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Our nanny’s sister flew in from Nepal to take care of her last week and has convinced her to come back to Nepal to rest. I’m pretty sad about this because it is hard to find people I actually like to take care of my babies. Sylvie is a little bit too young for most […]
We saw WALL E, today. Sylvie’s first movie in a theater. She was so excited her eyes were as large as saucers for the 20 minutes she was awake. As this was Will’s 4th movie, he is now a veteran, and approached the event with ennui. WALL E is a modern fairy tale replete with […]
Thank God it is Friday. Our Nanny has been ill all week and what we imagined would be the calmest and cleanest week we’ve had in 4 years was actually one of the harder, dirtier weeks. I’ve swept up a kazillion dried pastas and peppercorns from our many tea parties this week, and still I’m […]
They are born womanizers. I was wearing a skirt at the grocery store the other day, and Will kept brushing his hand up against my legs and falling on the floor to look up my skirt. I told him to knock it off, eventually tossing him in the cart, where he blurts out, “You wearing […]
my friend Cindy had a great suggestion for how to keep track of your independent child in highly populated areas – tie a balloon to the kid. (I swear this is the last post today.)
I have to admit I am thoroughly enjoying the interest in potty training our Terrible Twos have brought to the house. Yesterday, Sylvie lit up when I asked her if she wanted to use the potty at work. The Self-flushing potty. I had never thought that thing was so exciting! But she certainly found it […]
This is really about Me and micro-Doug, but I can humor myself. As I mentioned earlier, Sylvie’s nanny is ill, so she’s been hanging out with me the past two days. Yesterday she came to the office where she had a great time drawing on the white boards and climbing up and down our step […]
We spent the past weekend in Tahoe at the cabin, and the past two days our Nanny has been very ill leaving me to juggle work and micro-me, so I’m just now getting the chance to record our recent events. Ah, Tahoe. We’ve been watching Deadwood thanks to NetFlix about the North Dakota gold rush […]
Shortly after kids are able to walk and climb and after they’ve acquired just enough language, they hit what we all know as the “terrible twos”. My experience is that this doesn’t happen after the second birthday, and it isn’t exactly terrible. We’re going through it right now with my very independent 19 mos old. […]
Doug and Will get bagels on their way to Carlos’ every Tuesday. This morning, a homeless man walked into the bagel store, up to the counter, took a cup and then left. Will asked Doug, “Why did he just take the cup?” Doug explained that the man was going to use the cup to beg […]