Blogs Posts on "The Mayor"

Obligatory Postween Photos by Oh, The Joys on Nov 1, 2009Between the Halloween Candy Buy Back Program and the age-old Inter-Sibling Trade Negotiations, I had an hour off this morning!There must be something wrong with my children though... all the chocolate candy is in the bag for the soldiers and they on...

Trigger by Oh, The Joys on Oct 26, 2009Last Friday I took The Mayor for a hearing test.It's been eight months since his ear surgery and despite the slicing and peeling off of the ear, problems persist.The Mayor's ear drum is retracting again and the ear is filled with fluid.His hearing te...

Call of the Wild by Oh, The Joys on Oct 21, 2009On the walk to school today, The Mayor took to talking back to the noisy birds in the trees. Only after testing a few different sounds did he settle on a high-pitched shriek, fairly unlike the bird sounds he and his father heard around them. He would...

A Guy Walks Into A Bar by Oh, The Joys on Sep 16, 2009The Mayor, who is five, is currently going through the (widely studied) "Catskills" phase of his early childhood development.Oh, the jokes. [Oy, the jokes.]Last night at dinner, he told the same (long), (unfunny), (obscure) joke three times.With each...

Ask For What You Need by Oh, The Joys on Aug 28, 2009My children were picking on each other at breakfast the other day.[Because every day is the same.]I interrupted them and asked WHY they fought so incessantly.In response, they simply accused each other of being annoying.[Oh, struggle of struggles!]"M...

Food Chain by Oh, The Joys on Aug 22, 2009At dinner the other night, The Rooster discussed her day at pre-school.She led us through a list of proposed names for class pet hermit crab and we weighed the merits of each proposal."Joseph suggested Hermie," she told us.[Oh, the original!]The Mayo...

I Forgot to Tell You Something Last Easter... by Oh, The Joys on Jul 21, 2009As I mentioned, we went to church for the first time in over a year last Sunday.The children pointed at the stained glass windows in recognition and elatedly remarked,"Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus!"[They know all about Joseph, Mary and Baby Jesus beca...

Baaaa-d Catholics by Oh, The Joys on Jul 19, 2009The Mayor and The Rooster, under the influence of peer pressure from their short and loud, southern, church going, tiny friends, came home this week and complained that their father and I actively deny them the experience of going to church."You NEVE...

Thump and Pummel by Oh, The Joys on Jun 8, 2009The other morning at summer camp, The Mayor greeted another boy with a chest thump.The two of them actually jumped into the air and bumped into each other, on purpose, chest first.This was a greeting.[Odd animals, these things called boys.]Similarly,...

Light Bulb by Oh, The Joys on Apr 28, 2009At The Mayor's parent-teacher conference tonight, his teacher told us about a recent assignment."I asked the children in the class what they would do if they were president," she said.""One child told me that if he were President he would wear a hat.