Posts Tagged “Ciaranisms”
If you’ve been paying attention to this blog at all the last few weeks you would know Fiddler On The Roof has had a major pressence in our lives. First we had the latest addition to our family, Tevye, then a few days later our oldest cat Chava died. A great “Sunrise, Sunset” example. I…
As we were moving, in the throws of the beginning of our remodel, right after Tevye was born, we had yet another major event happen in our lives. Our old cat Chava was put to sleep. She came to us a rainy September day in 1997. She was sitting outside our window, meowing, waiting to…
Here he is – Tevye Stephen MacKay Pelfrey Born May 6 at 3:47 in the afternoon. Everybody is doing fine, which is the most important thing. The older kids are excited to have a new addition to the family. Saturday there seemed to be an hour and a half where “things were going to happen”…
I’m in the kitchen working on dinner when Ciárán comes through on his way outside to play in the back yard. As he walks through the door he turns around and says, “What if every time you say ‘No way, José!’ some guy named José popped up and said ‘Oh, man!’” And with that he…
I turned around and there he was – a head taller than I remember. Ciárán is at an awkward stage in so many ways. At 6 years old he is still very much a young kid. The other day he had a stuffed bear that attacked people with fluffiness to make them good. On the…
Three years ago I took August, Déla and Ciárán to see Winnie The Pooh in theaters. At 3 years old, he was a little scared but excited. It was a big, dark, loud place. While we don’t typically think of it, for younger children a movie theater can be a little daunting. When the Spy Kids…
For the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday Ciárán’s Kindergarten class had a project to work on at home over the weekend. Tom Turkey is a project where the kids cut out an outline/silhouette of a turkey and then disguise it do it doesn’t get caught and subsequently eaten. Ciárán initially wanted to disguise his Tom Turkey as…
I will admit to not liking “Caillou” when I first watched it. For years I loathed the little kid. I found him whiny and irritating. Then I realized something. He’s just like every other 4 year old. Why do we as parents find Caillou so irritating? Because his behavior is ridiculously accurate. Not only that,…
Ciárán had 8 teeth by the time he was 8 months old. Seriously. It was a little weird. None of our other kids had that many teeth at that time. Now at the age of 6 he’s losing his teeth. Literally. Thursday Ciárán lost a tooth. At school. As in actually lost it in the school’s…
Of all the kids, Ciárán was the one who didn’t want to go. He’s rather contrary by nature and doesn’t necessarily like to step outside of his comfort zone. One of the other major reasons he didn’t want to go was his birthday would occur while away on vacation. He was afraid we wouldn’t be…