January 24, 2012

OTT

Halfway through kindergarten, Chipmunk is doing over the top super well. I’ve gone on a couple of fieldtrips with him. On the first, he didn’t interact with kids, but he pointed at what they were doing and told me they were his friends.

A couple of weeks ago, we went on another, and when [...]

January 21, 2012

Bad Dreams

Lately, Chipmunk has been telling me about a lot of bad dreams he has.  The one before this one involved going to a new school where no one knew him, running away through traffic and up a magical staircase, and onto a playground that ran out of ways to get down and became very [...]

January 2, 2012

Peanut Perspective

Now that Chipmunk is halfway through Kindergarten, I have a lot of conversations with him about stuff I only imagined asking him about two or three years ago.  The other night, we hunkered down for a “cuddle nap” while his little brother napped.  I curled up around him and asked, “How does it feel [...]