Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 6th, 2012
Remember four years ago, when I was having a lovely, low-key birthday that ended with Simon projectile vomiting? And how it was unseasonably warm for January? You don’t? Well, I do. AND IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! It hit 60 degrees today, I had a lovely, low-key birthday, and just after 10:00 p.m. Simon awoke shrieking in […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 6th, 2012
Are a hoot, so long as you are not particularly vain. This is how he greeted my dad (birthday December 26) a week or so ago: “Hi Zadie, you’re 74 now. You’re older than my Bubbie. You used to be one year older, but now you are two years older. You’re older than my Grandma […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 3rd, 2012
One of Simon’s Chanukah presents (thanks Amanda!) was a game called mancala. This is a count and capture games, a sort of African/South Asian checkers. You have to be good at counting to play, and Amanda thought the game would be a good fit for Simon given his current obsession with numbers. She played it […]
Matt and I have a tradition of about four years running of hosting a half-assed New Year’s Eve party. After a week or so of intense family socialization, we’re always ready to catch up and relax with our peers and their kids. The problem is, we’re too beat/lazy by this point to do it right. […]