I often have the music on my mp3 player on shuffle in the kitchen, especially before and after dinner (and sometimes during). One evening a few months ago, after launching myself at the player and “la la la-ing” really loudly after I realized that the Ben Folds song, “Rockin’ the Suburbs” that was playing was […]
Author Archives: Abi Bowling
All day WOW
August 12, 2010 – 8:41 pm
To those who are familiar with my family, it comes as no surprise to hear that Ethan, my energetic, full-of-life-and-his-own-direction five-year-old is yet again in trouble for one reason or another. He has a hard time being a “first-time listener,” and is a boundary-pusher. He has trouble controlling his body and his impulses, and we […]
Summer is gone, or, PHEW!
August 12, 2010 – 11:36 am
Ethan spent just over three weeks at the beginning of the summer at my in-laws’ place in Idaho, having so much fun every single day. My mother-in-law made sure there was always something to do, whether it be swimming at the community pool with Grandma, building a Rube Goldberg machine in the garage with Grandpa, […]
Age
August 3, 2010 – 8:03 am
Him: I’m five and a half! Me: Not yet, buddy, but almost. Him: Okay, then, am I five and a quarter? Me: Nope. You’re… (I try to tell him he is one month shy of being five and a half.) Him: I know! Five and a penny. That’s it. I’m five and a penny.
Trophy
August 1, 2010 – 1:38 pm
Me: Ethan, if there were an award for Big Brother of the Year, I bet you would get it. Him: If I did get that trophy, Mom, you know what I would do? Me: What? Him: I would give it to Henry and Miranda. Me: But, why? Him: Because I love them so really much. […]
