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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...

Home by Oh, The Joys on Jul 1, 2009"I want to go home!!!" she wails.It doesn't matter.We can be at THE MOST FUN PLACE IN THE WORLDVIEW OF ALL THREE YEAR OLDS and if things don't go her way, we hear it..."I want to go home!"[Accompanied by a great and tragic wailing.]Lately she's start...

The Devil's Punchbowl by Oh, The Joys on Jun 28, 2009My heart raced.I regularly suffered from anxiety that something bad would happen to Joseph, that I’d be widowed young.It scared me that I thought those things, but as I went to the phone, the pounding in my chest got stronger.Of the few people who...

King of the Forest by Oh, The Joys on Jun 16, 2009It was a glorious summer day in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Late August, I believe. I had my son slung on my back in a papoose contraption and I had my daughter slung from a sling like contraption around my chest. Together, my children weig...

Small Discovery by Oh, The Joys on May 28, 2009"C'mere!" she commanded. I followed my brother's two and a half year old daughter Kimmy to the kitchen.She pointed at the microwave. "Push the button!" she insisted. So I pushed it.As you might expect, the microwave door popped open.Kimmy's whole fac...

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.