Ethan’s old CD player broke so we went out and got him a new one along with a new CD. Since then he’s been playing this song on repeat, and switching between whistling the melody and singing along with an appropriately wistful, rock-ballad-esque vibrato:
Next: black fingernail polish, bangin’ moustache, and glittery leotard.
The boy is growing up.
His parent-teacher conference, melded with a student-sharing meeting at the school, went really well yesterday. He’s using his daily journal entries for class to expound on personal issues, and more often, daily updates for the teacher on Pablo, Merle, and Doug.
Tomorrow he tests for his yellow belt in Tae Kwon [...]
When I was eighteen and pregnant, I went to my sister’s house for a long two week stay. It was reckoning time, time to make decisions about what I was going to do with the baby, what I was going to do with myself, and how I was going to steer my life after [...]
Ethan celebrated his eighth birthday today with many congratulations. Most important to him is that he has secured a reciprocal crush from a fellow classmate at school, about which we are to say nothing and reveal to no one. So, shhhh.
Ethan (almost 8) and my nephew (12) spent last week making stop-motion animation using a digital camera and a box of LEGOs. You’ll notice that once the pictures were completed they filmed a Windows slideshow of the pictures to animate the stills. The sound effects are Ethan. Soooo cute, and very creative especially [...]
I told Ethan that Mommy was going to have teeth removed tomorrow and she would be under anaesthesia and everything, and Mommy would probably be out of it for a day or two, and he replied, “Huh. I just saw on the news when a man woke up in the middle of surgery and [...]
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Ethan’s Watermelon Plant, originally uploaded by feminaerecta.
For several years Ethan has insisted on planting watermelon, and never before this year has his plant made it past the seedling stage.
This year Ethan’s watermelon was well-attended — [...]
I thought it would be cool to introduce Ethan to kid-friendly singable music even I can listen to, but I was wrong.
I also introduced him to poetry. All night, every night, I am assaulted with Human League, Tears for Fears, and Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Last week I picked Ethan up after work and as soon as he buckled his carseat he dropped the bomb.
Ethan: Mom, did you know Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny don’t exist?
Me: Really?
Ethan: Yeah. Parents just take your Christmas list and buy you stuff off it and say it’s from Santa, [...]
Ethan has expressed distaste for being featured on Flickr and Youtube, so I’ve taken down his pictures and made them available only to family and friends. When I was a kid, the only fear was that mom would whip out the baby pictures in front of my crush du jour.
This ain’t no thang — [...]
Excuse the Bragging Mom: Ethan competed in a piano and theory contest last weekend and won three ribbons and a trophy. This kid earned it — he practiced every day on his own, memorized his music on his own, studied his theory on his own — and did I mention that he kicked [...]
What with all the awful news and other shit going on, I’m depressive and don’t feel like writing whatsoever. Instead I’ll note that Ethan has been singing this song on a loop for three days running. We’re creating a new wave monster.
When he was a toddler, this song was his thang. [...]
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