Today Matt witnessed Simon’s first demonstration of true fear. I was at the grocery and Matt was playing with Simon in the living room. It’s fall now, and despite it still being 80 degrees outside, certain fall-like things are beginning to happen, including various creepy crawlers trying to make a home inside our house. One […]
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
This week I’ve taken advantage of extreme ends of the shopping spectrum. On the high end, after much thinking, planning, wanting, wavering, fretting, and stalling, I finally upgraded my stroller. It’s no Bugaboo (I love it, but I just can’t afford it), but it’s still pretty swell. I bought a Bob Revolution stroller at a […]
Picture coming soon to illustrate this one. In the past week or so, Simon has taken quite a leap in his fine motor skills. He can get his stacking rings on their post in no time, and he can even gets blocks with a pretty small central hole onto a toy train with no problems. […]
That’s al chet as in the Hebrew “for the sin”, what you call the long confession on Yom Kippur. I’m not terribly observant, but there are a few holidays I still enjoy-or in this case still think are important. Passover is one, because how can you not be descended from East European Jewish immigrants and […]
Oh happy day! We’ve graduated to the front-facing car seat. In the beginning, the rear facing seat was no biggie. Simon weighed 7 pounds or so, the whole thing lifted out of a semi-permanently anchored base, and other than a slightly awkward reach to get the sucker out, there was nothing to it. Then Simon […]
Simon is getting pretty good at throwing things. Things like his ball, crackers, menus, and most hilariously, his pacifier. Less hilariously, he’s also perfected throwing a righteous fit. I think I’m seeing glimmers of toddlerdom in my baby. Funny stuff first. The image of a baby throwing a pacifier may not seem that funny. But […]
One more thing about that extremely gifted baby. In at least one respect, she is developmentally right on track. That would be the possessive, egocentric toddler track. Fiona’s favorite word while I saw her was “mine”. Whatever toy Simon wanted to play with at a given moment suddenly became the most wonderful, magical toy ever […]
Within the first few months of Simon’s life, I read a part of What to Expect: The First Year that made me giggle. It was about how to recognize if your child is an Extremely Gifted Baby (EGB). To the authors’ credit, they approached this question (parts of the book are presented in question and […]
Our little family is on the road again, this time to visit friends in Arlington and attend a business meeting in Boston. The kitties will be taken care of by our house-sitter, and I half suspect they may be happier with her than with us these days. After all, they won’t have to compete with […]
Unconditional Love
Posted in Jessica on Sep 5th, 2007
I am a fan of This American Life. Sometimes, like in the “What I Learned from TV” episode, it makes me laugh out loud. The one on Breakups two weeks ago actually made me want to sit down and have a little chat with Phil Collins (Phil Collins!) And last week’s, which I just listened […]