Comments on: this is what they will talk about when they talk about their childhood

By: sozzled

sozzled — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:45:00 +0000

My youngest still talks of the sunburn she got when she was 3 yrs old. Not of the fun spring break vacation to warm weather to meet a certain famous mouse. not the rides, the pools the beaches. but the sunburn.

your boys are adorable!

By: kyra

kyra — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:47:00 +0000

so funny! i love hearing about your boys. i love the conversations you all have.

By: Suburban Turmoil

Suburban Turmoil — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:01:00 +0000

Ha! I totally relate to this post. My husband is no doubt one of the world’s best fathers- He has done absolutely ANYTHING for his girls. Yet to this day, my 15-year-old continually brings up the time she was three and she went to Disneyland and her dad wouldn’t let her get a huge lollipop!

Finally, when we were in Seattle two years ago, we found another huge lollipop and brought it home to her, hoping it would finally shut her up. She took about two licks and never touched it again…

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 15:22:00 +0000

Well, it’s nice to know they’re keeping a list handy for the therapist.

Impressive that you snuck in a little education about the heart. I would have said something like, “In the movie Alien, a baby alien rips out of Sigourney Weaver’s chest! Cool, huh?!”

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:38:00 +0000

Callie, we’re hoping Henry will grow up to be a successful surgeon and support us in our old age.

And sadly, no, the boys did not put those outfits together themselves; we were meeting my in-laws for brunch at their country club, which has a NO JEANS rule, and this was the best we could cobble together for the boys. It took me ALL MORNING to find them each a pair of non-denim pants that fit. Not so cute now, is it?

By: Callie

Callie — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:36:00 +0000

You are freaking me out. Yesterday, my Henry came to me and said, “Mom, why don’t they teach us about skeletons and hearts at school? I REALLY want to learn about that.” So we printed out some diagrams of skeletons and organs (what DID we do before the internet?) and he is FASCINATED with the one of the heart. We have a diagram of all of the ventricles and atriums and which way blood flows through each heart. How many 5 year-olds out there are interested in the mechanisms of the humant heart? Weird coincidence.