Tonight Simon made a connection for the first time between an object in a book and an object in the room. It was just before bedtime, and we were going through Pat the Bunny, Sleepy Bunny as we always do. We got to a page where Simon likes to point out a light, and as […]
Category Archive for 'Baby!'
Now that Simon is over sixteen months old, his list of favorites has changed once more. As of this March, Simon’s day is brightened by the following: Stuffed Animals: Dirty Duck and Dirty Dog are still our workhorse attachment sleep objects, but Simon is beginning to love and appreciate other stuffed animals, too. Specific favorites […]
I’ve got over 200 pages invested in this blog to date. My original goal was to post the occasional update and cute picture. Once I got rolling, it took on a life of its own as I became driven to write about my experience being a new mom. Before too many months sped by, I […]
Poor Simon. He had a really tough day on Sunday, and nothing I could do made him happier. His day started off fine, but he woke up from his morning nap late and on the cranky side and stayed that way for a full three hours. Lunch didn’t fix it. Singing didn’t fix it. Hugging […]
I am, to say the least, a creature of habit. While I’m not afraid to change jobs or move across the country, I am pretty wedded to the smaller things in life. If you take away my morning tea and newspaper, for example, I tend to get crabby; I can’t function without a morning shower; […]
Oh goodness have we ever hit a sweet spell in baby-cum-toddlerdom. Simon has spent the last few days in a super cuddly phase, and I am eating it up. Ever since Simon achieved mobility around the one-year mark, he’s been torn between forces compelling exploration and independence and ones urging close ties to his caregivers. […]
Literally. Simon has been interested in drinking from a cup for ages. Unfortunately, he’s much less interested in the age-appropriate Born Free sippy cup filled with milk than he is the red plastic tumbler we use to douse him in the tub. For at least three months, Simon has strained to lift the Maker’s Mark […]
Last year for Valentine’s Day, we loaded a then four-month old Simon into our car, drove to Jim and Evie’s house, and watched him have the best, most social and flirty day of his life to date. Last year, he was My Funny Valentine. This year Simon was already at his grandparents’ house for their […]
When Matt and I were in physics class 21 years ago (21 years ago!), our fabulous teacher G. Dewey Beadle once joked that a bad grade of Matt’s indicated “progression in the wrong direction.” It’s a physics joke; you’ll have to trust us that the joke was funny. (You really do, as I remember laughing […]
I’ve been reading Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, an eater’s manifesto. Anyone who read The Omnivore’s Dilemma won’t be surprised by Pollan’s suggestions, summed up simply as Eat Food (whole foods, not processed food-like substances), Not Too Much, Mostly Plants. I’m not there, but I’m working on it. I don’t eat fast food. I […]