W00t!! TheBigE as Link from Legend of Zelda

Pumpkins! Yay...Pumpkins!!!!

How to Camp-Out in Your Living Room

1. Clear carpet of any miscellaneous lego pieces/pinecones/rocks
2. Forgo the tent
3. MacGuyver your couch cushins into a comfortable on-the-floor backrest
4. Install pillows, Thermarest pads, and sleeping bags in the appropriate places adjacent to your backrest.
5. Snack in your bag without worrying about bears
6. Watch Dragons: Fire & Ice with your boy. He'll be convinced it dosen't get any better than this.
7. Watch Mars twinkling out your picture window
8. Wake up in the morning to a deleriously happy kiddo who wants to always sleep in the living room:-)

Growing up

Bathtime is usually an opportunity for Battle of the Wills. The other night, I started the water and then gave E his transitional 5 minute warning regarding the impending Bath of Doom. Next thing we know, there is an alien splashing noise emanating from the bathroom.

MyFavHuman: Did you put E in the tub?
Me: No, did you?
MyFavHuman: Umm...no.

He just up and hopped in the tub, adjusted the temperature to his liking and got on with the business of getting clean.

Lexicon: TheBigESpeak_1

TheBigE has a rich and far-ranging vocabulary, however he still retains some humorous pronounciation holdovers from having been trached and battling chronic sinus infections. This is the beginning of a compilation of our favorites:-)


The Grabbling Hook: [noun] a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding;often thrown with a rope [source: WordNet (r) 1.7][usage] "Look at that cool GI Joe grabbling hook! If I had one of those for reals, I would play with it all the time!"

Twinkerbell:
Mischivous pixe renown for misbehaving. First appeared in Barrie's Peter Pan, presently can be found strafing Disneyland with fairy dust. [usage] "Do you remember in Peter Pan when that Twinkerbell got those boys that were lost to shoot Wendy? How did she do that??"

Wondermarks

Last year, working on a story with TheBigE:

TheBigE: I think I need to put a wondermark.
Mom: A what?
TheBigE: You know...a wondermark. Because I'm wondering something in this part.
Mom: Hmmmm...do you mean a question mark, like this? [squiggles mark on page]
TheBigE: A what?
Mom: Question mark.
TheBigE: Oh. Um, yeah...but I like wondermark better.

Revisiting Sanity

My blog CheckYourBaggage deals with the traumatic crap that comes with having a completly perfect kid who happens to have a disability. I really need to vent and it's great for that.

Sometimes you get so buried in crisis that it's hard to remember the good times that kept you sane. That's what this is for. A little vacation for the stress monkey.