Simon is getting pretty good at throwing things. Things like his ball, crackers, menus, and most hilariously, his pacifier. Less hilariously, he’s also perfected throwing a righteous fit. I think I’m seeing glimmers of toddlerdom in my baby. Funny stuff first. The image of a baby throwing a pacifier may not seem that funny. But […]
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One more thing about that extremely gifted baby. In at least one respect, she is developmentally right on track. That would be the possessive, egocentric toddler track. Fiona’s favorite word while I saw her was “mine”. Whatever toy Simon wanted to play with at a given moment suddenly became the most wonderful, magical toy ever […]
Within the first few months of Simon’s life, I read a part of What to Expect: The First Year that made me giggle. It was about how to recognize if your child is an Extremely Gifted Baby (EGB). To the authors’ credit, they approached this question (parts of the book are presented in question and […]
Our little family is on the road again, this time to visit friends in Arlington and attend a business meeting in Boston. The kitties will be taken care of by our house-sitter, and I half suspect they may be happier with her than with us these days. After all, they won’t have to compete with […]
Unconditional Love
Posted in Jessica on Sep 5th, 2007
I am a fan of This American Life. Sometimes, like in the “What I Learned from TV” episode, it makes me laugh out loud. The one on Breakups two weeks ago actually made me want to sit down and have a little chat with Phil Collins (Phil Collins!) And last week’s, which I just listened […]
Not in the Caddyshack sense of the sentence, but in the the baby toy sense. One of Evie’s great yard-sale finds of the summer was a toy shaped something like a short volumetric flask. The opening at the top was about the circumference of a golf ball, and the toy came with three balls to […]
Once upon a time, I watched way too much television. Much of that television was pure junk TV, like America’s Next Top Model, but some of it was junk TV disguised as something educational. If you’ve watched much of the programming on the science or history channels, you are well aware that many of these […]
We had another first today: Simon pulled himself up to a stand. Yay, Simon! Lately, we’ve been playing a 1-2-3-stand game. We both sit on the floor, I hold Simon’s hands in mine, we count aloud, and I pull him to standing on 3. After a while, he started doing some of the lifting himself, […]
Who sold me out? My sister-in-law warned me about this: you get pregnant and the next thing you know a bunch of stuff arrives at your door. Catalog stuff. Formula sample stuff. Babies R Us coupons. Just mounds and mounds of stuff-mostly stuff I was not interested in. The information had to come from the […]
A little late in the game, I joined the Jewish Community Center two weeks ago. Pool season is nearly over, but when it’s 103 degrees out, it’s about the only thing to do. Plus, I can start working out there and take advantage of the drop-in babysitting, J-Play, which charges a mere $2 for the […]