I’m feeding the baby on the couch. Tristan and Simon are playing upstairs. Tristan calls down.<\/p>\n
“Mom!” he bellows, coming down the stairs. “I need some red fabric.” I marvel for a minute that he knows a word like ‘fabric’ before replying.<\/p>\n
“Well, there’s a red polar fleece blanket in Lucas’s closet, but it has teddy bears on it.”<\/p>\n
“No, that’s no good,” he says. <\/p>\n
“What do you need it for?” I ask.<\/p>\n
“Brownie needs a superhero cape,” he replies. Brownie is his Webkinz doggie.<\/p>\n
“Just use the superman cape that’s on your jammies,” I suggest.<\/p>\n
“No, I looked for it but it’s in the dirty clothes hamper,” he whines. I’m mildly surprised that that stopped him, but shrug.<\/p>\n
“Sorry, buddy, I can’t think of anything else we’d have that might work.”<\/p>\n
“Well,” he says, a little petulantly, “can’t you just knit some or something?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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