Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 31st, 2010
I’ve decided that if you want to know—really know—what you look like when you discipline your child, just watch him or her discipline a stuffed animal or doll. Over the last few days, Baby Bunny has been hitting and kicking Simon while they wrestle. He’s not trying to be mean; he just gets wound up […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 29th, 2010
There’s an experience I’m sure all parents have had where your child says or does something, and you very sincerely wonder whether they understood or meant to do what it seems they did. With Simon, we get this all the time when it looks for all the world that he has “read” something. Did he […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 27th, 2010
It seems time has caught up with me, and it’s been nearly a year again since I wrote up a log of Simon’s favorites. They’ve changed quite a bit! Child’s MP3 Player: This was Evie’s idea for Christmas, and it was brilliant. Simon loves music, but he’s not quite up to handling CDs yet, so […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 24th, 2010
A year or so ago, my sister-in-law gave me a copy of Raising the Emotionally Intelligent Child, a method of child rearing—or more accurately a suite of tools to employ in child rearing—with clinically proven results. The notion behind the book is that kids need to learn to identify and understand their emotions if they […]
Posted in Jessica on Jan 21st, 2010
I just did a quick check of the headlines and ran across this: “A U.S. Airways flight from New York to Louisville was diverted to Philadelphia over a misunderstanding about a Jewish prayer ritual, Philadelphia police said.” It would seem that a 17-year old was putting on tefillin, a small set of black boxes containing […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 21st, 2010
Well, it’s come to this. So much of what Simon talks about these days can be classified as potty humor, that I’m about to make a category out of it. Seriously. To date, I’ve been a tiny bit leery of posting most of this, but I’ve now decided that my reticence is owing to my […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 17th, 2010
Perhaps you have run across one of those tests where an English sentence is presented to you with the letters mixed up. The first and last letters remain in place, but the middle ones are scrambled. The surprise factor in these tests is that you can still fairly easily make out the words. It might […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 13th, 2010
All last week, Simon seemed to think that if someone in the house were having a birthday, it must be him. At some point, that picture was obviously corrected. Last night, at around 7:00 p.m. or so, Simon decided that he wanted to go downstairs to play with his Thomas set. As is often the […]
By last Thursday, I was ready to give up on birthdays (not everyone’s; just mine). It just seemed that weather or illness or post-holiday fatigue always gets in the way, and has done so from the very beginning. My birthday is January 6. Not because my mom went into labor and naturally delivered me on […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 9th, 2010
There have been a few things in the past couple of weeks that have left me speechless. For example, a while back Simon told me that his Curious George that looks like the TV character was “Mommy George” and that the George that looks like the book character was “Daddy George”. He then put Daddy […]