"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
0 – the number of potty-training books I read before beginning this age-old parenting venture 1 – the number of children a parent usually trains at a time 2 – the number of children currently in training in our home, also the number of toilet plungers we own (both of which now get a frequent [...]
Posted on July 11th, 2007 by Dove
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E was to be gone all day Saturday, helping his brother build his house. As a special treat for them (and a sanity-saver for me), he bought a new toy for the girls, one that’s been on my wishlist for awhile: Wedgits. They’re kind of like blocks, kind of like Tangoes, kind of like geometry [...]
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by Dove
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My daughters, unbidden, just cleaned up the entire living room and playroom and asked me to vacuum. All toys were in the toybox, all books on the bookshelf, all clothes in the laundry basket, all shoes on the shelf, all cushions on the couch. I was in awe, and told them so. They glowed with [...]
Posted on July 5th, 2007 by Dove
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Lately I have been struck by how loving my daughters are. When Bug bumped her head and was crying, Lou gasped and ran to her, gave her a sweet hug and kiss, and held her, saying, “My poor Bug, you have an owie? You hurt? It’s okay, I’ll kiss it.” And Bug, for her part, [...]
Posted on July 3rd, 2007 by Dove
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Lou: “Mommy, I have BIG feets like Daddy and like you!”
Posted on July 1st, 2007 by Dove
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“Mommy, I’m soooooooo-per!“ Everything Lou does is better. If she runs to me, it’s, “Mommy, I’m faster!” If she lifts a bucket of toys, “I’m stronger!” When standing on a chair, “I’m so taller!” Faster, stronger, and taller THAN what, I don’t know. Than yesterday? Than her sister? It doesn’t seem to matter, for her [...]
Posted on April 2nd, 2007 by Dove
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“Mommy, I’m a pickle!” “You’re a pickle??” “No, a bick-gull!” “A what???” “I’m a BIG! GIRL!” Oh. “Yes, you are Sweetheart!”
Posted on March 29th, 2007 by Dove
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Lou enters the room with a turkey baster tucked into her armpit. I have to inquire. “I’n takin’ my tentaper.” “Oh, are you sick?” “Yeah, feel my head, I have a beever.” Can you tell we’ve been sick? What with all the beevers, tentaper-taking, fussy-clingy-ness, oh, and the lymph node the size of a cantaloupe [...]
Posted on March 9th, 2007 by Dove
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While cooking with my two- and three-year-old daughters the other day, one of them requested to hold the huge chef’s-knife-of-DOOM. (E is a cutlery snob and we registered for and received a very nice set of knives for our wedding.) (He wishes me to include here that he is, after all, the Paternal Ninja, and [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2007 by Dove
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Note to mamas of littles: Make friends with an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). Or a good nurse. Or, at the very least, someone with some kind of medical training. I actually can’t take credit for the friendship, we’ve been friends with Andy since he was in high school, and he’s only recently become an EMT. [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2007 by Dove
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