1 inch in 4 months

Or, why my son eats ALL the time!

Lipstick on a pig

Mom: Here buddy, you'll like this.
Hotrod: What is it?
Mom: Try it, you'll like it.
Hotrod: It looks like a pretzel.
Mom: It is, but it has a candy coating.
Hotrod: I don't like pretzels.
Mom: See the red and green stripes? Like a candy cane. It tastes just like candy.Try it.
Hotrod: But it's a pretzel. Yuck, it's a pretzel.

I guess it doesn't matter how you dress up the pretzel, it's still a pretzel to a 4 yearold.

It's official

It happened. I didn't think it really would, but it did. I was offered partnership at the firm and I accepted. First female partner here. Youngest by about 15 years. Am I up for the challenge? We'll see.

Obama

Congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama. May the Lord grant you wisdom, protection and courage in everything you do.

So true

I'm sure my kids think this all the time:

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

HT to Quotes of the Day

Wrongheaded

Where have we come as a nation when you read something like this and the writer is happy about it?

“All the anti-abortion ballot measures failed and progressive legislation like animal rights in California passed.”

When will caring for the unborn be considered "progressive"?

Voice of the Day

Courtesy of Sojourners and appropriate during this election season--

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

Hotrod-isms

My soon to be 4 year-old son, "Hotrod", has a very engaging smile and wit. His wording of questions and insights delights me. A few examples--

Princess (his older sister - age 7): Do you want fruit punch for your birthday party, Hotrod?
Hotrod: Yeah, that'd be good. [Leaning conspiratorially towards me] Mom, you be the fruit and I'll be the punch! [Followed by laughter at his own joke.]

Hotrod: [During a fit of stuttering] Mom, I just don't speak too good sometimes.
Mom: That's okay. Your brain is just overloading your mouth.
Hotrod: Yeah, my ideas are fighting to get out.

His sister is very perceptive as well, but not usually as verbally expressive. On Sunday, her father was reminding her that once she finished her veggies, she needed to pick up her toys.
Dad: [After several minutes.] Why haven't you finished your vegggies yet?
Princess: Because then I'll have to pick up my toys. If I don't eat my veggies, then I won't have to pick up my toys, right?
Mom: [To Dad] Well, she's figured that one out, hasn't she?