in Asher's brain that controls music is now ON and he wanders around singing to himself constantly. His repertoire is small, and his lyrics are liberally splashed with baby talk and made-up words. What is interesting is that he intuitively knows that some songs have ( Read more... )

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1. "Where Lucas go?"
2. "Baby need a pluggie!"
3. "Cockleshells!"
4. "Baby hold the milks?"
5. "Whyyyyyy?"
6. "Baby eat some O's and milk?"
7. "I don't know."
8. "My mommy, my daddy, my brother, my toys!"
9. "Daddy took it away!"
10. "Love you, Mama."

It's 9:45 and I am waiting for grandma to arrive to take Asher away for a couple of hours. Lucas is at morning camp. Today is the second day of summer vacation and I have sooooo much work to do and  all kinds of fear that I won't be able to get it all done because my day care is spotty at best. This puts me in a state of anxiety while I'm trying to ( Read more... )

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Asher is presently blowing on Lucas's new harmonica and strummin' his ukulele! It's very cute.