Parenting

There’s Nothing You Can Do, I’m Two!

 
her: Papa, I need to eat some watermelon wif some corn.
      All mixed up.
      Wif watermelon juice.
      That be yummy?
 
me: We don’t have any corn, and you ate the last of the melon.
 
her: Oh. I like ciminum wolls.
       You make some?
me: We have fresh peas from the garden. 
       Do you want some?
her: I love peanut butter.
me: How about a banana?
 
her: I love your bread.
me: Strawberries?
her: We like pizza.
me: Nori and tahini?
her: Granola.
me: (sigh) Get a bowl out.

Derek Markham

Things I dig include: simple living, natural fatherhood, attachment parenting, natural building, unassisted childbirth (homebirth), bicycles, permaculture, organic and biodynamic gardening, vegan peanut butter cookies with chocolate chips, bouldering, and the blues.