Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 17th, 2010
The set-up: We’re in the car, on our way to school for the third time in five school days. (Heckuva winter we’re having.) We pass the intersection of Eleanor and Douglas. Matt says, “Who lives there, Simon?” And Simon says, “Michael and Danna doos” [that was phonetic, by the way, I can still sort-of spell]. […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 14th, 2010
Thursday night, even as Simon was obviously happy to have me home, he had to draw his three-year-old line in the sand: “Mommy, you’ve had enough hugs. You don’t need any more.” Except I did! I had been gone the better part of three days, and I missed him. But he made me laugh, in […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 7th, 2010
Simon had an unusually good and funny day yesterday. I don’t plan to recount the entire day, but I do want to get down the two lines he got off that made me laugh out loud before I forget. The first came when I returned from a trip to Target and an errand on Bardstown […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Feb 2nd, 2010
For ages, Simon pronounced his own name “Si-moan” with equal nearly equal emphasis on each syllable so that it sounded just a tad different than the name “Simone”. It was adorable and mysterious: Whence came this Si-moan? Nearly a year later, with Si-moan long behind us, Matt and I finally figured it out. I was […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 31st, 2010
I’ve decided that if you want to know—really know—what you look like when you discipline your child, just watch him or her discipline a stuffed animal or doll. Over the last few days, Baby Bunny has been hitting and kicking Simon while they wrestle. He’s not trying to be mean; he just gets wound up […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 29th, 2010
There’s an experience I’m sure all parents have had where your child says or does something, and you very sincerely wonder whether they understood or meant to do what it seems they did. With Simon, we get this all the time when it looks for all the world that he has “read” something. Did he […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 24th, 2010
A year or so ago, my sister-in-law gave me a copy of Raising the Emotionally Intelligent Child, a method of child rearing—or more accurately a suite of tools to employ in child rearing—with clinically proven results. The notion behind the book is that kids need to learn to identify and understand their emotions if they […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 21st, 2010
Well, it’s come to this. So much of what Simon talks about these days can be classified as potty humor, that I’m about to make a category out of it. Seriously. To date, I’ve been a tiny bit leery of posting most of this, but I’ve now decided that my reticence is owing to my […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 13th, 2010
All last week, Simon seemed to think that if someone in the house were having a birthday, it must be him. At some point, that picture was obviously corrected. Last night, at around 7:00 p.m. or so, Simon decided that he wanted to go downstairs to play with his Thomas set. As is often the […]
Posted in Jessica, Little Boy, Simon says... on Jan 9th, 2010
There have been a few things in the past couple of weeks that have left me speechless. For example, a while back Simon told me that his Curious George that looks like the TV character was “Mommy George” and that the George that looks like the book character was “Daddy George”. He then put Daddy […]