Sundown, spring.
A small barefoot girl discovers a watering can in our garage and decides it’s time to help the flowers.
Muddy feet and happy plants ensue.
Lighting Bug’s 2-year-oldness climbed the next rung.
When we read her favorite nursery rhymes she has started inserting comments to negate the point.
So we end up with classics like the:
“There was (not) an old ...
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“Is it gonna be OK?”
We watched a particularly exciting kids’ movie last night, with much “danger” to our heroes. Lightning Bug is not used to such fare and curled in between Carol and me, her body tense, genuinely scared, asking “Is it gonna be OK?”
And I flashed back to when I was about her age, watching the Disney animated “Robin Hood” with my mother – her first viewing, my second. In the climax heroic Robin disappears into ...
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Why, hello again, toddler stomach bug!
I’d forgotten this particular dance.
Gone through seven sets of clothing so far.
Hoping the first batch of pajamas get out of the dryer in time for the next round….
I’m sure some spent Valentine’s night being romanced, or remembering romance, or ...
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Lightning Bug has learned to play Hide And Seek, which is delightful.
Although her strategy as Seeker seems to be to tell you to hide, then surreptitiously peek through her fingers to see where you hide, and then proceed to count to ten and ...
A gift I didn’t know I needed:
I had a dream that Carol and I and the baby (Lightning Bug) were walking to our car in a grocery store parking lot at night. We saw a figure across the lot under a streetlight. ...
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Well, we waited ’til the tail end of winter, but Lightning Bug finally had her first sledding adventure.
She was nervous and excited about it – her only references were books where characters loved sledding, but the idea of hurtling out of control ...
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Lightning Bug and I are looking at lovely delicate Christmas balls that my cousin gave us. Each ball opens up to reveal a scene that moves as music plays, like a music box.
The first is a train moving through the ...
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November 24, 2022
If you’d told me a couple of years ago I’d be spending Thanksgiving morning in my kitchen cutting up bananas for a 19-month-old who insists on dancing to the Bollywood song “Zoobie Doobie” over and over again … I probably would have believed you, but I wouldn’t have seen the path to get there.
Today I see the path.
Feeling grateful.
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October 31, 2023
You kinda can’t tell ‘cause she’s always in motion, but Lightning Bug is dressed as The French Resistance tonight.
She’s totally in character: When I ask her at each house to say “trick or treat“ she says “no.” When I ask if she’ll say “thank you” after receiving candy she says “no.”
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