Archive for December, 2008
Choice
Both of the boys can nowadays be quite contrary. They say “no” for the sake of saying “no” even if they really want to say “yes”. While up in DFW for Thanksgiving my Mother told me about a trick that she learned a while back that works really well in that when a toddler is [...]
Forest the Negotiator
Last week I took the boys up to DFW to see my family for Thanksgiving. I noticed over this trip that Forest has begun trying to negotiate for the things he wants. There were two really good examples of this during the trip:
First, ever since the Childrens’ Retreat out at Earthsprings Forest has been obsessed [...]
“Cookies” he said
I threw it out to the world for suggestions of blog posts and all of the responses were good ones. The first was from an old friend from Virginia. He and I dated briefly and were good friends for some years while I lived in the DC area. Now he has a [...]
Brotherhood
The boys may not do everything together but they definitely have a strong attachment to each other that is becoming more and more obvious as they get older.
Ever since their ability to crawl out of their cribs began a few months back, they love to fall asleep in the same bed. At first we thought [...]
