In about a week, I will be an age that rhymes with schmirty schmive. I am way too old to love my birthday but I still do. I occasionally feel anxious about mortality, an aging body and its attendant aches and pains, and I definitely tug at the loose skin around my neck and arms…
Category: Liam
Tex and His Brothers
The very silly nickname of Tex has started growing on us. No matter what this kid’s name ends up being, I have a feeling he’s going to go by “Tex.” I’m already imagining his little personality, one that fits that name. I have a feeling that though this little boy will have very few…
Cute Child Things, August 2013
They had an “around the world” month at daycare, and at the end of the month brought home a “passport” with stamps in it from each country they visited. Liam, reading off the countries he “visited” and pointing to each stamp in turn, says this: We went to China, Germany, France, and da country wif…
Three
Dearest Liam, darling of mine – Yesterday, you turned three. A couple of days before that, you were angry that we didn’t have any more fruit bars. And so you snuck into the pantry and shredded up three rolls of toilet paper in your frustration. I don’t know who coined the Terrible Twos, because I…
Birthday Baseball
Yesterday was Liam’s third birthday party, at the Mobile Bay Bears game. I took no photographs of this party, sadly – I was too busy enjoying company and protecting my children’s precious heads from fly balls. Liam’s actual birthday is Saturday, June 15th, and another kid in his class is having a huge Super Why…