Neighbors
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 29th, 2010
Today was the Derby parade at KIP, and I’ll post (adorable) pics later. But for now, I really love this shot of Simon playing with his next door neighbor Ruby that I took last night.
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Pedal for the Petals
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 29th, 2010
Ah, perspective. For a year and a half, we’ve been coaxing Simon to use the pedals on his tricycle. For the same time, he’s been resisting our efforts, quite happy to Flintstone it around the block, and quite insistent that we push him up any hills. If we tried to show him how to use […]
Decluttering
Posted in Jessica on Apr 27th, 2010
I’m now 30 days into what is supposed to be a difficult period of transition. I’m supposed to feel unmoored by my job loss and craving my old routines. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is no exaggeration to say that I have gotten more done in the last 30 days than I […]
Sweetheart
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Apr 26th, 2010
Seven months on, Simon’s Oedipal phase continues unabated. He loves it when Matt throws him on the bed, administers “the pile-driver” maneuver, or takes him to the “library” (AKA, coffee shop), but I’m the one he still hoards time with and gives the most spontaneous hugs and kisses to. He’s also taken to calling me […]
Devil’s Haircut
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Apr 22nd, 2010
So we’re in the car last weekend, heading to or from one of the two birthday parties on our agenda. Matt’s USB fob is in the car radio, thus ensuring that he doesn’t have to listen to any song, ever, that he has not vetted. A Beck song comes on. Matt goes to quiz Simon: […]
The Other Elephant: Part I
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Apr 21st, 2010
Last fall, for a variety of reasons and not for the first time, I began having serious doubts about the longevity of my career in technical publishing. But with my signings in, my back-list strong, and a non-stop stream of family events from mid-October on, I backburnered my concern. Then January came around, I took […]
Interrogation
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Apr 19th, 2010
Matt and I used to enjoy watching little snippets of NYPD Blue to laugh at the interrogation scenes. So far as we could tell and the show and most other police procedurals depicted, police work mostly amounted to putting suspects in a small room and asking them questions over and over again until they broke […]
Monday through Wednesday this week, Kitty Friend moved onto my porch and deck. He waited for us to come out and play, he ran between mine and Simon’s legs when we raced around the house (Simon demands that we alternate winning these races), and he plopped in my mom’s lap for a nice snooze when […]
Spelling
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Simon says... on Apr 14th, 2010
Overheard in the car on Sunday as we drove past Keneseth Israel. “That’s my school. K-I-P. K-I-P spells preschool.” Sounds like a kicky slogan to me! Also, given my own history of spelling (Never got a 100% on any spelling test ever), this may well be prophetic. (Not that Simon will never get out of […]
Kitty Friend
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 12th, 2010
Sometimes watching Simon is like watching my soul walk around untethered from my body. I think once before I said he was a bit like Phillip Pullman’s daemon familiar to me, and that thought still holds true. Friday evening, the two of us were playing chase in the yard. Up the driveway, around to the […]