Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Apr 12th, 2012
A few doors down from Jim and Evie live E and H, a retired couple like them who often have their grandkids (Taylor, 5, and Tori, 3) over to visit. Whenever possible, Evie tries to grab Simon on a day that E has Taylor. The boys play well together and are fast friends. Simon tells […]
There is one, thankfully. But getting there is going to take a little explanation. I haven’t blogged much about Ashul* this year because I’ve been worried about her and didn’t think it appropriate to discuss someone else’s child in those terms. The cause for concern has been her language development, specifically her expressive (spoken) language. […]
I’m having a very un-PC laugh over here. For all of my lessons to Simon that you can’t tell a book by a cover, to be followed by discussions about the harms of stereotyping, sometimes, well… sometimes we do in fact act according to type. Five children from Keneseth Israel Preschool have applied to Brandeis, […]
I’ve been collecting funny quotes and will post a collection of them shorty. However, the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while was not said by Simon; that honor goes to our friend and his Auntie Alek. I had let Simon’s hair go without a trim for far too long. Since Simon’s hair is stick […]
Matt and I have a tradition of about four years running of hosting a half-assed New Year’s Eve party. After a week or so of intense family socialization, we’re always ready to catch up and relax with our peers and their kids. The problem is, we’re too beat/lazy by this point to do it right. […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 24th, 2011
Not Simon, but rather his friend Caroline. Simon has a lot of adorable friends in his life, but I have to confess that little Caroline has a special place in my heart. In a way, it’s projected narcissism; she’s the child who is most like Simon in many ways. She’s sweet, she’s gentle, she’s bright, […]
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 25th, 2011
Louisville is a small city/big town, the kind of place where everyone is, or seems to be, a few degrees removed from everyone else. I didn’t feel a part of the web of the city my first few years back. I had been gone for seventeen years, and many of my connections were lost or […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 21st, 2011
As Simon gets older, he’s interested in a wider variety of activities and only rarely naps. I sometimes sense that he’s under-stimulated by being at school from 9 to 1 and then hanging out with me at home. After a brief snack and rest, I feel like he’s ready to DO something. And he is, […]
Posted in Family, Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 18th, 2011
Against the backdrop of birthday preparations last week, other stuff was percolating. This stuff, which I will get to in a moment, demonstrated to me more than anything that it takes a village—or better still an army—to raise a child. It all started the week before last, when I had a five-day fever that didn’t […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 23rd, 2011
or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Fish Two weeks ago or so, Simon attended a friend’s birthday pool party. It wasn’t the perfect set-up for him, as the pool was so cold he didn’t want to spend much (or any) time in it. Still, he played outside, enjoyed being with his […]