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Well here’s my very first “regular” blog post!  I think I’ll start things off nice and easy, with a little look into our family.

I guess first of all, I should come up with cute nicknames for my kids… I have observed that most ‘family’ bloggers refer to their kids as “Little Fish” or “Peanut” or “Pumpkin”, in order to maintain a certain sense of privacy.   Let’s see…

My 10-year-old son is energetic, hyperactive, distractible.  He’s quick to temper and prone to selfishness.  Yet he’s also a gentle soul who likes soft and cuddly things, he’s gregarious and kind to his friends, always laughing and full of jokes.  We think he has sensory issues and he has trouble sleeping.  He’s moderately gifted, but lazy.  He can build the most astonishing Lego creations, he will draw amazing pictures endlessly, he loves to read.  He loves the blues, idolizes Stevie Ray Vaughn, and is a master of Guitar Hero.  He has a junior black belt in karate and is now in Tae Kwon Do.  He’s a competitive gymnast.  He’s never been to school and has no interest right now in ever going.  He asks hard questions about life and fairness, and seems to alternate between the maturity of a grownup and a 4-year-old.  He has two main goals in life — to be a guitarist in a band, and to be a marine biologist.  He especially adores whales and dolphins, but is already an expert on anything under the sea.   Even his bedroom has an undersea theme, and he won’t eat fish because it makes him sad.

So then… he is “Flipper”.

Now my daughter is quite a different creature.  She will be two years old next week.  Her favourite things to talk about are shoes, cats, fish, dogs, cars, and colours.  She’s viciously independent, insists on doing things by herself, and insists on ‘helping’ mommy in the kitchen, with cooking, doing dishes, as well as other chores like doing the laundry and taking out the garbage.  She can be very loud and cantankerous, like any toddler, but on the whole, she’s actually fairly reserved, quiet, calm, and serious.  She was never “diaper-trained” and is now a “graduate”, virtually potty-independent.  She did “baby-led solids” and her favourite food is spicy Indian curry.  And potato chips.  Apples and bananas and pomegranates.  And, of course, mommy milk!  She is the most beautiful baby you’ve ever seen, she looks like a porcelain doll.  She’s surprisingly petite given her parents… She’s the apple of her daddy’s eye.  Hm.  And her favourite undies are the ones with the apple on them, which she calls “apple bum”.

Maybe she can be “Apple”.  Not to be confused with Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow’s cute little girl of the same name…  No, even better.  She’ll be “Pomme”, like her yummy pomegranates (the word means “seeded apple,” by the way), and since I’m bilingual and we’re trying to work on French… and it just seems a wee bit classier.

So there we have it.  My bouncy, friendly, confusing Flipper, and my rosy, sweet and colourful Pomme.

           

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