Well, today is it: Simon’s first birthday. One year ago last night, a singer auditioned for Matt’s band who was so very bad and so very annoying that I joked at the time that he might send me into labor. Then I awoke at 5:20 or so the next morning with a pop of amniotic […]
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Right now I should be worried about things like whether Simon is delayed in his gross motor skills, whether his nutrition is up to snuff, and whether his language development is on track. But I’m not. How could I possibly worry about these things when a much scarier prospect looms on the horizon; namely, tha […]
Well, we’re back from Gatlinburg and have much to report from our trip to the Smokies. Simon liked his new car seat, relaxed at the Laurel Falls waterfall, loved touching an engraved stone at Cades Cove, thought hitching a ride to Clingman’s Dome via Daddy’s back was very funny, and thrived on all the time […]
Well, Simon has at last learned how to pick up puzzle pieces by the knob and is babbling up a storm, but I’ll have to write about that later. We are currently in the final throws of packing and getting out the door for Gatlinburg. The car is mostly packed. Simon just woke up from […]
Today Matt witnessed Simon’s first demonstration of true fear. I was at the grocery and Matt was playing with Simon in the living room. It’s fall now, and despite it still being 80 degrees outside, certain fall-like things are beginning to happen, including various creepy crawlers trying to make a home inside our house. One […]
This week I’ve taken advantage of extreme ends of the shopping spectrum. On the high end, after much thinking, planning, wanting, wavering, fretting, and stalling, I finally upgraded my stroller. It’s no Bugaboo (I love it, but I just can’t afford it), but it’s still pretty swell. I bought a Bob Revolution stroller at a […]
Picture coming soon to illustrate this one. In the past week or so, Simon has taken quite a leap in his fine motor skills. He can get his stacking rings on their post in no time, and he can even gets blocks with a pretty small central hole onto a toy train with no problems. […]
That’s al chet as in the Hebrew “for the sin”, what you call the long confession on Yom Kippur. I’m not terribly observant, but there are a few holidays I still enjoy-or in this case still think are important. Passover is one, because how can you not be descended from East European Jewish immigrants and […]
Oh happy day! We’ve graduated to the front-facing car seat. In the beginning, the rear facing seat was no biggie. Simon weighed 7 pounds or so, the whole thing lifted out of a semi-permanently anchored base, and other than a slightly awkward reach to get the sucker out, there was nothing to it. Then Simon […]
Simon is getting pretty good at throwing things. Things like his ball, crackers, menus, and most hilariously, his pacifier. Less hilariously, he’s also perfected throwing a righteous fit. I think I’m seeing glimmers of toddlerdom in my baby. Funny stuff first. The image of a baby throwing a pacifier may not seem that funny. But […]