In Mother Words

“Have you ever seen baby angel wings?” – My daughter, asking us if we’ve ever seen the wings that babies have when they come in to Mommy’s tummy.
“How do you put make up on your mind?”
“15 minutes is a long time.” “4 hours… that’s not long.” Gotta love the complete lack of a time sense.
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We were driving to visit relatives, and the sky was fairly smoggy. My 2 year old son looked at the sun, and said ‘MOON!’ which my daughter immediately corrected: ‘It’s the SUN!’
This debate went on for several minutes. By the end of it I had my son calling his sister ‘Kate’ (not her name or [...]

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I took my son to the playground the other day. He was having a grand old time playing and watching people walk by with their dogs. He’s only minimally verbal at 2-1/2 years of age, so I was very surprised to hear him say:
“Want dog”
“Two”
“Big”
“Me walk!”
I really didn’t think the promise to care for a [...]

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It’s just so cute sometimes watching the neighbor’s great-grandson whenever he sees my daughter. He is so completely besotted by her.
But one of the first times they played together ended quite memorably. At a year apart in age (he was 5, she was 4 at the time), they had very different play styles and he [...]

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This is a site I’ve been contemplating starting for a little while now. It just seemed like a fun idea, given how crazy children can make you. I’ll start things off with a story that happened a short time ago today, that reminded me how much I needed to actually get this site going.
I’m watching [...]

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