Leather Daddy Piglet

Well, no need for Choose Your Own Adventure parenting this week. Jason sailed through his activities - engaged, happy and energetic. Yoga class was great. He stood still in Mountain pose for 17 seconds and laid down, doing deep breathing in corpse pose for over a minute (yes, I did time it). He also assured his yoga teacher that was going to "practice relaxing at home". We also just returned from Sporty Kids, where he had a blast working on his golf technique.

I had a lot of pain in my back this week which has led to the discovery of laying around, reading and watching daytime television this week. And while my projects go unfinished and I have to ask Heather for more help in the evenings, I must say it is a relaxing lifestyle option!

I went out last night to see a trans/queer stand up comedian. My life of queer activism and parenting colided as the comic used stuffed animals to act out a queer community meeting ("Leather Daddy Piglet"; a dog who identied as a"furry" because he liked to dress up as a seal; dominatrix Hello Kitty). Of course the stuffed animals were lent voices in the comic sketch, which is exactly what Jason really enjoys right now. Usually when he asks you to come and play cars right now, it is not the person he wants but rather someone to give voice to his teddy bear. On one hand, I do regret ever starting this but on the otyher, it was little brown teddy who coaxed Jason to eat lunch today. Nonetheless, I was vaguely uncomfortable last night noting how crazy talking stuffed animals looked.