Saturday, February 25, 2012

Email

Karston has been begging me for email on his computer for almost a week, so it was time to do my research on kid email with parental controls. My short list included KIDO'Z and ZooBuh, but I settled on KOL for the sheer simplicity.

Now Karston wants to know why the emails aren't pouring in, and I didn't want to mention that his email is heavily filtered (to receive from whitelist only).

But now I know that 6-year-olds need email, and now I can describe what I do at work ("I make the networks that send email").

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Crudities

Yesterday we celebrated my paternal grandfather's 94th birthday at my uncle Shannon's house! The party was wonderful, with good company and delightful stories about my grandad! Cale kept asking silly questions, like Mommy, may I eat this broccoli? Mommy, may I eat this carrot? I was, in fact, starting to suspect that Cale's favorite part of the party was having the platter of crudities within his easy reach. (Karston ate some crackers, and thought about the noodles.)

Tonight when we asked Cale what he wanted for dinner, he said, I want to go back to the house with broccoli and carrots. I couldn't convince him that our broccoli and carrots were good enough to eat, or that my uncle might be a bit surprised to see us the following night (since he knows restaurants are generally open when we want to eat).