While fully realizing that the stakes are quite different, I do believe that yesterday I had my own “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment when I prematurely declared Simon well. Or at least better. From the moment the mattress delivery folks arrived at 9:00 a.m. until Simon fell asleep at around 8:30 p.m., he had an awful, […]
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Last night may have been the worst since Thursday, before Simon’s illness began. As I lay in my bed not sleeping, I listened as Simon lay in his crib, also not sleeping, as he cried off and on at 11:00 p.m., at midnight, at 1:00 a.m. and then again at 3:00. At 3:00, the crying […]
Matt and I have spent the last few days in a clinic on fever, and we’re more than eager for class to be out. Simon arrived home from school Friday with quite a fever. We gave him some Tylenol, and he spent the next four hours laying back against me on the couch “watching” the […]
Well, it’s all piling back on at the moment. About ten days ago, I moved my head to the side quickly and felt an uncomfortable pull. The next day, my neck was stiff and sore. Yesterday it moved into actual spams, which I not-so-fondly termed “neck labor” and which were sufficiently miserable that they necessitated […]
Before I forget, I thought I’d take a minute and jot down some of the new things Simon is saying and doing. On the verbal front, we’re still not getting sentences, but we are hearing lots of new words. He says things like “yo-yo”, “circle”, “mommy apple”, “mommy mean” (sigh), “pee-pee”, and “shirt.” More notably, […]
At Simon’s one-year check-up, our doctor told us he should visit the dentist before he turned eighteen months. We were surprised to hear this and frankly dreaded the trip. So we put it off. He turned eighteen months and we maybe possibly fibbed at his check-up about having a dentist. We are, after all, friends […]
It’s been ages since I’ve uploaded new photos to our album. I’m afraid that was one of many tasks that slipped through the cracks during my six weeks of travel and work craziness. Filed under, “better late than never”, you may find some cute pics of Simon at the petting zoo, with Molly, and hanging […]
My mother has told me more than once how, as a newlywed, she watched her new nephew bang his head on the floor in frustration and thought to herself with the certainty that only the childless ever have: “No child of mine will ever do that.” Then she had my brother Steve, who walked around […]
Time to take a patience pill! School was still out at KIP Monday, so I took the day off from work to go on full-time mommy duty. Looking for ways to enjoy the warm and sunny weather, I decided to head to the zoo, figuring that Simon would have a great time running around, being […]
While I was in Vegas this past week, Simon picked up some new linguistic ability. I had heard “wabble” (waffle) and “yewow” (yellow) before my trip, but “You know what?”, “apple”, “Ernie”, and “bubuly” (blueberry) are all post-trip additions, leading up the big highlight: His first sentence. We’ve heard possible sentences before, but we were […]