Comments on: Bruiser

By: amber

amber — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:04:10 +0000

That t-shirt is so cute (and fitting!).

By: shriek house

shriek house — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:00:13 +0000

My 3-yr-old has a matching lump (right down to size, color, AND location) he gave himself on the slide yesterday. He also seems to exactly match Dylan’s temperament, and given that he’s twice D’s age, one can conclude either A) Dylan is extremely advanced or B) my son is…uh… oh nevermind.

By: NellaBean

NellaBean — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:20:22 +0000

Thanks so much for these last couple posts (I love all your posts actually but the last couple have been right in sinc with my week). It’s SO SO nice to know I’m not alone trying to be a good parent to these loving/sucking toddlers/creatures-from-the-screamy-kicky-hell.

Everyone I know seems to be in the “oh yah, that was a tough age – heh” or “I’d never allow my baby to be anything but the perfect angel” camps. I love how you describe perfectly the hair pulling agony alongside the wonderfulness that is these little people.

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:41:17 +0000

Man, those goose eggs pop up on baby-heads in SECONDS, just like in the cartoons. My kid is the same way.

LOVE how he’s sucking on the consolation bottle like a big ol’ stogie.

By: jakesmom

jakesmom — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:13:44 +0000

I have a sympathy headache looking at Dylan’s boo boo!

By: Red

Red — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:13:45 +0000

Oh, and the snuggling! How could i forget that? the. best. after a really shitty day, too. My fave is when he hikes his butt up in the air and tucks his hands and legs under himself when he sleeps sometimes.

By: Red

Red — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:22 +0000

Thank Gawd the little badgers heal quickly! Mine took a splat on the cement paving stones outside the other week and had a bruiser like that for about 2 days. I can still remember the fleshy thump.
Mine is also Mama-velcro. I feel really bad about that sometimes, but I’m also 99% sure the next one will be all Daddy’s or at least more so, and I know that a day will come when boy #1 will decide he wants his Dah-DAHH! more (sometimes). Heck, he already SAYS Dadda, but only once in a blue moon says Mamma. Will say Dadda right to my face, but not Mom, Mommy or Mamma. But, I figure that is only fair all things considered!

By: TheGoriWife

TheGoriWife — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:57:41 +0000

Aww. My baby is not much of a snuggler. Unless he has a fever, and then he’s VERY content to snuggle all day long. We actually enjoy when the baby gets sick because we all spend the day just trading the baby back and forth for snuggles. “You’ve had him for almost an hour – it’s my turn!”

By: Mama Bub

Mama Bub — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:39:42 +0000

I think we’re on the downside of a fierce daddy preference over here. Every once in a while he’ll deign to allow me to get him from a nap or buckle him into the car seat. But, if both of us are gone for more than five minutes, he pushes me out of the way to get to daddy. Way to kick mommy in the balls, kid.

By: Sara

Sara — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:39:11 +0000

I KNOW THE PAIN.

Except my kid acted as though I beat the sit out of him as soon as we left papaw’s house every single time I picked him up from a visit. And still DAYS later would go on and on about papaw. Also at 2 to 2.5 years old. I thought for sure I’d die! My poor broken heart. Also I might have once said “FOR GODS SAKES DYLAN IF YOU KEEP THIS UP YOU CAN”T GO STAY WITH PAPAW AGAIN!”

He still loves his papaw. He just loves me now too. It’s nice! lol.