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Monthly Archive for January, 2012

Malaise or Ennui?

It’s a custom in our family that upon remaking the acquaintance of our pediatrician at Simon’s annual exam, we so enjoy our visit that we return one to two weeks later to continue the conversation. Two years ago that conversation was about anxiety. Last year it was to determine whether or not Simon had an […]

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Soccer Overload

Here are the top two… no three… no four… no five signs that your child has watched too much English Premier League football (soccer) of late: Sign 1: Not-So Casual Observation Side A [“side” = team in the lingo] makes what looks like a great goal to me. Simon chimes in: “Why didn’t they say […]

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Family Planning

At last, Simon has come to terms with the fact that we, unlike Mr. Gabriel and Ms. Alek, are not going to be providing him with a baby sister like Anyieth. He put it all together in one hilarious and sad free association ramble today: “I sure wish our house were like theirs [the Kwais’] […]

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The Usual

Simon has recently picked up the expression “the usual” (as in, “bartender, gimme the usual”) from a Daffy Duck cartoon, and has been champing at the bit to try it out in public.  Since I rarely take Simon to bars, he figured that maybe the ice cream shop would be a good place to try […]

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Reading!

The adventure began today with his grandmother. Evie wrote out some three-letter word families (think “hat” “sat” “mat” “rat”) and helped Simon sound them out. He’s been able to sound out each letter for months now, maybe even close to a year, but he couldn’t blend the sounds to form words. Well, today he did. […]

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Fire in the Belly

In the last week, I’ve gotten to learn a bit about what happens when Simon’s extreme caution comes up against something he badly wants, and I like what I’ve seen. Simon has been a Kicker (level 3) in his swim class for two months now. He quickly mastered most of the Kicker skills with one […]

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Five Year Check-Up: Rx Ice Cream

The five-year check-up was kind of like the four year one, but more! More Taller: 41” last year; 45 ½” this year. Up to the 80th percentile from the 75th. Mommy’s short genes definitely squashed. More Skinnier: 37 lbs last year; 38.8 this year. Down to the 25th percentile from the 46th. As I suspected, […]

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The Inquisition: All in the Subtext

At Trader Joe’s of all places. So there I was today, sneaking in a quick trip between a school tour (St. Matthews Elementary today) and taking Simon for his five-year check-up. Most of the lines were pretty full, except for one that had a single man in it who looked to have finished checking out. […]

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Not So Fast

My average time in the November 11 half marathon was 10.68 minutes per mile. Throughout my training, I found it much easier to add miles than to speed up. I also realized that I always required a relatively slow first two miles to warm up and feel good. Since then, I have only gotten out […]

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Little Trooper

Yesterday provided a lesson in how five improves everything, even being sick. Before now, a wretched night begat an equally wretched next day, albeit wretched in a different way. Typically, Simon spends the day following a bad night whiny and miserable. We understand and cut him a lot of slack, but that doesn’t make it […]

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