who the hell is this guy?
You know sometimes you look at your kid or a kid that you know or are close to and you suddenly think, “When the hell did this happen?” I mean, LOOK at him. He’s all tall and lanky and looking like…a DUDE.
Let me do something really terrible and show you the picture that I took of him on his first day of preschool back in 2004.
It's blurry because I was sobbing.
Back then, he was all sweet and squishy and rode in his backpack carrier on the bus with me to his little school. And he did this cute little overbite thing whenever he would call me “Mum.”
Now he dishes with his teachers about A Tribe Called Quest and places bets with them on the NBA championship (he lost, had to write a book report). He groans at me when I drag him out of bed in the morning. He rolls his eyes and melodramatically declares, “I hate my life,” when he doesn’t get his way.
But he also does cute and funny and sweet things from time to time. Like the other morning when he climbed into bed with me for a few minutes, looked at me with those sapphire eyes, and said, “You’re awesome.” And the other day when he saw a police car and mistakenly said, “Nine Oh!” instead of “Five Oh.”
He finished second grade on Wednesday. I need a drink.
June 18th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
still one of the coolest kids i’ve ever met.
and those kicks he’s rockin’ are pretty damn sweet!
June 18th, 2010 at 12:33 pm
How do we make it stop? I mean, really. MAKE IT STOP. Even if just for a second.
June 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
WHAT IS THIS GIANT MAN
June 18th, 2010 at 6:40 pm
Wow, he really is getting big. He looks so much like you and Tom. When you write about him, I totally think “I was never that cool as a kid, hell I don’t even know if I’m that cool NOW.”
June 18th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
My girls finished second grade Wednesday too. Brutal. I keep trying to think of something eloquent to say about it but am too busy mourning.
June 19th, 2010 at 3:01 am
CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE KID. you did a good job. our kid just graduated from eighth grade today. watch out high school, here we f-ing come! (weeping) you’ll be in the same position before you know it.
June 19th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Wait, WHAT?! Seriously, when did that happen?
June 21st, 2010 at 11:20 am
Oh my goodness. Take heart, because while the top half of that photo is all DUDE, the bottom half — with those adorable freaking skinny legs — is all KID.
(“Nine-oh!” Hilarious.)
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:45 am
He is one seriously cute dude!
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:17 am
You call that child, the baby?