I haven’t been ready for Simon to get his hair cut. Even as everyone all around me made it loud and clear that his bangs were too long and that he had far too much flowing hair in the back, I’ve been holding out for unshorn locks. “He’s a baby,” I’d think and sometimes say. […]
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
Well it’s official: The entire Goldstein-Whitworth family is now on suicide watch. And I couldn’t be happier. The watch has nothing to do with depression, this one is all about Simon’s burgeoning mobility. Today he pulled up many times. How many I can’t say, because I honestly lost count. Given that between October and today […]
Simon can now identify at least one body part, the nose. We’ve all worked on this off an on for a while now, but both Grandma and Bubbie got serious about it within the past week. As a result, you can now ask Simon to show you a nose, and he will put his little […]
I honestly didn’t think this happened to babies, but today Simon suffered his first ever Bad Hair Day. Bubbie managed to fix it in the end, but I’m afraid Matt and I could hardly look at him without laughing last night and this morning. It began with bath time. After Simon enjoyed his evening soak, […]
Apologies to Yeats for this one, as my terrible eyesore is nothing as profound or lyrical as the “terrible beauty” he describes in his poem about the Irish uprising of 1916. Still, 92 years later I’ve just wrapped an Easter day that included plenty of polite, meaningless words interrupted by a variety of odd, unsettling […]
The Dangers of Incrementalism
Posted in Jessica on Mar 21st, 2008
Heaven knows, it’s easy to let things creep up on you in tiny increments. In fact, few things happen overnight. A nation’s political climate and policy can change bit by bit, our kids grow up in barely perceptible intervals, and our houses get cluttered one little item at a time. I wonder, do we lose […]
It finally happened! After months of waiting, wishing, hoping, and worrying, today Simon reached a baby milestone I thought I’d never see. He crawled. Not what you were expecting? Yea, well, that’s two of us. He’s been rocking back and forth on his knees for a few weeks now, and I kept thinking that one […]
Simon has a new adorable habit of late. Pretty regularly, he will pick up a book and hold it out to me. This means that he wants to sit in my lap and have us read the book together. He especially likes doing this with Curious George’s ABCs, where he can show me the penguin […]
Simon turned 17 months old today, an occasion he marked by being pretty crabby for half the day, spending the entire day in his PJs (Matt was up until 3:30 a.m. on a work call last night, so we were a lazy household today), and waving bye-bye for the first time. My mom came over […]
If Simon is to continue being an only child, it’s important to me that he learn to share and play well with others. That’s one of the reasons I began looking into pre-schools last summer and put him on the pre-registration list at Kenneseth Israel (KI). Friday, February 29, I went to check the program […]