Do you ever get the feeling that you are the least interesting person in your circle of friends? Or at least the one with the most unrealized potential? I was reminded of a friend from Oxford recently, a beautiful German woman named-I think I remember this correctly—Anna Maria Milena Teresa von Brentano, because she once […]
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I was supposed to wrap up this not-so-little dittie a few days ago. Then kiddo and I ran into some nursing problems and my thoughts took a detour. That drama has wrapped for the present, thanks to the ministrations of a lactation consultant, lots of Internet research and gallons of Mother’s Milk Tea. About the […]
I knew parenthood came with its sacrifices when I signed up over a year ago. What I didn’t know is that such sacrifice could come so early in my tenure. And yet, after merely 7 1/2 months, I feel I have already missed one of life’s seminal events: The coronation of LeBron James as the […]
A quick update. Yesterday Simon successfully nursed at 8:00 a.m. and then again at noon, but took a bottle at 3:00 p.m. when I couldn’t get things to work and he was getting hysterical. At around 6:30 p.m. I succeeded again, then again at 11:30 p.m. , 2:00 a.m., 4:30 a.m., 7:30 a.m., and 10:30 […]
After 32 mostly uneventful weeks of nursing, I have hit a wall. And I’m panicked. Simon began teething a few weeks ago, a fact I confirmed last week on vacation when he once bit me during a nursing session. He had been drooling for ages, so we weren’t sure when teeth would actually erupt. The […]
Now’s the time I finally get to the title for this little series. A Sort of Homecoming: In 2005/6, I made it the Bay Area three times: for a November trip six months after my move back to Kentucky, for RSA 2006 in February, and then again last May. Each time, I felt very much […]
My Son the Flirt: I’ve known for some time that Simon is a pretty social kid. The first signs came at Chanukah this year, when Simon stayed up for far too many hours enjoying all the Goldstein kids, only to come home and have an inevitable breakdown from fatigue. The same cycle repeated itself again […]
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Lesson Number One about traveling with an infant: Give yourself mounds of time. Our plane ride to Oakland last week was much more stress filled than it needed to be, and in large part that was because we just didn’t understand how much longer everything would take with an infant along […]
Well, it’s been a pretty horrific few days over here, and tomorrow we test fate and take Simon on his first plane ride. Wish us luck! Matt’s been working crazy hours — in fact, he’s working into the wee hours tonight — and Simon chose today of all days to not sleep. He woke up […]
Preschool!
Posted in Baby!, Jessica, KIP (Preschool) on May 15th, 2007
Last week I pre-registered Simon for preschool. Isn’t that hilarious? He’s seven months tomorrow and has only been sitting up for three weeks, but soon his name will be on a list of those entering Keneseth Israel’s 18-month old program beginning in August 2008. What’s more, I plan on doing the same at my second […]