So I guess we've reached the point in our car's life where it just falls apart? In the last 3 weeks we've had to get the mass air flow sensor replaced twice. Today, driving home from the mechanic that just replaced the sensor again, the car sounded weirdly loud. The muffler had detached from... whatever holds mufflers onto cars. Completely ( Read more... )

In a rare parenting win, I may have stumbled on something that seems to work. Lately I've been asking West once he's all tucked in bed if he has any questions. Like, about life or his day or anything. And he's had a lot of questions about evolution and sciencey things, and a couple of questions about why I don't like guns. I wanted to do something ( Read more... )

Watching West learn how to read is amazing. In September he couldn't read anything other than his name. Tonight he read me an entire Elephant & Piggie book, with help on the harder words, but still, he did it. He's kind of obsessed with learning facts about presidents now, and he's super obsessed with Pokemon and knows a lot of their names and ( Read more... )

Sometimes you lose a kid in a grocery store for like 30 seconds. This weekend we were at BJ's getting a ridiculous amount of wholesale goods, and Drew & I went down an aisle thinking West was right next to us. I turned around and West was nowhere to be seen. I found him about 30 seconds later just outside of our aisle looking super scared because ( Read more... )

I just wanted to get this in here more so I don't forget it than anything else. For a while Drew and I have had this joke that our family motto is "Efficiency In All Things!" which we like to say, uh, energetically sometimes. The other day I was out at the museum with West, and West said "our new family motto should be 'Out And About'." So cute! ( Read more... )

It's 9:45 and every present in the house has been unwrapped, including those that required long skype sessions with the grandparents for unwrapping. West was up at 5:30, which isn't that bad because that's exactly when he usually wakes up. This was super successful Christmas season. I pulled off a hail mary gingerbread man cookie baking session ( Read more... )

We had a surprisingly AMAZING time in New York this weekend!

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I have been going to some kickass shows lately. Like, on weekday nights and everything. Not that I can actually handle the lack of sleep, I had to take a half day yesterday to recover from being up too late the night before.

A couple of months ago I saw Idlewild at the Sinclair. They did a tiny tour of the US, just hitting 4 cities, it was the ( Read more... )

Tonight we went to the annual Salem tradition of watching Santa get rescued from the roof of a hotel by firemen on a huge fire truck ladder. As you do. While we were waiting, a girl in West's class walked by, and she yelled to him "I've been dreaming about you" OMG. Kids are hilarious, but send help, because we've also received notice from his ( Read more... )

West is working on his tight 5 comedy routine. We watched Muppets Take Manhattan today, and his joke tonight was: "Why is called Muppets Take Manhattan? It should be called Muppets Leave Manhattan!"

OMG. This kid.

Also, that movie holds up remarkably well, it's amazing! I am so excited to take him to NYC in a few weeks. It will be magical and