Entries Tagged as 'Nolan'
On the third day of Christmas vaction my true love gave to me — a slippery, shiny ice storm
Bedtime: 1:50 a.m.
Waketime: 7:28 a.m.
Goals for the day: Move the mattress up into the still empty master bedroom, grocery shop, stay awake.
Instead of braving the shiny, ice-coated streets to go wrap gifts at the Barnes & Noble with FFJ, I Tibble-sat and spent the morning arguing with Cade, Nolan, and Liam about who was the [...]
I’d wear Superman underwear anyway
I was helping The Tibbles put on their pajamas before going downstairs to watch “the ghost movie” with the lights off and eat Nutter Butters (the ghost movie they were demanding? Casper Meets Wendy).
“Why don’t you have a penis?” Nolan asked.
“Because I am a girl,” I said.
“You need a penis,” he said.
“No I don’t,” I [...]
Tattoed love boys
Here’s the good thing about being an Aunt: you can cover your nephews with superhero tattoos.
And you don’t have to worry about them going to school, because they aren’t your kids.
Read moreHow a pack of Bubbalicious comes to resemble fine wine
A few weeks ago, I stopped by Sister #3’s house to hang out and commune with the Tibbles (which is a nickname Sister #2 gave to the 3 fabulous Becker boys). If you don’t get a good dose of little boy goodness, you start to get a bit wonky.
Because I am always striving to be [...]
Love is all you need
I started to write a pompous blah blah about not giving in to this national day of mourning. But I changed my mind. Instead I will focus on that which gives me joy.
Read moreWhich old witch? The Wicked Witch
While the munchkins were singing ‘ding dong the witch is dead,’ Nolie, who is two and a half, was standing next to me with both hands shoved into the pockets of his khaki shorts.
Mid-song he turned to me. “You not mean.”
“I’m not mean?” I asked him.
“No, you not mean.” He shook his head back and [...]
attack of the chocolate-covered two year old
since every sister, my mom, and tony were busy bowling and/or keeping score for the SJBT on saturday (the stink was in class, lucky fucker), i was left to serve beer to 32 bowlers and keep one eye on my niece and nephews (all five of them). i’ve never had my ass kicked so hard [...]
Read morethe itsy bitsy cutesy wootsy spider
at this point my biological clock made such a racket that max and jaycie thought that perhaps the tornado sirens were going off.
Read morea quickie for wendy, because she asked about this photo
this here is nolan, he’s almost 2 — star of jaycie and max’s soon-to-be-filmed movie “Nolie’s Motion Picture” (they plan on “Nolie’s Motion Picture 2 to come in 2007, they are just waiting to find a camera that can take videos — jaycie’s the writer and max is the director, they will tell you all [...]
Read morejaycie and max talk to the internet
this is a picture of nolie, it’s the one that jaycie and max picked out. max thinks we should call it “nolie’s motion picture.”
jaycie thinks it should be “butts, butts, and more butts, and a little fart.”
“sparkletoe stinks,” max said.
“can we write our own?” jaycie asked.
“how about i type and you talk, because i’m much [...]
rolie polie nolie the great defender of fun’s first birthday
today is the very first birthday of mr. enchanting himself, rolie polie nolie the great defender of fun. hooray! i always feel kinda bad because i don’t write as much about nolie and his brother the peanut as i do about jaycie and max. it makes me feel like i don’t love them as much. [...]
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