tonight the oldest onyxlet wrote her very first letter. To gher granddad (my dad). letter said:
"I love You. I like to see you. Love Noelle"
en: handdrawn picture of Granddad and female child. I was so proud of her. She spelled all the words right and only needed help with 'you'.
mommyhood...sometimes it's just worth it.
Hey there onyx! Good to see you.
It is, ain't it? And they seem to come up with the disarming stuff right when steam is starting to come out of your ears...
That's so cool about writing it all herself. And I'm sure your dad will be thrilled to get it.
Aww, to both onyx and soz... oh well, never mind.
Hi Onyx!
(smiles after reading both new stories)
I sent my brother the story about my son calling my daughter an insect ( because she had six pigtails ) and he sent me one back. Apparently, my precious little 2-year old neice was a little hyper and one of her other relatives said, "you're such a cute little weirdo" and she said, "I'm not a weirdo, I'm a dumbass!"
He swears he's never called her that.
hey all. wonderful story freeduck...i'll post one from about a year ago shortly (back to work now)
Looking forward to it Onyx (cool new avatar.)
LOVED weirdo story heh!!
This one's not really here nor there, not comic nor tragic, just interesting:
Sozlet's been having major problems with ear infections since she started preschool. Went to ENT yesterday, long story but pertinent part is that she currently has a 40 db loss, almost certainly temporary due to fluid in her middle ear which hasn't yet re-absorbed from last ear infection. (Eardrum can't move as it ought, small bones that convey sound can't move as they ought.)
A while ago, as we were getting ready for bed, she said cheerily enough, "when I grow up, I might be deaf." I said hmm, it's possible, but probably not. What happened to me was very very unusual. She persisted, "but I MIGHT be." I said well maybe, but really it's very unlikely, and she wasn't really reacting the way I expected -- she seemed to be angling for me saying yes, she might become deaf. So I said, "What would you think if you did become deaf?" She said, "Oh, it would be fine!"
Yesterday, the ENT doctor was at first confused about whether the interpreter was for me, sozlet, or both, and asked me, "is she deaf?" I started to answer and then instead asked sozlet (with voice), "are you deaf?" She piped up with, "hmm, a little bit! <big grin>" I think the doc was rather taken aback by a) her flawless enunciation belying the words and b) her attitude. I think he usually sees people who are a little bit more bummed about not being able to hear. ;-)
I do want to talk to her about it being OK to be bummed, though, we have before but she could maybe use a refresher. 40 db is not insignificant.
I think that's a pretty cute story. It sort of reminds me of a thought I had the other day. My ducklet said something about her hair being just like mine. It isn't, really, but it is like mine in the sense that her brother and father have very different hair from both of us. But it struck me, uncomfortably, that I am the female role model in her life. And I was sort of horrified. Don't ask me why I never thought of that before or who I thought would be her female role model. It just struck me how I see her as someone who will grow up to be nothing like (read better than) me, but didn't comprehend that she will model herself after me, at least in the beginning. I'm still not quite comfortable with that.
And I have no idea why that cute story made me think of that.
Oh I had a paragraph about just that that I took out because it didn't really fit. But yeah that same thing, I'm her role model, I'm deaf, therefore being deaf is good. Er.
Makes me worry about the backlash later, part of why I want to get in the "it's not so bad as all that but I wouldn't quite say it's GOOD" stuff now.
I did like the us gals vs. bewildered doctor aspect. :-) I always hated when the docs would ask my mom something that I could answer.
FreeDuck wrote:It isn't, really, but it is like mine in the sense that her brother and father have very different hair from both of us. But it struck me, uncomfortably, that I am the female role model in her life.
Free Duck is a woman!
Now how come I've always thought she was a guy?
oh ... just wait til they hit their early teens - when nothing you do or say is right!
Thankfully they come out the other side but that bit is tough!
I was undercover in the politics forum for a while. My cover got blown so now I can post freely as my female self. I don't exactly correct people, though, if they use the male pronoun for me.
I thought so for a long time too! :-) She "came out" only fairly recently. And I'm glad too, love having her input on the parenting threads.
Vivien, I know, I know... gack...
Thanks, soz, for that compliment. It goes both ways.
Since we're talking politics (OK we're not but it's an excuse), the other night E.G. and I were talking and Watergate came up (forget why) and she said, "What's Watergate?" I said well, it was when a president did some bad things to try to get re-elected. She nodded sagely and said, "Oh, like George Bush!"
Heh.
YAY soz and sozlet. Sozlet for president in 30 years!!!
