This morning Athena picked up a stuffed puppy, held it to her chest, and signed, "nurse ( Read more... )

Here's a funny story. When I was pregnant with Athena, Cayenne was 3-3.5 . He was curious as to how a baby got inside me, so we did the enlightened thing and told him the cold hard facts. I used lots of picture books designed just for this purpose, he asked lots of questions about eggs and chickens, uteruses (uteri?) and penises (peni?). He ( Read more... )

I am doing this all wrong. It should have made me laugh inside when ( Read more... )

I think Athena thinks she's a dog. She barks a lot, and has the body ( Read more... )

I did it! I monkeyed around wiuth my kodak software until I got a photo resized to under 40KB.
I'm so proud.

Two things, I keep trying to add a photo, but the photo software I have on the laptop won't resize to under 40k. The other thing, I want more peppermint iced tea, but am too tried to make it, there is some left over in Athena's sippy cup. I already drank what was in Cayenne's. How desperate am I ( Read more... )

Why is it as stressful to get two kids, fully dressed (one with teeth brushed, the other with a clean diaper, both feed and watered), into the car to drive 5 mintues to Kindergym. It's supposed to be fun, that's whywe go, but I'm so stressed getting there (it's almost the same stress ( Read more... )

Well, he used the word "asshole" today, in the driveway, loudly. He was relating some story to Daddy and I was only half listening while doing my thing and I caught, "He was really being an asshole, Daddy."

hmmmmmm.

I think I pick all movies from here on out.

We did manage not to laugh, though.

So, we watched the Village of the Damned a few nights ago. Spooky movie. I like the old horror flicks ( Read more... )

In my own strange way, I am Earth Mama. With each child, there has been one thing I obsessed on. WIth my first I was admant that nary a drop of Evil Nestle (nor even Horizon Organic) formula enter his pristine little gut. With my second, I cringe when non cloth touches her tush (though I am not such a masochist as to insist on cloth on our 2 ( Read more... )