Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”
Last week it was my 3rd and 4th graders performing for their winter concert. This week it was my preschooler and Kindergartener. Only the preschooler was sick. He stayed home Monday with a small cough that escalated on Tuesday to something that couldn’t be shrugged off so I took him to the pediatrician. They gave…
Just a couple of pictures this time. Last night was the winter concert for several grades from the kids’ school. I blurred out the other kids, but you should be able to see Déla and August pretty clearly. Here’s Déla singing with the 3rd grade. She’s in the middle. August in in the upper left. He…
Nope. No pictures of Thanksgiving. Remember when I posted about Déla’s gymnastics championship? This week the next quarter of gymnastics started up and the final standings were posted. Her team tied for first, but for some reason was awarded second place. Note some of those great team names. Also this week at gymnastics Xavier was…
I’m putting Xavier, age 3, down for nap yesterday afternoon. I wasn’t looking forward to his waking up with a Pull-Up full of solids.
We were all upstairs getting ready for bed. It was that time after bath and just before stories. While discussing names for the upcoming baby it came out that Déla thought it would be a girl, but Xavier was determined that we would be having a boy. “What are you going to do if it’s…
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…
Yeah, I’m making up a word. So what. Last night Déla had a sleepover. Well, she attended one. Saturday was the culmination of the fall gymnastics season. In the afternoon there as the championship meet and in the evening was the sleepover. Where Déla has her gymnastics there are three different locations. There are different levels…
It was time for mid-morning snack. Déla got some sliced apples and went back downstairs to continue watching television. A moment later Xavier came upstairs asking for snack. He opens the pantry door and peruses what is available. Spying the box of graham crackers, he asks for one. And one for Ciárán. And Déla. And…
One morning Xavier decided he was a cat and wanted to hide under the stool like the cats sometimes do. Almost every day after school Xavier takes the lunch boxes of the three older kids and rummages through them for leftovers. This is his after school snack. Here he is with three deconstructed lunches in…
I’ve been to Chuck E. Cheese’s twice in the last couple of weeks. Two different locations even. Let’s face it, if it weren’t for birthday parties, this franchise would have shut down decades ago. Both times I went were for birthday parties. Actually, I don’t know if I’ve ever been to Chuck E. Cheese’s without…