It seems odd how my life is going to change so much in 7 weeks. What’s even more odd is that I already have a kid, I’ve done the baby thing and all that, so it’s not like I don’t have any experience. But just as Leif and I couldn’t imagine Rowan until she got [...]
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Life Changes
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Rowan on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Parent-Teacher Conference
Posted in NaBloPoMo, Rowan on November 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today was our first parent-teacher conference. Rowan seems to be doing pretty well in school. She can count up to 87 (she skips 88 and then continues onto 100) and she knows a few words. She draws a lot and adds a lot of detail to her drawings. Socially, she seems to do fine in [...]
Goodbye Yo-grit
Posted in Rowan on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the sad things about watching children grow up is watching the cute things they say disappear. The other day Rowan surprised me by asking for yogurt. She had never pronounced it correctly, and I thought her calling it yo-grit was unbearably cute so I left it. Alas, preschool taught her how to say [...]
Out of the mouths of babes
Posted in Rowan on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Leif’s playing some feudal Japan samurai game. One of two characters you can play is big burly monk, Benkei. He got a new weapon: Me: “Wow, what is that thing? It looks like a rocket launcher.” Rowan: “No, it looks like a wee-wee.” Me: “A what?” Rowan: “I mean, a pee-pee.” Yes, I guess it [...]
Strawberries
Posted in Rowan on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No soup tonight. Instead, Rowan and I had a bunch of shrimp and then a bunch of strawberries. As in, I ate a pound and she ate a pound. Good thing they were 2 for $4 at Woodman’s, looks like I’ll be going back to pick up more. Mmm. . . strawberries. Seriously, as long [...]
Green Salad Soup
Posted in Rowan on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rowan has a thing for soup. She likes to eat it, and she likes to make it. But if she’s making it, I generally don’t let her eat it. Here was tonight’s recipe, Green Salad Soup: Colored water, blue, green, yellow, with a dash of red, but it’s predominately green Dish soap Crystallized ginger (wasn’t [...]
Wayy too girly for me. . .
Posted in Rowan on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So now that nice weather has finally arrived, I will need to get Rowan some sandals that fit. I was looking through a flyer for Target to check summer shoes. Rowan asked me what I was doing, then said, “I need sandals AND flip-flops AND crocs. I need three pairs of shoes, Mom!” How does [...]
Rowanisms
Posted in Rowan on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Out of the mouths of children: “Poops are the dads and pees are the mom and they go down the toilet to their new home.” (Exposition on bodily functions?) “I need so many tentacles.” (playing with pipe insulation for the basement) And yesterday, while I was at my class, Rowan wanted to read to Dad. [...]
The Big Butt Talk
Posted in Rowan on December 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Ah, parenting. The joys of teaching basic social skills to 3-years olds. Mondays are swimming lessons night. So Rowan and I went and she had a good time. Afterwards we went to the ladies’ locker room to change. There is a lady there who is quite a bit heavier and last week as she was [...]
Time of Testing
Posted in Rowan on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I’ve been feeling stressed out and physically run down and I may have figured out what it is. Maybe I feel stressed out because Rowan has had a tantrum almost every day the past week, usually right when I get home or back from the errand. It’s always completely irrational, bordering on the psychotic. [...]
