Category: koala update
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On rocks, Arabs, talking it out, conflict, and more rocks.
This, an hour after listening to the recent This American Life podcast on the way home from work; the one titled, #570: The Night in Question, the one about the Rabin assassination and associated conspiracy theories. “Listen, I want to talk to you about some stuff. Do your friends talk about Arabs in school?” “[My…
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Nettles update: nineteen months
A couple months in maon daycare, and you’re becoming a tiny version of a kid. Making ‘friends’ (well, maybe ‘petting’ potential friends/younger babies in your vicinity? Whether they like it or not?). Adding new words to your vocabulary (as well as using a million words for the same thing, like tzetzi and geegee for pacifier?…
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Who’s on first?!
“it’s very exciting! it means they won all the games they had to win so they get to the World Series.” “what’s world series?” “when they play the last seven games against the other team and the team that wins the most, which is four, wins the whole thing.” “why seven?” “I dunno. it’s best…
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Bebe update: four and a half years
Six months and you seem way more than four and a half. well, most of the time. On our trip in Australia, you faced some fears head on and opened yourself to learning more. For example, after a few years of being freaked out by the beach, and a summer of going (on two different…
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Nettles update: eighteen months.
“Do.” “Doy.” “Doos.” “Douche.” Your vocabulary is brought to you by the letter D. It’s also nearly correct – ‘poo’, ‘bird’, ‘shoes’, and really on target with that last one, since you meant ‘wash’ and actually kinda said it in French. Or you’re cussing the shower, which wouldn’t surprise me either. Also nice try with…
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Ballad of the backpack begins.
It’s the night before first grade starts. I guess I’ve lived through multiple (somewhere around 30+) of these nights, but this one is different. By my front door there’s a Spiderman backpack filled with lined notebooks… clear plastic book covers… pencils… Everything is still innocent. Everything is still fresh-faced and calm. Bracing for the change. And…
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Nettles update: seventeen months
We’re traveling and you’re traveling, mostly upright, mostly walking, mostly like a drunk. But you’re fierce and you’re just about there. And you’ve discovered a love of climbing in giant teeth. And you’ll eat your pizza how you damn well choose. And you’ll scare away the animals you damn well choose.
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Nettles update: sixteen months
SHE’S WALKING…!!! And she’s everywhere. And she’s climbing onto the kitchen table to make it rain napkins and wipes. And she’s climbing backwards down the stairs if she can outpace me. Which – she can. And she’s force-feeding baby dolls like the CIA is amateur hour. And she’s yelling. YELLING ALL THE TIME: “AHHHHHH. MOTHER…
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Nettles update: fifteen months
She will cut you. But she’ll also massage you. But really she was just scheming and will probably actually cut you. And then she’ll laugh about it as she refuses to let you feed her. And that’s Nettles this month.
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Nettles update: fourteen months
Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of… …in your weird outdated genderized dreams. This little girl is made of naughty grins, cunning eyes, plans to hatch, to get a rise. A hand over here, a hand over there, another fistful of big sister’s hair. You want to be big,…
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Best 6th birthday party idea ever: Go take a hike!
We brought you superhero explorers… we brought you dinosaur adventures… this year, it was a birthday party on a hike. And this was by far the easiest and best and most all-around enjoyable birthday party that we’ve done so far. We are fortunate to live within a nature area, and in our town itself, right…
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Koala update: six years
Six years – six years a force in my life, six years a mom. Six years old, Koala. Six means: you are going to first grade in four months you are asking a lot of questions but answering a lot of mine this is the last Koala Update I write before you will begin to know…