Grandmommie and punkin head

We are such new parent wimps that with our monkey’s first (mild) cold, we took off work to watch him cough. Even better is that he’s back to the same sleep schedule he had at 2 months (he’s 5 months now). We’re at 9 days right now. I hope this cold is over soon.

That is a verrry cute picture of Leta!!!

PS: Isn’t there a clause in the parental contract that says if the first born is a lion, the second is a lamb???

Happily my boys are too old for Boobah, but we survived the Barney & Teletubbies phase just fine. Your mom is beautiful…

Awww, hurray for family bonding time!

All this bit about what the kids are called/what the kids call us brings to mind a habit I have when I walk into PreK and Kindergarten classrooms. I usually greet the kids with “Hi, Monsters.” Early on, they protest that they’re not monsters, so I tell them “You’re all monsters, but it’s the good kind.” Later on, they’ll respond “Hi, Mister Monster.”

This greeting on their part usually carries on into first and second grade. (-:

My kid, I used to call “cutiepie” or “shortstuff.” Nowadays (she’s 13) I find myself stifling the urge to call her “dumbass.” The times, they are a-changin’.

The only thing worse than the *possiblity* that Tom Cruise may be gay (I still don’t know where that info came from, and refuse to believe it…I just WON’T) is Jessica Simpson’s remake of “Take My Breath Away.” Such an atrocity.

Badger: Heh — weeks now, huh? That’s great!

Dooce: LOVE the picture! What a great one! What great smiles Lil Leta has!

The Boobahs are seriously strange little creatures, along the same lines (to me) as the TeleTubbies. Having said that, though, if you say “BoooooBaaaahhhh” in our house, our two year old’s head will immediately whip around to see the TV to see if the BoooBaaaahs are on.

Punkin! Hey! WE have a PUNKIN! She’s 7 years old now… *sigh*

Blue Balls…I love it! I’m going to have to start calling BoohBah that.

We do call both Boohbah and Baby Einstein Maddy’s Baby Crack…but we still let her watch them of course! We aren’t THOSE kind of parents! It just sucks now that she’s old enough to tell us what she wants and make a huge fuss when we don’t bow to her majesty’s every TV demand…mainly because we just can’t possibly watch those rainbow colored penises anymore!!! Or those very, very weird “story book people” who don’t talk, but wear strange clothes and smile way too much and too creepily, and push their “grandmama” and “grandpapa” off chairs or couches and down big hills (ok, ok, I work for an older adult organization), or jump up and down like a jack-n-the-box, and whose “brother” and “sister” story people hold hands and stare at each other just a bit too perversely…

Anyway…if I was going to start over with the baby crack, I’d shoot for Sesame Street. At least there is a lot more variety and you might not get quite so tired of watching it for hours on end…

What the hell is Boobah? I have a 2 year old and I’ve never heard of it.

I have to agree with whoever it was up there that said Baby Einstein, though. That crap is awesome. I was so disappointed when I heard I was supposed to watch it with him.

Wait… Tom Cruise IS GAY?!

Wow, I can tell just from the picture that the woman could totally sell me Avon products.

Claude,
I hear ya! I went from calling my kid “doodlebug” and “peepie” (wtf?), to “tardface.” (She’s 9 now). She responds to it and thinks it’s funny. I won’t be winning any mother-of-the-year awards any time soon…..c’est la vie!! And w/ the 13 y.o…yeah, I teach 14-15 y.o.s…..I want to call them “dumbass” and MUCH, MUCH more a LOT…..gotta stifle that urge too!

I have so say Grandma looks GREAT! You go Avon World Sales Leader! Leta is cute as always!

The Avon World Sales Leader looks like she’s sizing Leta up already for “products”…

You know Grandma is trying to figure what shade of lipstick would look best on Leta.

Why oh why did you have to tell me Tom was gay? Maybe he is just Bi-curious…OK.

Your mom looks like one of those women that smells absolutely marvelous. Even after she leaves a room, you can still smell her perfume and all you do is go, “Mmmmmm…”

My mom is one of those women. When I try to wear my mother’s perfume, I just stink.

Gramma is actually thinking pre-lipstick.

“Hmmm. Maybe she is a Summer. No, a Spring. Perhaps I should do a ColorMatch session just to be sure…”

Someday, Leta will inherit that Pig being, ah, “real friendly” with the Peppermint Stick. And someone will have to explain that to her.

“Um, Honey, when a Pig and Hard Candy love each other very VERY much….”

That’s the grin of a girl who knows that when she hits her teens she will be TOTALLY hooked-up for beauty products.

hee hee, I wrote horsey shoes.

I was telling my daughters to get shoes on for school (we leave in 4 minutes) and was typing at the same time.

It’s amazing to me that people invent stories about blubbery colored characters that barely speak, make EXTREMELY low budget shows about them and make MILLIONS of dollars of of it.

I’m surprised that so many of you didn’t know that T.C. is a MAN’S MAN in every single sense of the word. Dooce, I actually had a very pleasant conversation with Kelly McGillis when I went to Key West 2 yrs. ago. She owns a restaurant down there, and she checks up on it sometimes. Very nice lady. i wish I’d remembered to ask waht it was like kissing a gay man.

there go my ovaries again.

my punkin is watching Boobah RIGHT NOW so I can smurf me some blogs.

a SEALED Halls bag?

dooce, are you goin’ soft on us? what happened to the days when rolls of paper towels ran swiftly and freely through the rivers of Tequila and shards of broken glass?

Buying a kid toys before they are three is a waste man. They do not care about the toy, they want only for bits of discarded cardboard and or the phone.