Entries Tagged as 'Nolan'
Aunt Jodi’s Early Morning Dance Party — the video
This is what most every Wednesday morning is like at my house. It’s really a lot of fun. What I love about this video is that Nolan gets bored or tired half-way through and Liam mimics him. But when Nolan lays down, Liam really busts out his best movies
Read moreThings that are too dangerous according to Nolan age 4
1. Tornadoes
2. Sliding down the slide on your feet
3. Sucking Legos in and out
4. Crossing the street without hanging on to hands
A brief list of things Nolan, age 4, has informed me of today
The cut on his finger came from a ninja sword
Worms are not bugs
His mom said he could stay at the park until it’s dark out
If he has caffeine he will die
Pirates always bury the hidden treasure at the bottom of the slide
Going home from the park makes him very angry
If I don’t push him high [...]
The Batman place, a brief talk with Nolan, age 4, who thought up this title & picked this picture
What are you doing? Liam asks.
Nolan is going to blog, I say. What do you want to tell people Nolan?
Be nice to Jaycie, he says. Be nice to Maxwell.
What are you doing today? I ask.
Ahh, we’re gonna fly kites and stuff, and have ice cream. First we are gonna fly kites.
What are you doing with [...]
Reason 83 the mail cart rules
As I type this the teeny Tibbles are “polishing” up the mailcart. They say it’s like washing a car but more fun, because it smells better. Thank you mailcart and Method.
Read moreThings that have been proclaimed as boring by Nolan, a list before 9 a.m.
The Magic School Bus
Checking e-mail
The Smurfs
Making breakfast
Dude Weather
Monster Trucks
Watching TV in general
Listening to music
Tumbling Dice by The Rolling Stones
Me
My house
Things that are apparently not boring because it has occupied him for roughly seven minutes? Putting the camera in the camera case and then taking it out and then putting it back.
Read moreIf you were 3, 4, or 6 this would totally make your day
I watched all three pairs of eyes widen with delight as they heard the big Culligan truck back onto my street.
“What’s that?” Cade climbed onto the La-Z-Grrl to get a good look out the window.
“That’s the Culligan Man, he’s bring fresh water,” I said.
“I need to look out the door.” Liam fumbled with the [...]
I’ve become a mouth-breather with really chapped lips
So what, a person updates their site like everyday for three months and then skips three days and it’s like she’s dead? Nah. I just feel like I am. Living with a gaggle of Knee-high Infection DisseminatorS can really lay a person out. I’m a shut-in. I’m not used to all these germs. I long [...]
Read moreDead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant, dead ant
Dear Pink Panther & Huckleberry Hound,
Thank you. For some inexplicable reason you have managed to keep the two tiniest Tibbles’ attention for an entire 38 minutes.
In heaven,
Jodi
Aunt Jodi’s early-morning Dance Party
I’m a morning music listener. There’s nothing more I like to do after watching Dude Weather is crank a few tunes. Since the Tibbles have been here, I’ve been slowing acclimating them to this morning music. They love it. Specifically, they love to listen to “Ring of Fire.” Three-year-old Liam knows all the words by [...]
Read moreIt is not all hell and high water
An argument
I’ve discovered that if you don’t want chocolate milk accidentally spilled on your books, you should probably not leave them littered on every surface of your abode. So this afternoon in lieu of doing anything really productive, I sat and put my books away while Liam and Nolie watched Wow Wow Wubbzy!
Nolan quickly tired of [...]
Overheard in Shakopee: The Heartbreak Edition
“I will keep the Batman ninja sword at my other house,” Nolan said.
“No,” Cade said. “We aren’t going back to that house ever ever ever ever again. We live here now.”
“NO!” Nolan shouted. “I want to go back where we started from.”
A boy after my own heart
While Liam, Cade, and I were still happily making Valentines, Nolie decided he was done. He climbed into the La-Z-Grrl and started perusing the random reading material piled on it. Probably the cutest thing ever.
Read moreI dusted bookshelves for this
Two days of cleaning, a day and a half of cooking, a gallon each of homemade soup and chili, dusted bookcases and I was practically stood up. Yeah. No aunts or uncles or cousins. One set called in sick, another called in apathetic, another was just MIA. My sisters (sans Sister #2 who was in [...]
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