Dear Connor,
You came up to me today and told me that I am a good mom. I said, "I try." You responded, "You don't try, you do."
Thanks so much for that, sweetie! That made me feel really great.
Love,
Mom
Sunday, December 17, 2017
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Three Outs
Dear Connor,
If you were to list, in order, the people who call me the most, it would go:
1. Daddy
2. PoiPoi
3. GongGong
4. Your school nurse
Seriously! The nurse seems to call me every other week. You have either crashed into someone on the playground, started having a coughing fit, complained of a headache, developed some weird rash after eating a cupcake (true story) . . . The reason for today's call was the first example I listed (which is also the most common reason your nurse calls me). You were running around the playground during recess and bumped heads with another kid. Like I said, that has happened many times before and like those times, you were fine but today, the collision knocked out your loose tooth! You have officially lost three baby teeth!
Love,
Mom
If you were to list, in order, the people who call me the most, it would go:
1. Daddy
2. PoiPoi
3. GongGong
4. Your school nurse
Seriously! The nurse seems to call me every other week. You have either crashed into someone on the playground, started having a coughing fit, complained of a headache, developed some weird rash after eating a cupcake (true story) . . . The reason for today's call was the first example I listed (which is also the most common reason your nurse calls me). You were running around the playground during recess and bumped heads with another kid. Like I said, that has happened many times before and like those times, you were fine but today, the collision knocked out your loose tooth! You have officially lost three baby teeth!
Love,
Mom
Monday, December 11, 2017
Different Tastes
Dear Connor,
I cooked sausage, bean and barley soup for dinner tonight and when I was cleaning up the table after everyone had finished eating, I noticed that you had eaten everything except the cannellini beans, MuiMui had eaten everything except the carrots and DiDi had eaten everything except the sausage.
You like spinach ricotta ravioli but not butternut squash ravioli. MuiMui likes butternut squash ravioli but not spinach ricotta ravioli. DiDi doesn't like either and just eats the outer pasta part of the ravioli, leaving the filling.
You eat pasta with tomato sauce. JieJie and DiDi eat pasta but not if it's covered in tomato sauce.
You and DiDi enjoy grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter. Your sister hates grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter.
MuiMui and DiDi both eat strawberries, oranges, pineapple, yogurt, string cheese, cashews, pistachios, corn, cauliflower, shrimp and California rolls. You won't touch any of that.
Gaaaaah. Meal planning for three kids with three very different palettes is. A. Huge. Pain. Sometimes, I just want to give you all cereal for dinner and be done with it :-P
Love,
Mom
I cooked sausage, bean and barley soup for dinner tonight and when I was cleaning up the table after everyone had finished eating, I noticed that you had eaten everything except the cannellini beans, MuiMui had eaten everything except the carrots and DiDi had eaten everything except the sausage.
You like spinach ricotta ravioli but not butternut squash ravioli. MuiMui likes butternut squash ravioli but not spinach ricotta ravioli. DiDi doesn't like either and just eats the outer pasta part of the ravioli, leaving the filling.
You eat pasta with tomato sauce. JieJie and DiDi eat pasta but not if it's covered in tomato sauce.
You and DiDi enjoy grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter. Your sister hates grapes, applesauce, oatmeal and peanut butter.
MuiMui and DiDi both eat strawberries, oranges, pineapple, yogurt, string cheese, cashews, pistachios, corn, cauliflower, shrimp and California rolls. You won't touch any of that.
Gaaaaah. Meal planning for three kids with three very different palettes is. A. Huge. Pain. Sometimes, I just want to give you all cereal for dinner and be done with it :-P
Love,
Mom
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
I'm A Cool Mom
Dear Connor,
Daddy and I love this show called "This Is Us" (it's one of the only shows we both like to watch AND one where Daddy actually stays awake for the entire episode no matter how early or late it is, which--believe me--is a rare feat!) and during last night's episode, one of the teenage characters said, "I know my mother does some stupid stuff sometimes, but mostly she's cool."
As the future mother of three teenagers, that is the highest praise I will hope for from you and your siblings. :-P
Love,
Your eternally cool mom
Daddy and I love this show called "This Is Us" (it's one of the only shows we both like to watch AND one where Daddy actually stays awake for the entire episode no matter how early or late it is, which--believe me--is a rare feat!) and during last night's episode, one of the teenage characters said, "I know my mother does some stupid stuff sometimes, but mostly she's cool."
As the future mother of three teenagers, that is the highest praise I will hope for from you and your siblings. :-P
Love,
Your eternally cool mom
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Push It
Dear Connor,
We had this conversation in the car yesterday:
You: Mama, how hard is it to push out a baby?
Me: It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do physically. And it hurts a LOT.
You: Wow, I'm really glad I'm not a girl!
Love,
Mom
We had this conversation in the car yesterday:
You: Mama, how hard is it to push out a baby?
Me: It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do physically. And it hurts a LOT.
You: Wow, I'm really glad I'm not a girl!
Love,
Mom
Friday, November 10, 2017
Cry Session
Dear Connor,
It began innocently enough. We have "Movie Night Fridays" in our house and the movie this week was Boss Baby. We had seen the commercials when it was in theaters way back in March and it looked really funny, so we were excited to finally be able to rent it on Netflix. During the first half of the movie, you, MuiMui and DiDi laughed and giggled and seemed to be enjoying the movie. Fast forward to the climactic chase scene near the end--I kid you not, all THREE of you started bawling, one after the other. First, you started screaming and crying. MuiMui was already whimpering in fear and when you started crying, that pushed her over the edge and she started wailing. The movie didn't upset DiDi but seeing the two of you crying did, so he took his cues from you guys and began sobbing. What. In. The. Holy. WORLD?!?!?
