Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica on Jan 13th, 2012
At Trader Joe’s of all places. So there I was today, sneaking in a quick trip between a school tour (St. Matthews Elementary today) and taking Simon for his five-year check-up. Most of the lines were pretty full, except for one that had a single man in it who looked to have finished checking out. [...]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Jan 10th, 2012
My average time in the November 11 half marathon was 10.68 minutes per mile. Throughout my training, I found it much easier to add miles than to speed up. I also realized that I always required a relatively slow first two miles to warm up and feel good. Since then, I have only gotten out [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 8th, 2012
Yesterday provided a lesson in how five improves everything, even being sick. Before now, a wretched night begat an equally wretched next day, albeit wretched in a different way. Typically, Simon spends the day following a bad night whiny and miserable. We understand and cut him a lot of slack, but that doesn’t make it [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 6th, 2012
Remember four years ago, when I was having a lovely, low-key birthday that ended with Simon projectile vomiting? And how it was unseasonably warm for January? You don’t? Well, I do. AND IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! It hit 60 degrees today, I had a lovely, low-key birthday, and just after 10:00 p.m. Simon awoke shrieking in [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 6th, 2012
Are a hoot, so long as you are not particularly vain. This is how he greeted my dad (birthday December 26) a week or so ago: “Hi Zadie, you’re 74 now. You’re older than my Bubbie. You used to be one year older, but now you are two years older. You’re older than my Grandma [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 3rd, 2012
One of Simon’s Chanukah presents (thanks Amanda!) was a game called mancala. This is a count and capture games, a sort of African/South Asian checkers. You have to be good at counting to play, and Amanda thought the game would be a good fit for Simon given his current obsession with numbers. She played it [...]
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 Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 30th, 2011
For a variety of reasons, as of yesterday I had only posted one half of 2011′s pictures. Oops! This can be boiled down to my not liking the new Gallery interface (I’ve been complaining about that for a year I think), many of Simon’s pictures this year coming from Matt’s Blackberry when we were on [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 27th, 2011
One of the more challenging facets of childrearing is trying to discern the difference between individual characteristics and general developmental stages. Almost all babies are lovey-dovey and smiley at around six months, for example, so how is a parent to know if their child is affectionate or just hitting a set stage? You really don’t, [...]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 21st, 2011
Chanukah this year did not get off to a great start. In fact, it started with a tray of home-made dreidel treats falling off the roof of our car and splattering all over Taylorsville Rd. I had put the tray there when loading the car, and then promptly forgot about it. Surprisingly, it survived a [...]