Scene: lively banter at the dinner table as we all encourage Zac to say ‘more’ in sign language
Milo: “He did it! He said ‘more’!”
( Everyone cheers… )
Milo: “Mom how do you say ‘done’ in sign language?”
( Rachel does a gesture with her hands )
Milo: “Mom, how do you say ‘slavery’ in sign language?”
( Parents crack up )
Zac has hit the 6-month mark! Here are his stats:
18 lb 10 oz (weight)
27.5 in (length)
45.0 cm (head circumference)
Zac tells us his name (while in early training for the 2028 Olympics)
Blizzard Nemo brought an exciting amount of snow. Here’s the view out our front door.
somebody else’s problem
Milo’s sweet wipeout
The other day Rachel mentioned that we should get an adult movie. … After a brief moment of titillation I realized that she probably meant we should get a movie that didn’t involve animated talking dogs.
Overheard last night:
Milo! Stop peeing through the slinky!!!
Dance party after violin class with Miss Ariel
In celebration of Obama’s 2nd term here’s a funny video from 4 years ago.
After chronically knocking over water glasses for years, and acutely knocking them over for several days in a row, this 41 year old women finally broke down and bought herself a sippy cup…and a wave of relief passed through the household knowing that our iphones and ipods and laptops and books and papers would finally, finally be safe.
Reading By the Shores of Silver Lake with Milo last night and we came to a chapter called “Horse Thieves”. We started talking about what kind of people might become horse thieves and what they might look like. I asked Milo if he thought he’d know a horse thief when he saw one and he said he would. When I asked him how he’d know, he thought about it for a second and replied, “it would be written on the back of their shirts”.
That was worth a good chuckle. If only life could be so nicely organized that we all wore uniforms saying what we were…
Dad, isn’t today a good day to play chess and drink some beers?
Milo had his 1st dentist visit last week and got his teeth cleaned. Everything looked good – healthy teeth, good spacing…
Things were going well when part way into the cleaning Milo starts making this strange and somewhat guttural sound. The hygienist, slightly alarmed, stopped what she was doing and asked him if everything was alright and if something hurt.
Milo replied, “I’m just pretending to be a scorpion.”
And so I ask you, faithful audience, what animal or creature do you pretend to be when you get your teeth cleaned?
