The New Drakelings blog

Welcome to the inaugural post of the new Drakelings blog. I’m hoping I’ll be able to upload some of the older posts, but basically, I’m doing this for one reason: simplicity. For years, I’ve been trying to create my kids’ entire site in iWeb, and it just isn’t working. Granted, iWeb ’09 has an essential new feature—you no longer need a .Mac account to upload only the changes to your site, instead of the whole thing—but the site is still absolutely huge, what with all the pictures and stuff. (To give you an idea, our iPhoto library is up around 80GB, these days!)

So I guess I’ll start by telling a story about last night. Leah’s friend Miranda and her little brother Jacob (who is sort of David’s friend, except for the whole “I’m only eight months old” thing) were over for a while, and we went out back, so they could play on the new swing set. As they were playing, I started talking with them about what an absolutely beautiful day it was. (I don’t remember the last time July was so comfortable—as of right now, 9:50 AM, it’s still only 67˚F! But I digress….) The following conversation ensued:

Me: “What do those clouds look like, Leah?”

Leah: “I dunno” (her favorite phrase, atm).

Me: “Well, what do you think they look like?”

Leah: “I don’t know!”

Me: “Please don’t yell. Just look. What do any of the clouds look like?”

Leah: “I… don’t… kn—oh, that one looks like a horse!” ^_^

David, on the other hand, has recently started speaking a lot more clearly: forming complete sentences, expressing what he really means, etc.. A couple of days ago, I was leaving the room after putting him down for his nap. He absolutely loves it when I sing to him before he goes to sleep, and generally requests one last song, just as I’m going out the door. On Sunday, however, he had an extremely different request:

David: “Daddy?”

Me: “Yes?”

David: (says something unintelligibly softly)

Me: “What was that?”

David: (says ostensibly the same thing, unintelligibly softly)

Me: “What do you need, bud?”

David (smiling): “Nuffin.”

…and that was that.