Zip It Good

Mister Finn has been talking a lot about zippers lately, except he says zippet instead of zipper. I started singing him Push It by Salt-n-Pepa, except instead of “Push It” of course we both say “Zip It.” He zips my sweatshirt up and down and says “Oh, zip it.”  I say “Zip it good.”  And [...]

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It’s in the Intonation

I say to Mister Finn, “I love you.”  And he says, “I la la.”

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Favorite Things, #2: Hands Like Birds

Especially while nursing, A.’s hands flutter like gentle birds. They rest, alight, make sudden yet graceful paths through the air, rest.  I say, “Lemme kiss your birds!”  And then I kiss kiss kiss kiss these little hands like birds.

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Favorite Things, #1: Milky Nursling

I love it when A. is nursing contentedly and then bobs off in a stupor, with milk on his lips and in the corners of his mouth, and dribbling down his face.  Then the singing begins.    

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