If there’s one thing that your children will quickly take from you, it is your ego. They are straight shooters who tell it like it is, and even if they don’t always understand what they are saying, you can be sure that when you have a conversation with a child, it will be stripped of […]
Category Archives: Edward
First Night in a Big Boy Bed
It had to happen eventually. As much as we wanted to contain our two-year-old in a crib forever, we knew the time would come when we would have to unleash him on the world, sleeping unrestrained in a big boy bed. Since I have been having back problems, and lifting him in and out of […]
Uncle Bear
I don’t know exactly at what point Ruby’s favorite toy became her teddy bear, but once it happened there was no looking back. A gift from her aunt and uncle at her baptism, the bear slowly but surely moved up the ranks to emerge as the number one toy in Ruby’s life. When she got […]
They Grow Up Too Fast
Every parent knows that their child is growing up too fast; this is just a fact of life. I am never surprised to encounter my own feelings of loss when one of my children moves on to a new phase in life or outgrows something that I still enjoy. What did surprise me was that […]
Passport Pictures of Children
It is not easy to get a good passport picture of a small child. I knew this in advance because my sister-in-law recently had passport photos taken of her 2 year and 2 month old children, and she told me tales of trying to hold the baby’s head up and needing many tries to get […]
Knowledge of Pain
For a long time, we were a little worried about Edward. He seemed to like to bash his head into things more than he should, and he was always pegging heavy objects at people’s faces or bashing family members with his head. But we had a breakthrough recently, and I can now take comfort in […]
How You Know When Your Kids Look Like You
I was walking on a path through a city park the other day when I saw a jogger coming towards me. We made eye contact and, although she looked somewhat familiar, we kept on going past each other. Edward was puttering along just behind me, going at a normal two-year-old pace, and as she passed […]
Disaster in Diapers
Let me give you some backstory before I dive right into this tale. The first thing you should probably know is that we have been trying to potty train Edward in an extremely unsuccessful manner, but the important thing to know is that he has been wearing pull-ups instead of diapers. The only problem is […]
Who You May and May Not Marry
Last week I had to tell my daughter that she was not legally allowed to marry the person of her choice, the person that she loved more than anyone else, because society would not permit it. You see, my 5-year-old daughter Ruby wanted to marry her 2-year-old brother Edward. Not now, obviously. She was quite […]
Words Edward Learned This Week
On Monday, Edward’s speech pathologist came over and explained to me the ways in which I should be communicating with Edward in order to help him get on pace with his speech development. Due to Edward’s crazy number of ear infections, we believe that he had trouble hearing for his first year+ of life and […]