cue: New Soul by Yael Naïm At the mall, walking by the Apple store, spying a new MacBook Air in the window. Me: Hey Henry, look at that! You see that? 7-year-old Henry: What? The computer? Me: Yeah! Isn’t that amazing? Henry: It looks just like yours Me: Huh? No, I mean – it’s a [...]
Henry and Jango It’s so cute to watch my boy hold his kittenso tenderly. Hey – you’ve been on the ground for 3 hours after flying home from 10 days in China. Wouldn’t this be a great time to adopt a kitten?! Our babysitter’s cat had kittens on Father’s Day. Henry spent so much time [...]
Henry (while jumping around on my bed): Hey Mom, what kind of bed is this again? Is this a King bed? Or is it a Queen bed? Me: It’s a King bed. Henry: And what kind of bed do I have again? It’s a Prince, right?
Henry: Daddy, I need some goodnight kisses Daddy: But I just gave you a bunch of goodnight kisses Henry: Yes, but I didn’t feel any water
This is his first lost tooth. He’s very proud – and very brave. He and Dave worked on it with dental floss, and then Henry requested the pliers! A couple tugs, and out it came. They grow so fast – I can still remember when he got these teeth in the first place! The nice [...]
It’s an all-boy house here. We had some friends and their one-year-old daughter over for dinner. We are all light-sabers and wrestling, hi-yah! and blasters. She was a little intimidated, but then jumped right in. Later, when Henry and I were reading for bed, he was sounding out words. We got to “bad” and he [...]
Henry’s friend Max: I know who Darth Vader is! Henry and Max in unison: It’s Anakin! Henry: So, I wonder – why did Anakin want to become Darth Vader? Max: Oh – I know! I know! They kept calling him “Annie” all the time and it made him really mad so he turned into Darth [...]
Tonight, my son Henry said, “We should name the vacuum cleaner “Suck”. Because, y’know, it sucks things up. Isn’t that a good idea Mommy? Don’t you think that would be a great name?” He turns to the vacuum “Hey, Suck! How’s it going? Do you like your new name?”