I feel as if I’ve written this post before. OH because I HAVE, just with a different child. This afternoon I was on the phone with a friend talking about kids, photography, football, breast cancer… you know, the normal stuff when I hear: “THWACKTHUDCRASH” followed by the scream. If you’re really lucky, you’ll never hear…
A conversation between the 3 year old Monkey and Me. Monkey: “Mom, why do you tell me No so much?” Me: “Because I care about you” (short easy mom answer) Without missing a beat…. Monkey: ” You sure care about me a lot”
Yesterday I put some delicious pineapple chicken on the grill, closed the lid and went inside. Five minutes later, I walked outside to billowing smoke and flames shooting from the grill. I yelled and wrenched the dials to off and while I’m pulling the chicken off the grill (thank goodness I left the tongs outside!) …
The blueprints are only in his head. He is the one with the vision. Building his worlds, it’s the only time that he’s still. He builds them up and tears them down. Going higher, wider, taller, farther… There are no boundaries, no limits. Just like his future. He is the architect of that, as well.
or interpretation is everything.. Thanks to Chick-Fil-A, the kids got two Between The Lions CD’s the other day. They begged me to put them on in the car, so I did. As soon as the theme song started, Princess started singing and Monkey, not knowing the words, but no less enthusiastic started bopping along in…
The Scene: Saturday Morning (Today) 7:30 AM. I had just finished my workout and sat down on the couch to check email and twitter. Monkey comes stumbling out of his room with that sleepy tousled hair and rosy cheeks that comes from the deep, deep sleep of a contented child. He crawls up on the…
There are moments in life that you hope you are still enough to notice. Moments that can pass you by in the blink of an eye, moments that if you are too busy looking towards tomorrow… you’ll miss. This is one of those moments. We were so busy cleaning out our garage, readying for our…
Monkey is ready.
The Monkey Will Play He has to do something while she’s away at kindergarten every day, doesn’t he?