Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica on Sep 22nd, 2010
Hi Everyone, I have so many thoughts swirling in my head I could burst, but they will all have to wait until next Tuesday. I’m off for a (too) quick trip to Trondheim (!) for a friend’s wedding, and I am not taking my computer with me. Sacrilege, I know. But my least favorite thing […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy, Simon says... on Sep 20th, 2010
Simon’s birthday is next month, and I’ve been busy making arrangements for his party. As I planned his first three parties without consulting him (with mixed results), I had assumed this would be a parent-planned affair as well. And it will be, to a point, but Simon has gotten his two cents in on key […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, KIP (Preschool) on Sep 16th, 2010
The quintessential introductory question in San Francisco is “where are you from?” One of the biggest shocks of moving back to Louisville was realizing that the ice breaker here is “where did you go to high school?” I didn’t get it at first, but now understand that this question allows the average Louisvillian to find […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Sep 14th, 2010
I well remember those months, now long past, when Matt and I awaited Simon’s attainment of object permanence. When, we wondered, could we hide a toy behind our back and have Simon search for it? When would he grasp the notion that things exist even when you can’t see them? According to Piaget, this developmental […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Little Boy, Simon says... on Sep 12th, 2010
In the last two weeks, as Matt and I have begun to acclimate to our pet-less lives, we were gifted with some moments of levity courtesy of Simon. Herewith, a sampler: “Daddy. When Mommy sees how good I trace my letters, she’s going to plotz!” In fact, I did. But I may have plotzed more […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 10th, 2010
I’ve been too busy to blog for the past few days, what with it being Rosh Hashanah and my having three services to attend and a holiday meal to help prepare. I’ll catch up anon, but I have one quick post to make before I forget. My calendar says that it’s 5771 as of Wednesday […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 6th, 2010
Saturday was little Jillian’s 3rd birthday party. Jillian is one of Simon’s classmates, and holds a special place in my heart. She’s the one who cried every morning at drop-off, resulting in Simon’s characterization of each school day as “Jillian cried”, she’s the one who prompted an unexpected conversation on race last year, and she’s […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Sep 1st, 2010
Thank God it’s September. What a long, strange, miserable month August was. The very first week I attended a cousin’s wedding and watched my friend Gabriel’s family reunite. Then it all crashed around me. Sudden pet death. Anticipated pet death. Family illnesses not blogged about. Two deaths related to friends of the family. Except for […]
There’s a lot going on in our house right now in the aftermath of losing our two dear pets within 48 hours. A fair bit involves Simon, and I’ll get to that later. But I thought we could use some levity, eh? I know I sure as heck could. Especially since this morning I set […]
I’ll keep this brief, as I wrote quite a bit about a Percy when he turned 15 a year and a half ago. After four weeks of an iron supplement and two weeks of thrice-weekly subcutaneous fluid therapy, Percy appeared to have turned a corner yesterday. He had been more active and social for over […]