Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica on Mar 21st, 2008
Heaven knows, it’s easy to let things creep up on you in tiny increments. In fact, few things happen overnight. A nation’s political climate and policy can change bit by bit, our kids grow up in barely perceptible intervals, and our houses get cluttered one little item at a time. I wonder, do we lose […]
It finally happened! After months of waiting, wishing, hoping, and worrying, today Simon reached a baby milestone I thought I’d never see. He crawled. Not what you were expecting? Yea, well, that’s two of us. He’s been rocking back and forth on his knees for a few weeks now, and I kept thinking that one […]
Simon has a new adorable habit of late. Pretty regularly, he will pick up a book and hold it out to me. This means that he wants to sit in my lap and have us read the book together. He especially likes doing this with Curious George’s ABCs, where he can show me the penguin […]
Simon turned 17 months old today, an occasion he marked by being pretty crabby for half the day, spending the entire day in his PJs (Matt was up until 3:30 a.m. on a work call last night, so we were a lazy household today), and waving bye-bye for the first time. My mom came over […]
If Simon is to continue being an only child, it’s important to me that he learn to share and play well with others. That’s one of the reasons I began looking into pre-schools last summer and put him on the pre-registration list at Kenneseth Israel (KI). Friday, February 29, I went to check the program […]
I think Simon had his first nightmare last night. We put him down at 8:00 or so, and at 8:30, just when I’d expect him to be moving from light to deeper sleep, he awoke shrieking. There were no little muffled cries or whimpers that escalated; he began full on. I rushed upstairs, half-way expecting […]
I’m beginning to feel more secure in my prediction that Simon is developing quickly these days, as yesterday we enjoyed a couple more firsts. One came during the UK basketball game Matt was watching yesterday. Simon looked up at the screen and, casual as anything, said “ball” a few times. So he now understands that […]
Right now, I’m about 2/3 of the way through Tete-Michel Kpomassie’s memoir An African in Greenland. I last left Tete-Michel in Sukkertoppen (Maniitsoq), where he has arrived in September, just in time for the”the polar hysteria of the arctic autumn.” Basically, the arctic is difficult in September because the sea is too full of ice […]
Simon cruised tonight! Not a hesitant step or two around the ottoman either, but a full, confident cruise at a respectable pace. Hurray for Stinkpot! I was so proud of him that I almost cried. Okay, I did cry a little. We brought home a ride and walk toy from our friends the Braunsteins a […]
Babies are funny. For the most part, from my point of view, they either seem to change dramatically overnight or not at all. I mean, one day they sit up and stay up for the first time, and the whole world seems different, and then (in our case) it seems like that’s the last trick […]