Messy Fun
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 28th, 2010
Not much to say here, really, other than that a good look at those hands goes far towards explaining why I can never, ever recall doing this at home when I was little.
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
The Other Elephant: Part V
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Feb 26th, 2010
OK. This is going to get a bit wierd. I had started a whole new set of blog posts concerning ruminations about my career that I was not at liberty to post. I had four installments penned, beginning with a sense that I needed to develop a career Plan B (which is Plan C in my […]
The Non Sequitur
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 24th, 2010
I’m not sure if this is a Simon thing or a little kid in general thing, but often Simon gives head-scratching answers to questions. It’s not so much that the answers are wrong or random, though both of things happen, so much as they are often in response to slightly different questions than what was […]
Curious George, Interior Decorator
Posted in Jessica on Feb 22nd, 2010
I have thought about Curious George way too much. We’re fans of the tv show over here, and I have spent more time than I care to consider trying to place accents, determining Professor Wiseman’s ethnicity (Jewish name, but does she look vaguely Indian?), wondering about whether she and the Man in the Yellow Hat […]
Child as Time Bomb
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 17th, 2010
The set-up: We’re in the car, on our way to school for the third time in five school days. (Heckuva winter we’re having.) We pass the intersection of Eleanor and Douglas. Matt says, “Who lives there, Simon?” And Simon says, “Michael and Danna doos” [that was phonetic, by the way, I can still sort-of spell]. […]
Tuckered Out, Tucked In
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 15th, 2010
I was all set to post this little picture and then mock complain about how much my legs are going to hurt from dragging Simon around in a sled for an hour today in 7 inches of snow. I say mock complain because even when it’s a hassle, snow is awfully pretty in the winter, […]
Requited?
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 14th, 2010
Thursday night, even as Simon was obviously happy to have me home, he had to draw his three-year-old line in the sand: “Mommy, you’ve had enough hugs. You don’t need any more.” Except I did! I had been gone the better part of three days, and I missed him. But he made me laugh, in […]
Absence
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 12th, 2010
I am just back from a business trip to Boston, a trip that was delayed 4 hours outbound due to snow and one full day inbound due to snow. Oh, and that also involved 2.5 hours on the tarmac in New Jersey when crew members could not arrive in time because they were delayed on […]
Zingers
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 7th, 2010
Simon had an unusually good and funny day yesterday. I don’t plan to recount the entire day, but I do want to get down the two lines he got off that made me laugh out loud before I forget. The first came when I returned from a trip to Target and an errand on Bardstown […]
In Defense of Looney Toons
Posted in Jessica on Feb 5th, 2010
For a start, let me just say, “Wow!” This one is for everyone who ever felt guilty about loving Speed Racer, The Roadrunner Show, or any other kids cartoon that in hindsight looks terribly violent. It is a common phenomenon among my friends to look back at all the (awful) stuff we watched on TV […]