Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to my little man!

Your laughing voice cheers me
Your embracing arms soothe me
Your little round belly invites me
To fill it up with vanilla ice cream.

Your busy hands challenge me.
Your giving heart heals me.
Your inventive head makes me yearn for
another story about another drawing.

Your joyful smile warms me.
Your twinkling eyes lift me.
Your dancing feet sweep me
Up in their rhythm.

Bad Choice

Please do not take my

laughing
photographing
texting mommy
facebooking

As an endorsement of this (smile - quick - stern face) behavior
This is a (tee hee) BAD CHOICE
Now take the sugar jar out of your mouth and help me clean this up

Hard Choices

There is that sound
The awful THWONK of a head
hitting something
hard

And then immediately following
CRYING
it hurts it hurts it hurts
and
HUGE TEARS

daddydaddydaddy

I'm here
I'm here
I'll give you a hug
There, there

That's bett-
Where are you going?

Yeah, I just got off the treadmill

sorry

Would you like some water instead?

Light Grey

I really like that shade of grey

It is the color of Parisian fog
It is the color of the soft underbelly of a lop-eared bunny
It is the color of campfire smoke

It should not be the color for the rug in a house with four children