Just to clarify... "asshole" is not a word we use in our family-- unless you count words thought but not spoken while driving-- and not one that Isaac has ever heard. He really was saying gas hole in complete and touching innocence of its s

Nomenclature problems...

Granted, I left a 4-year-old unattended with a pomegranate. Mea culpa on that one. But baby was crying. Isaac was happily eating the thing, and not for the first time. What I expected when I returned with baby in a sling five minutes later was that t

I'm getting pretty infatuated with this baby. It may be his plumpness, the chubby rolls on his limbs. It may his male pattern baldness, with an especially monkish fringe around the back. It may be his ever expanding array of sounds, a diverse rep