Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 9th, 2010
We’ll have actual text again soon. Between wrapping up my job of 8 1/2 years and being ill, the creative fires are fizzling at present.
Simon isn’t fizzling at all. Last week, Matt took him to the grocery store. When Simon thanked the checkout clerk, as we have trained him to do and as he now [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Mar 5th, 2010
Simon has reeled off some truly amazing lines of late. Thing is, he’s reeled them out for Matt, and Matt has begun to feel weird about posting on “my blog”. It wasn’t supposed to be “my blog”, but my blog it has become.
So I’m going to dole these out one or two at a time, [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Mar 2nd, 2010
Well, it’s a good thing I recently read Po Bronson on children and violent television. And it’s an even better thing that my friend Beth posted in the comments about her sweet boys watching some dodgy stuff. Because two weeks ago Simon’s Papaw turned on the TV when Tom and Jerry were on and the [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 28th, 2010
Not much to say here, really, other than that a good look at those hands goes far towards explaining why I can never, ever recall doing this at home when I was little.
Posted in Career Change, Jessica on Feb 26th, 2010
OK. This is going to get a bit wierd. I had started a whole new set of blog posts concerning ruminations about my career that I was not at liberty to post. I had four installments penned, beginning with a sense that I needed to develop a career Plan B (which is Plan C in my [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 24th, 2010
I’m not sure if this is a Simon thing or a little kid in general thing, but often Simon gives head-scratching answers to questions. It’s not so much that the answers are wrong or random, though both of things happen, so much as they are often in response to slightly different questions than what was [...]
Posted in Jessica on Feb 22nd, 2010
I have thought about Curious George way too much. We’re fans of the tv show over here, and I have spent more time than I care to consider trying to place accents, determining Professor Wiseman’s ethnicity (Jewish name, but does she look vaguely Indian?), wondering about whether she and the Man in the Yellow Hat [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 17th, 2010
The set-up:
We’re in the car, on our way to school for the third time in five school days. (Heckuva winter we’re having.) We pass the intersection of Eleanor and Douglas. Matt says, “Who lives there, Simon?” And Simon says, “Michael and Danna doos” [that was phonetic, by the way, I can still sort-of spell]. And [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Feb 15th, 2010
I was all set to post this little picture and then mock complain about how much my legs are going to hurt from dragging Simon around in a sled for an hour today in 7 inches of snow. I say mock complain because even when it’s a hassle, snow is awfully pretty in the winter, [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 14th, 2010
Thursday night, even as Simon was obviously happy to have me home, he had to draw his three-year-old line in the sand:
“Mommy, you’ve had enough hugs. You don’t need any more.”
Except I did! I had been gone the better part of three days, and I missed him. But he made me laugh, in part because [...]