A blog full of memories
Both M-pants and Jman are growing up so fast. I have this quote: “The days are long, but the years are short.” I thought I should at least start recording progress. M-pants likes books right now. Especially those simple books with one picture on each page. He likes the interactive book T’choupi et Dou-dou–the one …
How many stories are there about that pinot noir quote in Sideways? How many people did it resonate with? I know I was one of them. Bear with me, it is a good story. When I first met my husband, we were colleagues working in a start up in California. At that time, he was …
Memorable day today: M-pants took about seven step by himself. He is definitely walking now. Jman climbed up the play structure for big kids (a number of times), by himself, and slid down the big kid’s slide. Then, he climbed up the slide (a number of times), and slid down again. The slide was at …
Is it a prophecy? We bought them at the Reynolds-Alberta Museum on our visit to Alberta. The school bus is Jman’s (based on his facination with them). The Corvette is actually M-pants’s–but he doesn’t know it yet. I just think it’s great that these two vehicles are the ones that Jman plays with the most.
Random story from our trip: we went to the big dinosaur museum (Royal Tyrell) in Drumheller, AB. A world class museum on dinosaurs. What caught the Jman’s interest? A school bus! We even had to go say hello to it. Luckily enough, the driver was still aboard. She let him board and sit in the …
I told Jman today to look up when he walked. He seems always to be looking down at his feet. He bumps into things left, right, and centre. I said if he looked up he would see where he was going and he wouldn’t bump his head as much. He looked up. Way up. To …
Today, somebody in FB accidently typed the word ‘foul’ instead of the word ‘foil’. I laughed and told her this story: My mother has terrible handwriting. Nobody has ever–in the history of time (at least my time)–ever been able to decipher it. When my parents were first married, my mum wrote my dad a shopping …
Jman came dancing out of his room today–without his diaper on. “Pee-pee Maman. Pee-pee!” I glanced up from my laptop and absently asked: “Great Jman. Pee-Pee. Do you have to go pee-pee?” A bit excited as we have been telling him about the toilet and potties lately. And asking if he wants to use the …
I have been remembering my friend Carol lately as I try to exercise a bit each day and get my pre-pregnancy body back. Carol and her husband were my neighbours in Healdsburg. They once took me on a ski trip to Tahoe. I was 32. They were 55 (ish). They have exercised at least one …