Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 25th, 2012
At last, Simon has come to terms with the fact that we, unlike Mr. Gabriel and Ms. Alek, are not going to be providing him with a baby sister like Anyieth. He put it all together in one hilarious and sad free association ramble today: “I sure wish our house were like theirs [the Kwais’] […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 21st, 2012
The adventure began today with his grandmother. Evie wrote out some three-letter word families (think “hat” “sat” “mat” “rat”) and helped Simon sound them out. He’s been able to sound out each letter for months now, maybe even close to a year, but he couldn’t blend the sounds to form words. Well, today he did. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 19th, 2012
In the last week, I’ve gotten to learn a bit about what happens when Simon’s extreme caution comes up against something he badly wants, and I like what I’ve seen. Simon has been a Kicker (level 3) in his swim class for two months now. He quickly mastered most of the Kicker skills with one […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 17th, 2012
The five-year check-up was kind of like the four year one, but more! More Taller: 41” last year; 45 ½” this year. Up to the 80th percentile from the 75th. Mommy’s short genes definitely squashed. More Skinnier: 37 lbs last year; 38.8 this year. Down to the 25th percentile from the 46th. As I suspected, […]
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 […]