Riley usually isn't awake when Theo is getting ready for school. Her school starts later. But this morning, all schools started an hour later (some kind of educator improvement hour aka Screwing Up Everyone's Day), so they were both awake AT THE SAME TIME. Sometimes it's a little challenging to juggle both of their demands in the morning, so I ( Read more... )

hi bye (short) ... March 2006
Originally uploaded by meilaanAhhh. What happened to this little munchkin?

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Every meeting is our last. I swear it each time. This time, I really swear. Often and loudly ( Read more... )

Theo is the king of stretching out the time between him climbing into bed at night and me saying the final goodnight. He used to sneak out of his room 10-12 times a night when he was a toddler, so this is nothing compared to how it used to be ( Read more... )

The downside to having a (temporarily) gimpy husband is that I can't be a slugabed on school mornings when he used to get our son up and dressed for the 7am bus. The upside is that now I get to pick out Theo's clothes, which is fun because he actually puts them on without fighting me, unlike the other child ( Read more... )

Turns out, a kindergarten level Girl Scout is called a Daisy. I don't think they had these when I was little. Or else I was just blissfully unaware of them, along with things like weather, taxes, and a decelerating metabolism ( Read more... )

The tooth fairy who services our house is not the type to sneak around after the kids are asleep. Instead, she makes the swap during the final good night hug. Pretty tricky, right? Of course, there's the risk that the kid will discover the exchange has occurred too quickly. Or that the money will get lost before morning. But we all have our ( Read more... )

Every night Riley and I read books, and then I turn on her music player when I leave ( Read more... )