Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 14th, 2011
Did you know that Simon is going to be five on Sunday? And that he’s having a friends birthday party on Saturday and a family one on Sunday? Did you know that he’s getting presents at the family party? And that we are baking cupcakes for the Saturday one? And that his Sunday cake will […]
Posted in Jessica on Oct 11th, 2011
My neck has hurt me off-and-on for the past four years or so. Other than to put heated neck pillows on it and look forward to warmer weather, when it generally feels better, I haven’t thought too much about it. Some people have achy backs, other achy knees. With me, it’s my neck. No biggie. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 8th, 2011
Transcript of actual conversation between me and Matt: “So what’s Simon doing for Yom Kippur? Going with you and your mom?” “No. He’s going to have a sleepover with your folks.” “Oh.” [sounding surprised] “Yeah, I figure he did so well on Rosh Hashanah, we can call it a holiday. Besides, he’s not-quite five. What’s […]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Oct 6th, 2011
One of my primary motivations for starting to run was to try to ward off the high blood pressure that has plagued/does plague every single member of my family once they hit 50. I doubted I could run my way out of all medical interventions, but I hoped I could at least cut down on […]
It’s been one year to the day that I brought home Cambria, my shelter traumatized, shy, then two-and-a-half-year-old Siamese mix. Owing to his back story, it took much longer for him to warm up to us than it did for Percy or Tristan. But he’s so clearly there now! He’s still not a lap cat, […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Oct 3rd, 2011
Has not, I hoped, “dried the sap out of [his] veins, and rent spontaneous joy and natural content out of [his] heart.” (William Butler Yeats, “The Fascination of What’s Difficult”.) I decided this summer that Simon should start piano lessons this year. He’s got the attention span and hands for it, he likes music, and […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 28th, 2011
Remember how you were with albums when you were a kid? (And if you were a kid in the post-album era, keep that quiet, eh.) How you would rush to get one and then play it over and over and over again? How, after a few months, you had so overplayed your new favorite album […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Sep 27th, 2011
Life with the nearly five-year-old is providing an increasing number of interesting questions and lines that make me laugh out loud. Below is a sampler of recent gems that don’t fit into stand-alone stories: Upon seeing a police officer speeding for no visible reason: “Who pulls over the policeman?” Upon my request that he use […]
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 […]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any pictures, and I have three I’d like to share. First, there’s Simon at the pool. He began Red Cross swim lessons at the JCC this June, then switched over to the new Lenny Krayzelburg Swim Academy classes in August. This is a new system that works in […]