Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Mar 11th, 2009
Last weekend, Simon’s preschool held a huge auction fundraiser. It was a complicated affair: Everyone was charged with selling raffle tickets for a drawing, each classroom solicited donations for themed baskets that were auctioned off at school the day before the big event, and then the actual cocktail party included items up for silent and live […]
The last few days have offered up a glimpse of spring. I can see buds on a smattering of trees, a few early-bird jonquils have bloomed, and the last two days have been warm. This is different than saying spring has arrived, though, because the forecast is for cold weather later in the week, most […]
Thursday night we had dinner at Jim and Evie’s, and Evie delighted me by bringing her blueberry pie—my favorite—to the table for dessert. Simon turned out to be pretty delighted, too, as he took one look at the spherical confection and launched into song: “Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you….” Adorable! But also […]
This is why I think Simon is the easiest two-year-old in the world. We were upstairs tonight getting him into his PJ’s, and since Simon is really interested in numbers these days and also likes to point out clocks, I decided to introduce him to the wild world of digital alarm clocks. “See these numbers, […]
My mother-in-law was once friends with a brilliant woman who went on to start her own school that adhered to her unique theories of education. One of her precepts was that children were not to have any books that included anthropomorphism. So, no Curious George, no Richard Scary, no Dr. Seuss, and no Peter Rabbit. […]
Posted in Jessica on Mar 1st, 2009
This post is about my feline baby, so I’ve put most of the text after the fold: My first baby, Percival, is fifteen today, and I can hardly believe it. I brought him home to my Ann Arbor apartment in September 1995, when he was about one and a half years old. I can still […]