Grown up

Grown up

Joseph, you look older today, more grown up! Well, yeah I guess, except for the fact that I’m wearing a t-shirt with a robot riding a dinosaur. 
Backup Shirt

Backup Shirt

Me: Joseph, you can’t wear that green Minecraft shirt again. Joseph: No problem, that’s why I brought down a backup! (He takes off the green shirt and unfolds the yellow one he knows will pass.) I know you too well, mom.
Luxury

Luxury

Joseph and I were walking through a parking lot and one of these bad boys pulls into a handicapped spot. “Whoa!” Joseph says. “Check out that car! What do you call those?” It is like the maroon Buick Century we had when I was young, with the...
Feeling Kind of Beige

Feeling Kind of Beige

J: Mom, which of these would you say is more beige? (He shows me two blue crayons. He is coloring in squares of math problems on a bunch of pages that you put together to form one big image.) Me: Neither.  J: What?  Me: Those are blue. Beige is a light...

A Tough IrrigationĀ 

I turned on a light above Annika. Joseph says: It looks like you’re about to irrigate her! Me: Irrigate? Do you know what that means? J: Yes. That would be a man made system of water delivery. Yeah, that’s not what I meant… wait… interrogate!...