Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica on Jun 30th, 2008
This one isn’t about complaining; it’s about perspective.
Ever since my OBGN’s office handed me a copy of Plum Magazine (http://www.plummagazine.com/), I’ve been rolling my eyes at the notion that we older moms are somehow more special than or significantly different from the younger ones.
I understand that it’s harder to get pregnant after 35 and that [...]
Technically, I took my babymoon trip two years ago in Maine. But I’ve decided to redefine the term, and Simon and I are having our second babymoon of 2008 now. (The first was documented here.) Simply put, he’s been a happy, funny toddler for nearly two weeks now. Since Father’s Day, when he began [...]
Age is a funny thing-it’s more relative than I used to understand. In my mind’s eye, I still picture myself as a twenty-something-a youngish twenty-something. My parents, meanwhile, are frozen in their forties, my cats are still kittens and my heroes are all still in their prime. I’ve known that this is all untrue for [...]
Sometimes the answer to a problem is right in front of you, but you just can’t see it. Fortunately for me, my path has crossed with someone who has a complementary problem to mine and better vision into a solution.
My problem is that I worry Simon needs more socialization than he’s getting. I’ve made it [...]
Simon has uttered what sounded like sentences in past, but I could never tell. Today, however, clear as day he took one look at his new toy (pictured) and carefully enunciated:
“That’s the bus.”
Yup, it sure is. Looks like mama picked a winner.
Best of all, it’s a maple bus made in Vermont by a family-owned and [...]
Fourteen and a half months ago, I gulped hard and spent a small fortune on 15 medium-sized Fuzzi Bunz, a diaper sprayer, and 15 micro-terry diaper inserts. These replaced the previous lot of 15 size small Fuzzi Bunz Simon had just outgrown–diapers that never had to accommodate the digestive tract of a baby eating solid [...]
As I write this, the ghost of Red Auerbach has lit up his victory cigar with over two minutes left on the clock in the NBA finals. Actually, who am I kidding? The ghost of Red Auerbach lit up with two minutes left in the first half.
Here in Louisville, my little family celebrated tonight with [...]
Simon is taking off. What a beautiful sight!
After Sunday night’s performance, I was cautiously optimistic that Simon would continue to improve and would be walking soon. But I didn’t want to put a time-line to it because Simon’s progress to date has been so slow. Two days later, however, I’m seeing things differently. We’re here.
Yesterday [...]
No kidding. When I woke up this morning, I thought the day’s miracle would be Boston closing out the Lakers in Game 5 of the NBA finals. Right now the score is Lakers 37- Celtics 22 at the end of the first quarter, so I’m thinking a Celtics win might require more of a miracle [...]
Within a day or so of my purchasing Happy Baby Things That Go, I snapped some pics of Simon reading it. Then I got a new Elizabeth George novel and started consulting with landscape architects about my back yard (my back yard needs a landscape magician, I’ve decided), and never got around to taking said [...]