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By briantologist | July 11, 2007
Dear Henry,
OMG you are totally two years old, except I don’t see how that can be, since you were born like a week and a half ago.
You’re so grown up! You walk around and play with trucks and say all kinds of stuff, like the word “sprinkling,” which is our unanimous parental favorite word in your vocabulary! You ask for me to read you specific books, and turn down others flatly! (“You wanna read ‘Brown Bear’?” “No. No Brown Bear.”) You have tiny little day care friends, one of whom is even named Nate(!)! And you have yet to seriously injure yourself while eating with a fork, which is A) excellent progress, and B) more than I, personally, can say for my own self.
Yes, yes, you’ve also learned how to throw horrific, screeching fits for no readily apparent reason. And yes, I expect they’ll continue for kind of a while. But whatever, you’re the very best thing that ever happened to your mom and me, and while I know our lives would not actually be meaningless if we didn’t have you, I can’t for the life of me think what that meaning would be. You’re the apple of our eye, the pain in our asses, and the mustard on our collective bratwurst. We love you, and love you, and love you so much we can’t even take it. Happy birthday, tiny man.
love,
your purnts
Topics: Stuff | 17 Comments »
July 11th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Hey, kids – take it from an old experienced mother and grandmother – the much fabled “terrible twos” only last from 1 1/2 to 2 1/2. You’re on the downward slide. In about six months, Henry will turn back into the fulltime sweetie you once knew. Or your money back.
July 11th, 2007 at 11:34 am
That totally made me tear up.
Happy Birthday Henry!
July 11th, 2007 at 11:47 am
I have tears in my eyes too & am now dying for a baby. Great. I was supposed to wait until 2008 but now I’m wondering if I could just flush my pills down the loo & my husband wouldn’t notice & BAM WOW now I’m preggers – that was quite an accident now, wasn’t it?
July 11th, 2007 at 11:48 am
OH & I have another friend who just had a baby last night July 10 at 11.55. In Boston. Happy Birthday to both of you!
July 11th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
About a year ago I was reading some anti-breeding/child-free news board. Why, I can’t say. i guess I found the vitriol scary and fascinating. Including calling kids “c*nt nuggets.” I guess you have to do it, to get it.
(Oh, and we purchased Beck one of those PETA chick “I am not a nugget!” t-shirts. It makes us laugh, anyway.)
July 11th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
What they don’t tell ya is that 3 is even harder! wha?
sheesh, the things they never tell ya
July 12th, 2007 at 5:54 am
Happy Birthday Henry! This was very sweet. He sounds like a definite keeper.
July 12th, 2007 at 5:56 am
Oh, and Sophie could break windows with her occasional, out-of-nowhere, screaming fits. They are extremely impressive. I have to stop myself from giving her high-fives afterwards.
July 12th, 2007 at 7:44 am
Yay for Henry Guy! My July Birthday Brother!
You made an awesome person. I hope you are psyched.
xoxox.
July 12th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
Happy birthday, Bean. xxo.
July 12th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Awww…Happy Birthday Henry! Sprinkling! Wow! My little girl just turned one and can say “apple” and “good girl” and “uh oh.” But gerunds are taking things to a whole new level.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Happy Birthday to the Henry Guy! The world is lucky to have him.
July 23rd, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Aw, how sweet! And, believe it or not, life gets more fun… or at least until he wants to borrow the car. I taught preschool for a few years and the things I learned are 1) Terrible Twos only apply to parents (I’ll bet he’s a peach at school) and 2) an inquisitive 3 year old is the best thing in the world. Just wait.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
happy birthday, beans!
i can’t believe mia is about to be 5. and that she’s still having fits.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:37 am
gracious. that made me cry happy tears.
August 21st, 2007 at 9:32 am
Wonderful post. You should save that for the kiddo and give it to him when he’s got a two-year-old.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
oh my god. my kiddo turns two in a little over a month and i am already paralyzed by the thought of having to summarize his little two-year-old self in a sweet little blog post. i think i might just copy and paste yours into my blog, kay? except maybe with a different word than “sprinkling” because my kiddo can’t say that one yet.
hmm…