Fragments of life with the wee ones
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slipjig31) Despite my post at the time, Halloween did, in fact, happen. (It had better damned well have happened, or the yard apes would have had my skull on a pike.) Abbey was dressed adorably in a ballerina kitten costume, proof positive that you can get anything through mail order. Nik, equally adorable, went as a lion, at least until the outfit got too hot for him and he ditched it, leaving us parents to explain to the curious that he was dressed as a skinned lion.
2) Aside from the usual Bagful o' Sugar extortion run, both kids won prizes for their costumes at the annual Halloween Parade at the high school. This is a good thing. Both of them losing? That'd have been a bad thing. One of them winning, and the other not? That'd have been a very, very, very bad thing.
3) When you become a parent, your definition of the word "luxury" shifts pretty dramatically. This morning, both children slept until 8 a.m. *contented sigh*
4) So we were all hanging out in the living room, and all of a sudden I hear Abbey singing under her breath: "He put the lime in the coconut and drank it all up..." Pardon mon Franglais, but who in the hell is my daughter learning Harry Nilsson songs from?
5) I often try to tell non-parents about the fringe benefits of parenthood, and I invariably fail. But this, I think, sums it up pretty nicely:
Abbey: Daddy, can you make me a perfect paper swan?
Me: Well, I don't know about perfect. I'm not a perfect person.
Abbey: [laughs] Yes, you are.
Ohhhh... *hugs self* I needed that.
2) Aside from the usual Bagful o' Sugar extortion run, both kids won prizes for their costumes at the annual Halloween Parade at the high school. This is a good thing. Both of them losing? That'd have been a bad thing. One of them winning, and the other not? That'd have been a very, very, very bad thing.
3) When you become a parent, your definition of the word "luxury" shifts pretty dramatically. This morning, both children slept until 8 a.m. *contented sigh*
4) So we were all hanging out in the living room, and all of a sudden I hear Abbey singing under her breath: "He put the lime in the coconut and drank it all up..." Pardon mon Franglais, but who in the hell is my daughter learning Harry Nilsson songs from?
5) I often try to tell non-parents about the fringe benefits of parenthood, and I invariably fail. But this, I think, sums it up pretty nicely:
Abbey: Daddy, can you make me a perfect paper swan?
Me: Well, I don't know about perfect. I'm not a perfect person.
Abbey: [laughs] Yes, you are.
Ohhhh... *hugs self* I needed that.
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Date: 2003-11-02 11:47 am (UTC)Please, please, PLEASE tell me that you (my musical GURU - the ONE SOURCE for all that is tuneful)... you HAVE heard of the Muppet version of "Lime in the Coconut"... Right?
If not, I have the mp3 and I'd be glad to file transfer it to you. :-)
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Date: 2003-11-02 06:05 pm (UTC)In a very perverse way, I'm reminded of when a lovely little girl I know (she's seven now) listened to my pitiful whistling, and said 'I can whistle better than you, and I'm five'. She can, of course. I felt I had to point out that there were many other things I could do that she couldn't, though!
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