Nana is a trickster

A risky game.

Been playing wtih this all week.

Silhouette

Some things might be more fun for the grown ups

Had a lovely visit with Grandma.  Saw Santa opened gifts and otherwise had a great time.  The carousel was downtown...he really wasn't as into it as we were.

butt

Wha happened?

Come back

Grandma

Leaning Tower

His cousins made him this, specifically so that he would knock it down.  Apparently, it took an hour before he would even deign to TOUCH it. 

Golden

mmmmm

Dude.

Ready

More prep work

preparation

911 in your town

Well, my mother's town.  Lloyd called 911 VERY EARLY the Sunday morning of his baptism.  As you can see, the officer was very upset.

Hay, not just for horses.

I wish he would go in there

Corn maze

Caught in his web

Cousins on the run

Bad day

Yeah, that's my babies blood on Daddies shirt.

Well done Daddy.

Island dirt

cake

Mommy won't hem my pants.

Foot cream and a shoe - an hour of fun

Harold from Accounting

It wasn't me

Baby box

Home sick...

Cagey

We no longer enjoy bathtime

Who's more stressed out here? 

It was really quiet for a minute there...

Stairs! There's STAIRS here!

Yep, that's what we're into at the park these days.

What baby? Where?

Curls

Lloyd Walks

So like, he's walked more than this but like ghost hunters, we just can't seem to get it on tape.  It's proofy though?

Chewing, a lesson for tomorrow.

Still reluctant to RIDE the car

Pataidas

Sand

Island weekend

Summertime Stan

Every summer, Stan goes through an ‘I’m a feral cat and I don’t need no nothing from those broke ass humans,  I can live by my wits in the wild.'   On or about day four, he abandons his authentic feral cat routine and books a couple nights in a B&B.  After a fourteen hour sleep in our bed he heads back to the wild.

Swinger

Thank the lord

for these SPF top things. Most things you do or don't do to your children are rife with controversy.  The sunscreen thing is frustrating.  Skin cancer or have the nugget grow a little debbie on his forehead.  
Which will require more therapy? 

Cape Cod

Baby loves the beach.

Bestest place in the world

Delighted

Delighted to have daddy spray him with the hose...boys.

Sometimes it's hard...

 

During our twenties, my girlfriends and I would sit Shiva in smoky coffee houses and loudly proclaim the death of gender stereotypes.  Gender differences were mythological principles a patriarchal society had used to ensure that women would remain powerless.  Men and women were the SAME!  We were all capable of corporate or parental greatness!  Nature had nothing to do with it! 

I got older.  I got married.  My girlfriends got married or shacked up, most of em with men.  It took some time for us to admit the truth.  We knew it long before we said anything out loud, but we know now that men and women are very different.  To encapsulate:

Men are f**ked.

I mean, they are WEIRD.  They are not the same as us AT ALL.  The worst part of it is that men have skillfully whitewashed their true attributes.   I wish twenty year old me could dramatically light a cigarette and inhale deeply before saying the following:  The worst characteristics about men are the ones most often attributed to women.  They are sensitive, they are impulsive, and most importantly, they have no common sense.

I have proof.  My husband recently power washed our back stair case. Said stair case is narrow and steep affair (it’s like, a story high).  He started at the bottom and then perched precariously in his crocs (best shoes possible for wet slippery work) at the top of the stairs.  OF COURSE he fell.   I was away for the night visiting one of the grandmothers and would not return unit the following day to find the body.  He’s alright but check out his ass in the attached photo.

A woman would never do this.  A woman would recognize that having a clean back porch was not worth her life.  

Porch looks nice though.