We had a great day in the potty training department yesterday. No, not all of everything went into the potty, but Edward was able to tell me each time he needed a diaper change, and even when he might have been about to need a diaper change. This is an important step, but even more […]
Category Archives: Edward
Shut Up, Grammy!
While I was away in New York auditioning last week, my two-year-old son Edward was staying with Toy Grammy. He likes to go to Toy Grammy’s house, generally because it contains lots of toys. I often drop him off right at the train table, and pick him up in the same spot. Sometimes I wonder […]
A Visit to the Neurologist
Two weeks ago, as many of you know, we started a very scary couple of days here with regards to my daughter’s epilepsy. Ruby, who is five years old, had three very long seizures within a four and a half day period, sending us to the emergency room and freaking us completely out. Since then, […]
A Strict Candy Diet
When I was growing up, I viewed candy as a necessity. There must always be candy! So, being a little OCD anyway, I rationed my candy very carefully. Each holiday provided me with just enough candy to last through till the next one. It all started on Halloween of course (The Motherlode!), which gave me […]
Ironic “Weird Al”-Related Injuries
If you are looking for a good starter song for trying to indoctrinate your young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic (and come on, who isn’t trying to indoctrinate young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic), then you can’t do much better than his cover version of “George of the Jungle,” […]
Home Invasion: Trick or Treating With My Two-Year-Old
Edward was very excited to Trick-or-Treat this year. It was all that he talked about for the entire day yesterday, and, being two, it was probably the first year that he actually slightly understood was it was all about. And I do mean slightly. It was very clear that what he understood about the tradition […]
New Heights of Naughtiness and Destruction
The first thing that my two-year-old son Edward did yesterday was to make a decision. There’s no way he could have been so naughty and so destructive just by chance. No, he had to have been working hard at it intentionally. As soon as his sister left for school he immediately went upstairs into her […]
Enforced Sleep Supervision
To begin with, I would like to thank all of my helpful readers who sent in suggestions after yesterday’s post on how to get my two-year-old son to stay in his bed and go to sleep. I tried many of them, and finally arrived at my own solution. Enforced sleep supervision.The first advice that I […]
Good Cop/Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop
So this bedtime thing is just not working out. My two-year-old just will not go to bed, no matter what we try. First we put his sister up in a loft bed, so that he would not be distracted by the temptation to jump on her all night. Then, when he got jealous of her […]
Things I Never Thought I’d Say
I said every one of these things yesterday. For real. “Stop throwing onions at the cat!” “If you brush your teeth one more time, you’re getting a time-out!”* “Who put my keys in the refrigerator?”** “Ow! You just Gangnam Styled me in the shin!”** “Come back, this is not a cat alert!”*** “Why is there […]