Simon has been playing “telephone” for ages. He’s listened to “hello”s and unreciprocated attempts at conversation from my old boss, my mom, my in-laws, and a handful of friends. Without exception, until Wednesday this week, he’s smiled into the phone, looked up at me with an expression of wonderment, and then wandered off while disembodied […]
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Posted in Family, Jessica, Simon says..., Toddler! on Jul 17th, 2009
I’m feeling lazy and so will wrap this week with a list of some pretty funny quotes. All but the last are from Simon. Upon playing the souk game just after a bath, in his birthday suit: “I come into the souk with my penis” A brief dialog about clouds: Simon: “What’s that?” Me: “Those […]
My great-uncle Dave turned 100 Friday, and Saturday morning his synagogue threw him a large party to celebrate. In the extremely off chance that anyone reading this was also there and saw me have to leave the sanctuary to compose myself not once, not twice, but three times, I would like to briefly offer the […]
The very real downside of being married to someone you have pretty much known forever is that they know all your dirt. Meet and marry someone in your thirties—or even twenties—and you can heavily edit your teen years unless your family and old friends are particularly ruthless. But if you marry someone who knew you […]
Ah, the simple joys of summer. For Simon, these include stomping around in Grandma’s garden, throwing rocks into the creek, and eating ice cream. On a warm (but not hot) sunny day, it’ s hard to argue with his logic. I’ll upload more soon, but here’s a favorite picture from tonight. And now, a solution […]
I have not given up taking pictures. I just had a snafu earlier this month that means I have quite a mess to sort through and, having recently come through a bout of insomnia, have yet to get to it. I will get to it. After all, I’m going to be taking pics over the […]
Yesterday, just past 3:00 a.m., my great-uncle Eddie died in Detroit. He’s the youngest of the four Kahn siblings who arrived in the US in 1922—my Bubbie’s “kid brother.” That leaves the oldest of the bunch, my great-uncle Dave, as the sole surviving sibling. He’s 99 years old and lives in a nursing home about […]
A few years ago, I decided to rethink our family’s Passover seders (a seder is a service you have at home for the holiday that centers around a meal and telling the story of the exodus from Egypt). We were still following a traditional, Hebrew-heavy model that wasn’t cutting it with our interfaith, child-filled crowd. […]
You may have read we’ve had some weather in Louisville KY. To be precise, we’ve had about five inches of snow, a bunch of freezing rain, and over 200,000 Louisvillians have no power. There’s only one unblocked street from our house to civilization (and more trees coming down by the hour), school has been called […]
Grandparents are like fairy dust sprinkled in a child’s life. Well, the good ones are I should say. I grew up close to all my grandparents, but especially so with my maternal ones, Pearl and Lester Wolfson. They were like second parents to my brothers and me, giving us all two more people to worry […]