Sam has become obsessed with Patty Cake. Ob. Sessed.
Initially he would just start his rolling arm motion when I would begin the song. Now he doesn’t need me to initiate the Patty Cake. He has been walking around the house “rollin’ it” for days. It’s cute, it is. But see, when [...]

We’ve had more words around here lately. But there has yet to be a repeat of “sho” or “cah.” In fact, Sam seems to only be interested in saying his words for us a few times in the moment and then never coming back to them…ever. It makes us wonder if he [...]

As it turned out the Halloween parade was the perfect amount of festivity for us. Sam had fun playing with his friends in his lame costume. He actually did keep the belt on the whole time, but I would still say he was the least costumed of all the kids. He had [...]

Here’s a little quiz for your Thursday enjoyment. See if you can answer the following.
1) Remember I mentioned I was going to be writing a book? Well I’ve been doing some planning for it, outlining plot and such, and also choosing character names. After long, long consideration I decided on the two [...]

Well, I think I scarred my son. Ever since the incident with the train table last week I have been walking around the house and finding scenes like this:

And this:

Clearly this boy has been wronged, be it by me, by 4 year olds who don’t like sharing, or by their negligent parents, the boy [...]

I have a hard time admitting this, but I have learned something about myself over the course of the last few months. I tend to get incredibly indignant about the way other people parent their children when it comes to protecting Sam. When I take him out to a playground, a store, a [...]

At long last…long, long last…my child is officially verbal. For the past few weeks Sam has been imitating our speech more and especially our intonation. Every so often we’d hear a vowel or consonant that was very similar to what we’d just said. As usual though it was never certain when he [...]