Dear Zoey,
You turned 4 years old today. Okay, that’s not true at all. You turned 4 years old 10 days ago, and this post is late like most things we do these days. But you like to pretend that every day is your birthday, so I know you won’t mind. (Make that 18 days. Blogging [...]
“Daddy? Please can you make me some mackincheese, please? With just cheese.”
“Instead of what?”
“Instead of mackin.”
What would you do?
A quick search of our cupboard and the food shelves downstairs revealed that we’re out of the Annie’s organic Mac ‘n’ Cheese, and while we do have an old stash of the regular blue box stuff, [...]
Murphee, imagining a squirrel parade in the fog: “Woof woof! Woof! Woof woof woof!”
Zoey, coming out of her room in her jammies: “Hey! That’s too much noise! I cannot be-yeeve it!”
“Did you hear that Seven of Nine is going to have a baby?”
“Is it a Borg?”
“They haven’t found out yet.”
“If you can stop talking for three minutes I’ll give you a treat.”
“What kind of treat?”
Zoey, pretending to take a bite from a plastic snail bath toy: “Mmm! Tastes like chicken!”
Those words have now for the first time been spoken by our 3.5 year old, not 4 minutes after we left our house.
Daddy said “Not yet”.
Zoey said “Okay, if you say so.”
Yes, we were going to Greenlake where there is the wading pool. Actually, we were going to Greenlake for my brass quintet [...]
“Oh, I love a heart sandwich! I can’t wait to get messy-faced.”
(Thanks for the cookie cutters, Grandma Evelyn!)
"I can make everybody yots and yots of presents, so they can be so, so happy, and we can have the best pwetend party after all!"
"Grandma, be careful not to touch Baby Keegan’s head, because that will wake him up. And don’t poke him."
