http://amiga.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:01:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My son calls me babba. Not mommy; not momma.  Babba.  We’re not really sure how this started.  He said momma first, so I knew long ago that he knew how to say it.  But, he just decided that he wanted to call me Babba.  There was a point when we ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2007/11/07/babba/ We took our little lion and butterfly around our neighborhood on Wednesday night for All Hallows Eve.  Cael had a fabulous time.  He started off the evening very tentative.  At our first stop, he looked curiously at the bowl of candy, very unsure about what was expected from him….though enticed ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2007/11/05/roar/ It’s been a long time.  So long, in fact, that I forgot how to find my own blog.  I had to go to a friend’s blog and follow a link to my husband’s blog and then follow his link to mine.  So, if it took me that much effort to ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2007/09/20/take-two/ Last year, for Halloween, Cael was Max from Where the Wild Things Are.  This year, I decided to stick with the children’s book theme and go with one of his Daddy’s favorites from childhood.  Now, if  you look back at the Curious George stories, he is mostly a naked little ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/11/03/curious-george/ My Dad is a Redskins fan.  Growing up, I was very proud to be a Redskins fan, too.  We watched the games on Sundays.  And, when my oldest brother moved to Florida, I got to fill his spot in the annual trip to watch our team play the Cowboys.  We’d ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/10/25/fan/ It’s been a long night. It is time for Ice Cream and Chocolate and time to revisit the long-neglected blog.  It is time because the benefit of having a long night is coming out of it with a story to tell, or, as the case may be, a story to ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/10/03/sometimes-easy-isnt/ In order to balance out the foul story of my last post and because C is having a terrible-horrible-no good-very bad-day today, here is something adorable that my little boy did the other day:  I was trying to get him to eat some chicken.  He’s not a big fan of ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/09/01/sweet-baby-story/ Lesson for the day: Never put your one-year-old to bed in just a diaper. You just never know what might happen. Do you really want the details? Baby C went down for his first nap in a T-shirt and a diaper.  Yes.  Older, wiser mothers may have thought twice about this. ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/08/29/what-i-learned-today/ When I was quite young and, I suppose, recently potty-trained but not yet fully trusted to make it through the night, my mom would scoop me up out of bed for mid-night visits to the bathroom.  She would set me on the toilet in my delirious state and tell me ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/08/04/sleep-tight/ A few weeks ago now, our dear friends Aaron and Nicole spent their vacation time to drive half-way across the country to visit us. Josh and Aaron were roommates for a year in college. Nicole and I knew each other throughout college, but not very well. The summer after she ... http://amiga.blogsome.com/2006/07/29/friends/