Fork in the sand

I have been teaching Isaac to eat with a fork.

Apparently he has coupled this new skill with his sand obsession.

Today his teacher caught him outside eating a bowl full of sand with his fork.

Maybe there is some protein in sand that I am not aware of.

Only children

   

It is nice to have another friend with any only child so I can take a temporary hiatus from daydreaming about slapping other mothers around who judge you for only having one child.

Not everyone needs to be tortured by their siblings to build character.

You can have friends to do that. 

Choose your battles

We descended into the city for Isaac's cousins birthday yesterday and found ourselves at one of the quentissential American birthday parties with 4 dozen kids running around hosting their own Kentucky Derby, and pouncing on a dozen blow up amusement toys.

After the initial shock wore off from getting pounced by kids twice his age, Isaac found someone to play with.

(I am not sure if it counts as someone, since it is a plastic inanimate object, but he and his new friend were inseparable the entire party.)

Realizing that in life and especially with a toddler, you have to choose your battles, when it came time for the group photo, we found a good compromise.

Soccer

Isaac is pretty good at kicking the ball, I wonder if he will follow in my soccer footsteps. 
I was crazy about it all and our team won state 2 years in a row in 5th and 6th grade.

I wish that I had learned to use tampons then and maybe I would have been Mia Hamm's predecessor.

Sleepy or Zen Eating?