My Piggy
My Piggy “What’s for the snack sack today?” “My piggy?” He was referring to his Angry Birds King Pig piggy bank. He broke the crown off of it yesterday. We glued it back on and...
Snack Sack
Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center “What’s for the snack sack today?” I asked as I do every morning. “An airport?” he asked with some hesitation. “Um, we’ve already done an airport,” I reminded him. “Rockefeller Center,” he said...
A Map of the Whole World
A Map of the Whole World “What’s for the snack sack today?” “I’m out of ideas.” “What!? There are a million ideas. All you have to do is think of a category.” Before I had...
A Bread Machine
A Bread Machine “A machine.” “We’ve already done a machine. You have to be more specific.” “Like a bread machine or something.” “We’ve already done a bread machine.” “No, that was a bread factory.” “Well...
A Little Birdie
A Little Birdie “What’s for the snack sack today?” “A little birdie.” “Okay,” I said as I ran a search and handed him my iPhone. “I wanted a real bird,” he complained after a minute...
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly Today is the Fun Run at school and Victor came downstairs wearing his special Fun Run t-shirt. It had a large imprint of his elementary school mascot, the monarch butterfly. He liked the...
A Robot
A Robot “What’s for the snack sack today?” I asked him. “Let’s see,” he said contemplatively, “a machine!” “What kind of machine?” “Um, no. A robot!” “Okay.” I searched for robots and handed him my...
Snowboarder Guy
Snowboarder Guy We spent last week at Mammoth Mountain. I skied for the first time in over 20 years and he snowboarded for the first time ever. He really wanted to try snowboarding, but after...
Skippyjon Jones
Skippyjon Jones We had forgotten that he had suggested we do Skippyjon Jones a few days ago after reading one of the funny books in the series. I reminded him this morning. “Okay, yeah!” he...
I Love You…This Much
I Love You…This Much “How about something Valentine’s-y?” I asked him. “Sure,” he said but he didn’t have any ideas. On the kitchen table was a cute art project he brought home yesterday. It had...