msbelle, welcome home to you and Mac! I've been thinking about you all week, wondering how it's going. How's the language thing working out? Yay for kisses!!!
Could just be a hoax, though. I fake some headaches, everyone gets used to poor helpless Spike. Then one day, no warning, I snap a spine, bend a head back, drain 'em dry. Brilliant.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Topic!Cindy - Dec 10, 2006 5:40:35 am PST #5328 of 10007
What is even happening?
Jesse - Dec 10, 2006 5:43:53 am PST #5329 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
when mac grabbed something off the shelf and said "YES!" and then I said "No", there was no whining or begging.
So effing cute.
msbelle - Dec 10, 2006 5:49:23 am PST #5330 of 10007
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
language thing is ok for now, but I think he will start getting frustrated pretty soon. I am trying to just focus on a word or two at a time.
Kristen - Dec 10, 2006 5:58:19 am PST #5331 of 10007
and he woke up with a smile in his new bed and greated mom with kisses.
Awwwww. So sweet! I'm so happy for you both, msbelle.
Allyson - Dec 10, 2006 6:01:52 am PST #5332 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
oooh, how did he like the plane ride?
DavidS - Dec 10, 2006 6:07:28 am PST #5333 of 10007
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
mac and I are home. a little worse for the wear (I was sick for 4 days and then there were fleas or bedbugs or both), but HOME. and he woke up with a smile in his new bed and greated mom with kisses.
Sweetness of life itself!
That is so fucking great. I need to fly to New York and teach him how to play baseball immediately.
Nilly - Dec 10, 2006 6:08:25 am PST #5334 of 10007
Swouncing
pure and witty writing
Oh, yeah.
I think he will start getting frustrated pretty soon. I am trying to just focus on a word or two at a time.
msbelle, you're focusing on mac learning English, right, not on Amharic (sp?) for you?
msbelle - Dec 10, 2006 6:09:28 am PST #5335 of 10007
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think he got bored at times, but he LOVES airplanes, or as he says air-o-plane, so he really loved it.
plus all the buttons on the controller for the tv set in the seat back - that was LOTS of fun for him.
Allyson - Dec 10, 2006 6:11:46 am PST #5336 of 10007
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I bet that the frustration blooms into an unstoppable eagerness to learn. He's still a wee sponge and I bet there's a million things he wants to tell you and ask you.
Jesse - Dec 10, 2006 6:14:20 am PST #5337 of 10007
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, I have a message for msbelle that may be of use to other parents as well. In a conversation that randomly turned to those books with different scenes and the names of everything, a friend of mine charged me with teaching mac that calling it a "cement mixer" is wrong, that there is no such thing as a cement mixer, and it should properly be known as a "concrete mixer."
FYI.