A quick update. Yesterday Simon successfully nursed at 8:00 a.m. and then again at noon, but took a bottle at 3:00 p.m. when I couldn’t get things to work and he was getting hysterical. At around 6:30 p.m. I succeeded again, then again at 11:30 p.m. , 2:00 a.m., 4:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m., and 10:30 […]
Monthly Archive for May, 2007
After 32 mostly uneventful weeks of nursing, I have hit a wall. And I’m panicked. Simon began teething a few weeks ago, a fact I confirmed last week on vacation when he once bit me during a nursing session. He had been drooling for ages, so we weren’t sure when teeth would actually erupt. The […]
Now’s the time I finally get to the title for this little series. A Sort of Homecoming: In 2005/6, I made it the Bay Area three times: for a November trip six months after my move back to Kentucky, for RSA 2006 in February, and then again last May. Each time, I felt very much […]
My Son the Flirt: I’ve known for some time that Simon is a pretty social kid. The first signs came at Chanukah this year, when Simon stayed up for far too many hours enjoying all the Goldstein kids, only to come home and have an inevitable breakdown from fatigue. The same cycle repeated itself again […]
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Lesson Number One about traveling with an infant: Give yourself mounds of time. Our plane ride to Oakland last week was much more stress filled than it needed to be, and in large part that was because we just didn’t understand how much longer everything would take with an infant along […]
Well, it’s been a pretty horrific few days over here, and tomorrow we test fate and take Simon on his first plane ride. Wish us luck! Matt’s been working crazy hours — in fact, he’s working into the wee hours tonight — and Simon chose today of all days to not sleep. He woke up […]
Fear and Loathing in TV Land
Posted in Jessica on May 17th, 2007
I realize that an obnoxious trait in the new parent is to suddenly feel like you are an expert in children based on your newfound experience with a single child. I really do understand how annoying and misguided that is. But I’m thinking that perhaps you don’t have to know very much about kids to […]
Preschool!
Posted in Baby!, Jessica, KIP (Preschool) on May 15th, 2007
Last week I pre-registered Simon for preschool. Isn’t that hilarious? He’s seven months tomorrow and has only been sitting up for three weeks, but soon his name will be on a list of those entering Keneseth Israel’s 18-month old program beginning in August 2008. What’s more, I plan on doing the same at my second […]
Today is my first Mother’s Day, and in some respects, I still don’t feel like a real mom. With Simon being so young, I haven’t had to treat a skinned knee, lower a fever, soothe hurt feelings, or help with homework. Nor have I argued with Simon over where he can go, how much he […]
We’re now four weeks into solid food, and the culinary adventure is beginning to be fun even as it gets to be more challenging and even a little political. Like 99% of parents in America, we started with boring rice cereal from a box, step one in a strict progression ordered by the pediatrician. It […]