We have watched plenty of kids' movies that had scary parts (the wolves chasing Anna and Kristoff in Frozen, the Beast kidnapping Belle's father in Beauty and the Beast, etc.) but the particular scene that we were watching in Boss Baby when the three of you lost it didn't seem like it would trigger any nightmares. The movie centers around a little boy and his baby brother and during the big scene, their parents are at the airport and about to leave for a business trip. The parents had left the boys under the care of a babysitter who turned out to be mean, so the boys had run to the airport to catch their parents. The boys didn't get there in time, though, so they watched from afar as their parents boarded the plane and the crew shut the door. And it was at that exact point that you started crying, thus setting off the sibling chain reaction.
Of course, in retrospect, Daddy and I now see why that scene would be so frightening for three little kids. Their parents left them! They have to stay with the evil babysitter! I'm so sorry you guys got scared. And I'm also sorry Daddy and I weren't that successful in stifling our laughter as we were comforting all of you. We were not expecting that scene to affect you so much and we were so bewildered when all of you were crying at the same time!
Love,
Mom
It began innocently enough. We have "Movie Night Fridays" in our house and the movie this week was Boss Baby. We had seen the commercials when it was in theaters way back in March and it looked really funny, so we were excited to finally be able to rent it on Netflix. During the first half of the movie, you, MuiMui and DiDi laughed and giggled and seemed to be enjoying the movie. Fast forward to the climactic chase scene near the end--I kid you not, all THREE of you started bawling, one after the other. First, you started screaming and crying. MuiMui was already whimpering in fear and when you started crying, that pushed her over the edge and she started wailing. The movie didn't upset DiDi but seeing the two of you crying did, so he took his cues from you guys and began sobbing. What. In. The. Holy. WORLD?!?!?
We have watched plenty of kids' movies that had scary parts (the wolves chasing Anna and Kristoff in Frozen, the Beast kidnapping Belle's father in Beauty and the Beast, etc.) but the particular scene that we were watching in Boss Baby when the three of you lost it didn't seem like it would trigger any nightmares. The movie centers around a little boy and his baby brother and during the big scene, their parents are at the airport and about to leave for a business trip. The parents had left the boys under the care of a babysitter who turned out to be mean, so the boys had run to the airport to catch their parents. The boys didn't get there in time, though, so they watched from afar as their parents boarded the plane and the crew shut the door. And it was at that exact point that you started crying, thus setting off the sibling chain reaction.
Of course, in retrospect, Daddy and I now see why that scene would be so frightening for three little kids. Their parents left them! They have to stay with the evil babysitter! I'm so sorry you guys got scared. And I'm also sorry Daddy and I weren't that successful in stifling our laughter as we were comforting all of you. We were not expecting that scene to affect you so much and we were so bewildered when all of you were crying at the same time!
Love,
Mom
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Halloween Treat
Dear Connor,
While getting bucketfuls of free candy was undoubtedly the highlight of your--and every kids'--Halloween, my favorite part about yesterday was seeing how thoughtful you are.
You love your sweets (your favorites are Snickers, Tootsie Rolls and butterscotch Dum-Dums) and--again, like every kid--set out yesterday to collect as much Halloween loot as possible. We began trick-or-treating shortly after you and MuiMui got out of school, but our friend Brian and his daughter JoJo couldn't start until later on. They joined us around 4:30pm and when you saw JoJo's empty trick-or-treat bucket, you immediately threw a big handful of your candy into it without anyone even asking you to. I was so touched and am so proud of you for being so kind.
We trick-or-treated for two hours and when we got home, you wanted to share more of your candy, so you and MuiMui sat on our front steps and paid it forward by giving away your candy to trick-or-treaters. Since it was later on in the evening, many of the trick-or-treaters were older kids in middle school, so it was kind of funny to see a second grader giving his Halloween candy to eighth graders. You and MuiMui had a lot of fun passing out candy but that part of the evening wasn't completely altruistic--whereas you gave JoJo candy you do like (I saw you toss her some Snickers and Mott's fruit snacks), you told me in between trick-or-treaters, "I'm giving them the candy I don't like so it won't go to waste." Smart!
Love,
Mom
While getting bucketfuls of free candy was undoubtedly the highlight of your--and every kids'--Halloween, my favorite part about yesterday was seeing how thoughtful you are.
You love your sweets (your favorites are Snickers, Tootsie Rolls and butterscotch Dum-Dums) and--again, like every kid--set out yesterday to collect as much Halloween loot as possible. We began trick-or-treating shortly after you and MuiMui got out of school, but our friend Brian and his daughter JoJo couldn't start until later on. They joined us around 4:30pm and when you saw JoJo's empty trick-or-treat bucket, you immediately threw a big handful of your candy into it without anyone even asking you to. I was so touched and am so proud of you for being so kind.
We trick-or-treated for two hours and when we got home, you wanted to share more of your candy, so you and MuiMui sat on our front steps and paid it forward by giving away your candy to trick-or-treaters. Since it was later on in the evening, many of the trick-or-treaters were older kids in middle school, so it was kind of funny to see a second grader giving his Halloween candy to eighth graders. You and MuiMui had a lot of fun passing out candy but that part of the evening wasn't completely altruistic--whereas you gave JoJo candy you do like (I saw you toss her some Snickers and Mott's fruit snacks), you told me in between trick-or-treaters, "I'm giving them the candy I don't like so it won't go to waste." Smart!
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| Sorting your loot at the end of the night |
Love,
Mom
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