Me: Thomas, it’s bathtime!
Thomas: No, it’s cuddle with mommy time!
[how can you say no to that?]
Archive for August, 2008
Good Dog, Otto. Good. Dog.
I was talking to my friend Susie on the phone while Thomas was distributing the stickers. I laughed and said “Thomas just put a bunch of scooby doo stickers on Otto.” Thomas shouted (as if to remind me): “On mommy too!! On mommy too!!” Which was true. And then I promptly went to a meeting in the English department without remembering to take the stickers off my forearms. At least I had Thomas with me, and he too had stickers on his arms, so I wasn’t the only one.
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An unrelated conversation:
Thomas: [making repeated but strange coughing noises.]
Me: Are you okay buddy?
Thomas: Yes. [cough. cough. cough.]
Me: Is that a real cough or a fake cough?
Thomas: Fake cough. [cough. cough.]
Me: Can you stop coughing?
Thomas: Yes. [cough.]
Will: Are you ready to get cleaned up and go for a walk?
Thomas: No.
Will: ??
Thomas: I’ll go for a bike ride.
We’ve made the “Green Spaghetti” (aka spaghetti with a simple pesto) recipe from Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes: A Cookbook for Preschoolers & Up a couple of times in the past few weeks. Thomas LOVES it, and it’s even more fun since the recipes are written out in little comic strips so my little non-reader can follow along and help. Thomas is very good at turning the food processor on and off.
And did I mention that he LOVES the pesto?
There’s nothing like cleaning pulverized basil, parmesan, and olive oil off a kid’s face.
does one manage to conclude a project that one has been working on for four years?
Can it be done in two to three pages?
I hope so, because if not, my brain might explode.
As Thomas likes to say, “ka-BOOM.”
