The sun shines brighter when the skies are clearer

Blame summer.
Blame summer and its wonderful weather and great opportunities for fun outside (and away from the computer) for my lack of updates. When it comes to making a choice of sitting outside and playing on the swings with Alex on a warm day and sitting inside in front of the computer….well….it shouldn’t even [...]

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Conversations

In the sandbox this morning:
“Hey Alex, where’s daddy right now?” I asked.
“Working.” he replied.
“Where does he work?”
“Big office.”
“What does he do at the big office, buddy?”
“Makes money.”
I don’t even write down the new words anymore.  There’s just too many of them to keep up with.  He’s repeating everything now. And yes, that includes my “adult [...]

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Word explosion

The past few weeks have been linguistically crazy for Alex. It’s as if his brain suddenly decided to play some catch up.
It started with this list of words, that came within one week:

Just in case you can’t read my writing, that’s “uh-oh, home, bear, big, story, door, ah-ha and bulb.”
Then, this past week, this [...]

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It’s nice to hear

It comes out there?!?!, originally uploaded by wskrz.
I’ve been down this road before, and I’ve been disappointed before, so I’m trying to do everything I can to encourage what I’m hearing.
Yesterday, it was “mumumumumumuMUMUMUMUMUmumum.” Obviously an acknowledgment to our British friends.
Today, it was “mamamamamamaMAMAMAMAMAMAMAmamama” with an occasional, “bababababababa” thrown in.
It’s [...]

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“You must first learn to have a lot of patience to learn to have patience” - Stanislaw J. Lec

Waiting is always hard.
It’s hard for kids. I’m sure you remember waiting for Christmas morning. Or your birthday. Or for the promise of a treat of ice cream or a favorite chocolate bar.
It’s even harder for adults, because our waiting is not always under happy circumstances with the promise of a happy reward [...]

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