Posted in July 2008 …

"I Drive!!" (2 Going on 16)

Roan’s latest obsession is pretending to drive the Subaru. He LOVES putting music CDs in and out of the stereo, pressing all the buttons, and looking in the mirrors. When he’s in his car seat (and painfully not in control), he shouts out requests, referring to CDs by name. Here is a typical conversation with … Continue reading →

Kitchen #2: Buyer Beware

After spending hours and months surfing catalogs and the Web looking for a kitchen that wasn’t plastic and a company that hadn’t been caught red handed in lead paint, I thought I had finally found the most adorable, most affordable, most likely to be safe, most stylish little play kitchen on the market. After 3 … Continue reading →

The Things You Do

This is Casey talking on the “phone” (a puzzle piece in the shape of a giraffe). This is Casey wearing a lego box on his head while sipping coffee (upon Roan’s insistance).

I hang-a da branch!

This is Italian-mafia / rasta-Roan speech for, “I want to go hang from that branch” (btw, a ritual, if unsatisfied, leads to shrieking, crying, protest, and mayhem on route between the apartment and the car). He is trying to incorporate articles of speech into his Tarzan English, such as “the.” He is also trying out … Continue reading →

Ghetto Jammies

Well, we think the photo speaks for itself. This is what you call homemade summer jammies recycled from springtime jammies – complete (or incomplete we should say) with cut-off sleeves, and one cut-off leg (the zipper runs down the left leg, so we could only cut off the foot on that side). You know George … Continue reading →