Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says..., Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2011
My mom used to say that part of parenting required blind faith. You tell your kids the same things over and over and over and over, while they often as not seem to ignore you, and hope to live to see the day when some of that advice or direction sticks. I got an early […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 24th, 2011
Simon likes language. I know that sounds silly, but what I mean is that he is very aware of the words and expressions he uses and tries to experiment with them. I’m hoping this foreshadows a lifelong interest in the written and spoken word. Until then, I’m enjoying the fruits of his unique idiolect. Being […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 21st, 2011
Our fifth, to be precise, but the first when I could get the camera out. Today we slept in, then headed to Caroline’s house for some sledding and hot cocoa. Time to get kitted out in bibs, jacket, hat, mittens, and snow boots? About 10 minutes. Time sledding before Caroline called it a day (she […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 17th, 2011
Oh boy. We’re back to talking about death, and the conversations are getting more difficult and emotionally fraught. I still don’t think Simon really understands it, but he now understands it enough to be afraid and upset by the notion that we all die. Thursday night, just before I turned out the light, Simon asked […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 15th, 2011
My dad has many fine qualities and talents. His sense of direction and spatial capacity do not number among them. The same man who can tell you about every Dutch portrait ever painted, discuss drug interactions in dizzying detail, and make a rocking cradle that makes you want to have a dozen kids just so […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 14th, 2011
So I was down for two days working in the KIP computer lab and scurrying to finish a grant proposal. Then the blog was down for a half day from a technical glitch. Deep thinking will have to wait. But I do have two funny quotes to pass on. Simon to Evie at Noah’s Ark […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 11th, 2011
In early 2010, Simon said something that unnerved me. I was upstairs vacuuming when I heard him ask Matt: “Is that Leslie up there?” Leslie was the housekeeper who came every two weeks. Although I did vacuum between her visits, I didn’t do it much or well. Thus, Vacuum = Leslie in Simon’s three-year-old brain. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 10th, 2011
So Greg (friend, former neighbor, father of Ruby) calls us on Saturday with cabin fever. “Let’s go out. Wanna see a movie or something?” I’m at a friend’s, getting my first introduction to Pilates (how can I move so little and still feel my muscles so much) and picking up the files from five years […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 6th, 2011
Four years and six weeks if you want to get technical on me. And please don’t. I felt guilty enough. The primary causes of procrastination were: (1) not wanting to disrupt school or nap time; and (2) dreading the shots that accompany this visit. With babies, you don’t have to tell them before, and they […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 4th, 2011
Two years ago, Simon and I returned to KIP after winter break and discovered that all his friends had begun talking. The teachers told me that this communal verbal growth spurt was typical. Last year, we returned from break to find that most of his classmates were potty trained. The teachers tell me that always […]