Some moments of maternal pride on Friday:
- Henry being a total trooper traveling to/from Brooklyn on the subway in the morning to meet some adorable baby twins. He spent the entire ride there reading books and excitedly identifying numbers on the train, the entire ride back eating snacks and trying to stay awake, and both the twins and their home survived his visit unscathed. Henry for the win!
- Brendan exclaiming to all of us, "Look how talented I am. I'm flying a spaceship AND kicking a soccer ball!"
- O & B sweetly initiating a game of ring around the rosie with Henry ("more ashes ashes!")
- Henry repeatedly saying "oh man!" to himself while playing "baskeyball."
- O & B looking together at a book of Greek mythology and, in discussing Helen of Troy and Aphrodite, trying to find the story about "the apple of discord."
- Henry putting his hands up menacingly and stage whispering "nooooboooody!" before attacking me, after I played a game of "noooboooody survives the tickle fingers of doom" with him on the changing table.
- Owen killing it in soccer class. The kid is goood. Although he's so focused on running at top speed to the ball that he falls constantly, but it doesn't seem to phase him in the least.
And less so:
- Brendan getting frustrated during that same soccer game, spending literally half the game crying in the corner and then having the audacity to complain to me afterwards that he didn't score any goals.
- All three boys fighting in the tub over a pirate island bath toy.
- Owen somehow clicking on something on our computer that opened up a zillion porn sites in the time it took me to bend down and pick something up off the floor. When I stood up, there was an extreme close-up shot of a woman's face right next to an also extremely close-up penis. (Kevin's question afterwards - "was it a video or a picture?" I have absolutely no idea, I think I was in shock.) Naturally, I screamed in horror and clicked frantically to shut it down, only to have about 7 more sites pop up as I did. O & B were all "what IS that, mommy?" and then O said "that looks like a bad site. I think we should delete it, don't you?" YIKES.
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