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You know what sucks? When your kid, who's been resisting his afternoon nap, finally sleeps and you have to listen to the sounds of other kids' screaming.  Sitting here in our office/everything room, the plaintive cries of babies are rising to my unsympathetic ears. Toddlers fussing and yelling. So realistic are they, I keep running to H's door to see if it's him. Doesn't help much that we live across the street from the park.

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Two years ago I bought an iPod. A year later it broke. Like two days after the one year warantee ended. I've been using the Mr. Himself's old machine, which unfashionably bulky though it is, works brilliantly. Or has worked. Until today. I can hear songs alright, but I can't choose them since the display has burnt out. I can't see anything. I guess I have to fork over the cash and buy a new one, since after all this time, I've just learned how to buy songs on iTunes.

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At two years and two weeks, H. doesn't really put two words together yet. Unless it's something like sea turtle. Or mmmm cookie. But for some reason, he's just started saying the weirdest thing: Up, I say. When he wants to be picked up, he raised both arms and declares, "Up, I say!" Where the hell did he get that from? Up I say! Who says that? I mean, who aside from Little Lord Fauntleroy?

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Mr. Himself and I are that annoying couple you go out to dinner with who find typos on the menu the moment we open it up. And not only that, but we have the gall to point out said typos, roll our eyes, and say, "This just won't do." And then everyone rolls their eyes at us and says thanks for ruining the dining experience. But it's a gift. A calling, almost. What are we supposed to do, just turn it off?

Well, we got ours, so to speak. Witness the birthday banner.

Un-happy birtaday, I say!

 

Comments

[Jill]

sounds like our kids are in the same boat linguistically! won't use the k or c sound for example - milk is milp, and cup is bup... but he can say cookie and cake clear as a bell!

[marla]

Doesn't he sound like Sir Top Hat on Thomas?

[walein]

You might have to begin monitoring Mr. Himself's "Etiquette Parties™"