Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 29th, 2012
These first few came in December. I’m sure many parents of five-year-olds are used to their sometimes dictatorial ways. But how many of them hear this particular nag? Come on, I’m ready to go to bed! It’s true: Simon has always loved his bed and is fully capable of deciding he’s ready for a nap […]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Feb 27th, 2012
Next Saturday is the Anthem 5K, the beginning of the Louisville Triple Crown of Racing. Unfortunately, I won’t be running in it or any other spring race. I didn’t know it at the time, but my season ended on January 7, the day it was supposed to begin. I missed that first day because Simon […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 24th, 2012
Simon style. Matt just finished reading him The Hobbit. His favorite part was “when Gandolf comes back and he’s afraid they will leave the path.” His biggest takeaway, however, is that “It’s 317 pages.” In a similar vein, we caught him checking out our copy of Anthony Shadid’s* Night Draws Near. It’s a bit above […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 21st, 2012
When Simon first began talking about numbers a lot, I chalked it up to being a boy thing. (Sexist, yes, but lots of boys go through a numbers-obsessed phase.) When it seemed to ramp up early this year, I didn’t trust my objectivity. Matt and I were interested in a math/science/technology magnet school, so Simon’s […]
I’m having a very un-PC laugh over here. For all of my lessons to Simon that you can’t tell a book by a cover, to be followed by discussions about the harms of stereotyping, sometimes, well… sometimes we do in fact act according to type. Five children from Keneseth Israel Preschool have applied to Brandeis, […]
I’ve been collecting funny quotes and will post a collection of them shorty. However, the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while was not said by Simon; that honor goes to our friend and his Auntie Alek. I had let Simon’s hair go without a trim for far too long. Since Simon’s hair is stick […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 13th, 2012
So asked Julie, Simon’s much loved swim teacher. She was laughing because my cautious, tentative child had just dived into the pool (from the pool deck, not a board) three times on his own. And done the butterfly stroke’s dolphin kick on his own. And asked what else he could try on his own. It’s […]
Posted in Elementary School, Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 9th, 2012
This is my fifth post in two weeks about kindergarten. Oh! You only saw the one? Well, that’s because I spared you the tedium and me the embarrassment of the Great Kindergarten Freak-out of 2012. You’re welcome. Included in the missing posts were rages about the complexity of the system, confessions of test-score Excel spreadsheet […]
Our Monday-itis just got downgraded. Looks like the fraud attempt might have been on an old, canceled card. So that’s good. And I canceled Simon’s doctor’s appointment, which is ever better. The appointment was made because, as of Friday morning, the school report was that he was still a little low-energy and was still struggling […]
Posted in Jessica on Feb 6th, 2012
Symptoms: Car parked on street is hit about 10 minutes before start of Super Bowl and less than 48 hours after spending $400 for a brake job; Calves are in screaming agony after treatment at running store. My long run yesterday was a total disaster (numb and tingling feet) resulting from inadequate stretching (my bad) […]