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treefort fun
Emeli in our treefort coloring
My kids spent ALLLL afternoon up in our treefort today. They brought up pillows, blankets, popcorn, drinks, markers, paper, boombox, et al. I snuck up to check out what was going on, and I must say it really was cozy. They are trying to get me to let them sleep in it over night. hmmmm?
At first I was reluctant to let them bring everything up there, but then I thought, “you know, I hardly let them do anything really crazy. Why not say yes? Be a nice daddy!” As parents, my generation (I’m 41 now) are pretty restrictive with kids, in my opinion. When I was a kid I could run around the neighborhood almost all day long without letting my parents know exactly
Quinn in the treefort
where I was. When I was around 8 years old I could ride my bike by myself all over my hometown of Barrington, IL. I usually needed to let my mom know where I was headed and when I’d be back. But I had a lot of autonomy. My kids have very little autonomy.
I must say “no” a thousand times a day. But sometimes I say “yes”, and today it all worked out well.
what turns me into the Hulk
- the incredible hulk
I saw The Incredible Hulk this past week in the mirror and on the big screen. My children trigger these changes that happen when I find the third wet and/or dirty sock left on various room floors after I’ve gently provided two polite requests to pick them up. I don’t yell often, so when I do Hulkish qualities surface.
fashion show birthday blowout
I’m still recovering from my daughter’s birthday party last night. We had 7 of Emeli’s girlfriends here for a makeover-sleepover-fashion show-camp rock movie premier birthday blowout. If it is true that people of the female gender speak 10K words a day on average, I think 70,000 words were spoken in about 4 hours last night. I did a lot of vacuuming yesterday and now I can hardly see the floor through all the barbie clothes, hanna montana wigs, and party favors. whew!
