Mr. Crowder
For the first time today, I addressed my son as Mr. Crowder. Ollie, Reid and I were playing “school” today, with Ollie as the teacher. Ollie taught us about the “kicking the baby into the net” (a nearby soccer-ball became a baby, I have no idea what the net was represented by), the “special star” (an old Christmas-tree topper, Mickey Mouse climbing up to a star) and how it should never be hit because it’s special and brand-new, and about kicking fire-engines into the couch. Our teacher was Mr. Crowder.