Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jun 24th, 2011
Simon’s second week at camp was a foreshortened one: he only went yesterday and today. The little guy had some tummy trouble earlier in the week, and I didn’t want to send him until I knew everything was all sorted out. Aside from being yucky and a deterrent to having fun, his brief illness also […]
I have two stories today: one has nothing to do with me, but is a doozy; the other concerns a neighbor’s drama into which I insinuated myself. Tube Trama My first story comes compliments of my niece Maddie, via my mom. Maddie (10), her sister Olivia (12), and brother Ben (8), just returned from a […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 17th, 2011
Simon’s been working on some pop-tunes. I think his version of “Police on My Back” is awesome, if not mildly wildly inappropriate. “Hard Day’s Night” is cuter. He’s been working on the first few lines, AKA the John Lennon parts, for a week or so. Tonight he ventured further into the song. It was cuter […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jun 17th, 2011
If you were reading this blog back when Simon was 2 or 3, you know that his toddler days were made more difficult by his poor adaptability and initial withdrawal. Which is fancy speak for Simon taking a while to warm up and not handling change very well, traits he gets honest from his parents. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jun 15th, 2011
As with politics or tennis, parenting, too, comes with its share of unforced errors. It’s bad enough when Simon hits a rough patch and I think I err in handling it. I might tell myself that I could have or should have tried a different tactic or, if I’m really at the end of my […]
Posted in Jessica, No Boundaries on Jun 13th, 2011
Yes, triumph. It was not that I packed running clothes for my vacation last week and actually used them. That was a new leaf for me, for sure, but not a triumph. It was not that Saturday I went out and ran 6 miles while feeling the effects of plane travel and the mild dehydration […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jun 11th, 2011
As the new banner above may make obvious, my little blog vacation involved some travel. Matt, Simon, and I just returned from six days in the Bay Area, where we visited a few of our favorite places and many of our favorite people. It was, as ever, simultaneously relaxing and invigorating to dip back into […]
Posted in Jessica on Jun 3rd, 2011
I’m logging out for a week and will be back on Saturday, June 11. Today I woke up, ran five miles, took Simon to the pool to play with Baron, took him to visit his Zadie and Nana, and then got caught up on all the mail/laundry/filth/Sudanese stuff I’ve been delaying. With camp not set […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jun 2nd, 2011
This is all kinds of awesome. It’s late spring, and as I’ve already complained, we went straight from rain and cool to blistering heat with no real “spring” in between. I always encourage Simon to drink lots of water when the mercury rises. I just learned that Matt has done the same, only in his […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on May 29th, 2011
In the way of Kentucky, the ram and bull of April and May never quite yielded gentle spring days, heralding instead rain, more rain, still more rain, high winds and downed trees, and more than a few days with winter-like temperatures. Now Memorial Day Weekend has arrived, bringing with it a wall of heat and […]