Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Sep 10th, 2008
When Mother’s Day rolled around this past spring, I had child art on the brain. Which wasn’t to say that I didn’t give Matt numerous not-too-subtle hints as to what “Simon” could get for me, but that I longed for the day when Simon himself, as opposed to “Simon”, would present me with a gift. […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Sep 7th, 2008
I hope it’s not confirmation bias or simply the effect of his new haircut, but I think Matt and I are already beginning to see the effects of KIP on Simon. He seems older all of a sudden, possessed both of more understanding and more independence. The changes have been in the works since he […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 28th, 2008
I’ll collect my thoughts later. For now, my single observation about life is that everything is happening at once, and not all of it is good. As a result, I’m pretty frazzled right now. If I squint, I can just make out a clearing on the horizon, but much like Vegas, I’m worried that everything […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 25th, 2008
Such an unusual state of mind for me, but no less true for it. I had been a font of negative prognostication this weekend. Simon, Matt, and I had a lovely, low-key Saturday and Sunday, featuring sandbox play, coffee houses, yard work (thanks for all the help, Jim and Evie!), dinner with friends, and lots […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 22nd, 2008
Rarely have I been so happy to wake up to a Friday. And I’m not alone. The entire Whitworth-Goldstein household is ready for the long exhale that is a weekend, having come through a pretty challenging week. The one who most needs it the most is Simon, but Matt and I are trailing close behind. […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 20th, 2008
I’m telling on my husband. But I’m not mad at him at all. Quite the opposite, I really feel for him. Yesterday he made the mistake I’ve been expecting to make. It, of course, involved preschool. I took Simon to KIP yesterday because I had a big, big call from 12:00-1:30 and wouldn’t be able […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 18th, 2008
Somewhere in the large and cluttered main office of Shary Hyman, the Director of Keneseth Israel Preschool, I imagine a thick file folder marked “Whitworth, Simon”. If you were to peek inside, you would find a group of papers neatly clipped together. The top of the stack is comprised of the usual boring administrative stuff: […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 18th, 2008
OK, more info soon but when I picked Simon up today, he was sitting at the table with the other children, happily eating his lunch, and talking to the kids and teachers. Panic averted.
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 18th, 2008
I had a whole different post planned for today, but it’s not seeming terribly relevant at the moment. Maybe later. Matt dropped Simon off at Keneseth Israel this morning, and he began crying the minute he realized where he was. He managed to give the school director a high-five at the door, but this promising […]
Posted in Jessica, KIP (Preschool), Toddler! on Aug 14th, 2008
…was ok. Not great, not tragic, just ok. We got off to an inauspicious enough start: Simon woke up at about 6:20 this morning. That’s a good hour earlier than his usual early waking time and more like an hour and a half earlier than his standard one. Meaning that today, a day we all […]