Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 6th, 2012
Remember four years ago, when I was having a lovely, low-key birthday that ended with Simon projectile vomiting? And how it was unseasonably warm for January? You don’t? Well, I do. AND IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! It hit 60 degrees today, I had a lovely, low-key birthday, and just after 10:00 p.m. Simon awoke shrieking in [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 6th, 2012
Are a hoot, so long as you are not particularly vain. This is how he greeted my dad (birthday December 26) a week or so ago: “Hi Zadie, you’re 74 now. You’re older than my Bubbie. You used to be one year older, but now you are two years older. You’re older than my Grandma [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Jan 3rd, 2012
One of Simon’s Chanukah presents (thanks Amanda!) was a game called mancala. This is a count and capture games, a sort of African/South Asian checkers. You have to be good at counting to play, and Amanda thought the game would be a good fit for Simon given his current obsession with numbers. She played it [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 30th, 2011
For a variety of reasons, as of yesterday I had only posted one half of 2011′s pictures. Oops! This can be boiled down to my not liking the new Gallery interface (I’ve been complaining about that for a year I think), many of Simon’s pictures this year coming from Matt’s Blackberry when we were on [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 27th, 2011
One of the more challenging facets of childrearing is trying to discern the difference between individual characteristics and general developmental stages. Almost all babies are lovey-dovey and smiley at around six months, for example, so how is a parent to know if their child is affectionate or just hitting a set stage? You really don’t, [...]
Posted in Family, Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 21st, 2011
Chanukah this year did not get off to a great start. In fact, it started with a tray of home-made dreidel treats falling off the roof of our car and splattering all over Taylorsville Rd. I had put the tray there when loading the car, and then promptly forgot about it. Surprisingly, it survived a [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Dec 19th, 2011
Simon’s bedtime chat with me as we lay side-by-side in his bed, a pretty accurate snapshot of life with him these days: “Mommy, what’s 3 plus 2?” “You tell me? “Um, 6? “No, use your fingers if you have to. “Oh! 5! “Right. “What’s 2 plus 2? “You tell me. (hereafter “) “4 “What’s 4 [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Dec 16th, 2011
Yesterday Simon has his class Chanukah party. He ended up with a Hot Wheels toy, which I was surprised fit into the assigned budget. Then I saw how flimsy it was and was less surprised. Simon loves it, it breaks on contact, and he’s been one frustrated little boy for the last 24 hours. At [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 13th, 2011
Last year, all spring it seemed, Simon increased his rate of daytime sleeping, had more night-time sleep disturbances (usually involving waking up between 11:30 and midnight and hollering “Ow!”), and ate non-stop. At the end of this period, he had grown about four inches in six months, hit a plateau, and started eating less, sleeping [...]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy on Dec 8th, 2011
I didn’t think Simon looked that different this year from last. Then I got his school pics back. Last year’s were better, fyi. His hair has an odd bump here and I’m not sure why we buttoned the top button. Regardless, the boy has really stretched out in the past year; everything here—-face, hands, arms, [...]