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Cuddle power 1 Mar 2011 | 03:50 pm
Alex has had asthma over the last few nights, and for the first couple of nights before the medication kicked in, he coughed all night, keeping any of us from getting much rest. There wasn't much I co...
Junior barrister-in-training 21 Feb 2011 | 03:01 pm
Alex was originally supposed to be going off to kindergarten this year, but it didn't quite work out that way. The short story is - the orientation provoked an extreme reaction that resulted in our do...
Santa Claus and all that BS 1 Dec 2010 | 11:15 pm
Alex seems to oscillate between getting really into the whole Santa deal and asking pointy questions poking holes in the logic of the whole charade. Example 1 Alex, after being told by some well-wis...
The meaning is clear 21 Oct 2010 | 10:28 pm
Tonight I got an explanation from Alex about what Uncle Ben meant when he said "With great power comes great responsibility." It means: "You need to help people and share things and not be a thieve."...
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility 18 Oct 2010 | 03:46 pm
Alex hasn't watched the M-rated Spiderman for about 6 months. We had let him watch bits of it under supervision for a while, but the boundaries kept getting pushed back and it became a bit hard to pol...
Master negotiator 24 Sep 2010 | 11:22 am
This morning Alex had two pieces of toast with honey for breakfast. Then he asked for a bowl of Weet Bix. One bite into the Weet Bix and he wanted two more pieces of toast. I was reluctant to make the...
Evidence-based approach 24 Sep 2010 | 11:16 am
Alex is nothing if not concrete in his thinking. After breaking his leg and having it in a CAM boot for 3 weeks, I told him that he could bear weight on it as long as it was comfortable, enough to mov...
Transformers defy logic - who knew? 24 Sep 2010 | 11:12 am
Alex often contemplates the many absurdities of life, and, in his own time, poses a question aloud to which there really is no sensible answer. Most recently, it was: "When a Transformer is a car, it...
A for effort 5 Aug 2010 | 12:07 am
Sometimes I wonder whether I overdo the praise. Alex and Maya had been colouring in. Alex, in his usual focussed style, had worked hard to get the colours correct and all his colouring in the lines. ...
The Interview That Made Me Come Out Of Blogging Retirement 21 Jul 2010 | 10:38 pm
When I saw the hilarious results of this interview on Bern Morley and the other greatfunnywonderful blogs (Jodie and Thea), I couldn't resist doing my own. It's kind of like the best kind of blog chai...
