Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 3rd, 2010
The big family party is tomorrow, but we did finally haul out the menorahs (menorot?) for tonight. Simon “helped” light the candles, surprised me by knowing what the shamas was, and very cutely tried to follow along with the Hebrew blessing. I can tell he’s having fun and learning a lot at KIP. Then he […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 1st, 2010
Six months ago, as Simon began to play board games, I began to wonder where he’d fall on the Whitworth/Goldstein gamesmanship continuum. To review, Goldsteins take game-playing to ridiculous extremes and often sap all the joy out of the enterprise. (Mom, notice that I said “Goldsteins” and not “Wolfsons.” I know exactly which side of […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 30th, 2010
I’ll tell you how uncool. Right now mommy is so uncool that Simon said the following to me over breakfast: Mommy, I need some Daddy and Agotich time. Yup, there is currently no scenario that could not be improved by my absence. Even one that involves a not-quite two-year-old who used to cry and still […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 29th, 2010
Like his father and uncle before him, Simon spent the day after Thanksgiving watching the Star Wars trilogy. (That would be episodes IV-VI; in our house the first three don’t exist.) Referred to as “Artoo”, after R2-D2, Simon is a fan. He loves R2D2 and C-3PO, likes it when Darth Vader turns good at the […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 24th, 2010
Last night, Simon wanted to eat at what should have been bedtime. I tried to put him off. He tried to sound desperate. I parried with equal force. Then he opted to curry favor with flattery: Hey Daphne. Can you hook me up with some peanut butter? As a friend noted, I am, always was, […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 23rd, 2010
A funny thing has happened over here on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These are my Agotich days, the days that Gabriel drops her off at my house between 7:15 and 7:30 in the morning on his way to work. In the beginning, I was happy to help but found these days long. Between the child-minding, the […]
Posted in Friends, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 21st, 2010
I often wonder how many things I attribute to Simon are, in fact, symptomatic of a specific developmental stage and vice versa? For the most part, I’ll never know. But a friend’s blogging has just turned up one instance of something I thought peculiar to Simon. Of late, Simon has been enthralled by games of […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Nov 15th, 2010
Questions most parents dread fielding from their children: “Where do babies come from?” “Have you ever gotten drunk?” Anxiety producing questions for me and Matt: “What does that part do?” “What’s the name of that thing?” Saints preserve us, Simon is showing early signs of being a gear head. To fully appreciate the horror of […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 11th, 2010
I am being rather rudely awakened from a 12-month slackening in my maternal duties. Once the terrible twos ended, I found myself with an increasingly independent, increasingly verbal, increasingly compliant, and above all increasingly predictable child. Simon was tightly scheduled, and the very few times I veered from that schedule (like attending Baron’s birthday party […]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Nov 9th, 2010
A few weeks ago, we had houseguests Arnie and Jane stay with us. Arnie is my mom’s first cousin and a current resident of Northern California; Matt and I got to know him and his wife Jane during our time in San Francisco. A typical Arnie and Jane visit revolves around Matt, Simon, and I […]