Tonight Simon had a play date with his friend Sophie, the very lovely and lively two-and-a-half-year-old daughter of friends. Simon is just now getting old enough to play with another child, and Sophie is just now getting old enough to adjust her level of play for a younger toddler. The two of them shared a […]
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Following the advice of our First Steps physical therapist, we are trying to get Simon to spend more time playing on his feet. To quote Amy, we’re moving Simon’s world up off of the floor. To this end, we’ve moved a train table into our living room and put many of Simon’s toys on it, […]
Traveling with a baby is a little (lot) stressful, but being with friends makes it all worthwhile. Our first full day in the Bay Area, a friendly bystander in a park got this group shot of all of us–originally a group of five couples, who have now morphed into a group of five families. Our […]
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 […]
A hearty Happy Birthday to Thomas, son of friends Tony and Katherine. Thomas started the Great Baby Boom of 2006 and was the first baby born to our San Francisco circle of friends. Unbelievably, he’s two today. Wow! Happy Birthday, little boy!
We got the exciting word that friends Kelley and Kaya welcomed their first child, a son named Thaylo William, in the wee hours of the morning of the twenty-second. Later today, we got more of the scoop. The short version is that Kelley was 42 weeks and 3 days pregnant, kiddo had no intention of […]
More than any other day, Halloween reminds me that I’m no longer in San Francisco. For the most part, adults don’t dress up here, certainly most don’t dress up and then go to work that way. And even more certainly, there is no spot in town where two-hundred thousand people gather in public for a […]
One more thing about that extremely gifted baby. In at least one respect, she is developmentally right on track. That would be the possessive, egocentric toddler track. Fiona’s favorite word while I saw her was “mine”. Whatever toy Simon wanted to play with at a given moment suddenly became the most wonderful, magical toy ever […]
Within the first few months of Simon’s life, I read a part of What to Expect: The First Year that made me giggle. It was about how to recognize if your child is an Extremely Gifted Baby (EGB). To the authors’ credit, they approached this question (parts of the book are presented in question and […]
I just got the most recent update on my friend Jen’s son Sam. The good news is that Sam’s overall heart function continues to improve. The not so good news is that his aorta has re-narrowed in one place, necessitating more surgery early next week. This time the surgeon plans to go in from his […]