Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Family, Jessica, Simon says..., Toddler! on Jul 17th, 2009
I’m feeling lazy and so will wrap this week with a list of some pretty funny quotes. All but the last are from Simon. Upon playing the souk game just after a bath, in his birthday suit: “I come into the souk with my penis” A brief dialog about clouds: Simon: “What’s that?” Me: “Those […]
Simon spent the first two and a half years of his life reading board books. These fat little cardboard books were perfect for little hands guided by even littler impulse control. Many a night we tucked Simon into bed with a board book or two at his insistence. In the last few weeks, we’ve begun […]
My great-uncle Dave turned 100 Friday, and Saturday morning his synagogue threw him a large party to celebrate. In the extremely off chance that anyone reading this was also there and saw me have to leave the sanctuary to compose myself not once, not twice, but three times, I would like to briefly offer the […]
Yesterday was kind of funny. Our house was thrown completely off schedule by a scheduled air duct/couch/carpet cleaning and two afternoon meetings of mine that occurred past my regular hours and required Matt to cover me for. The carpet and couch cleaning wasn’t a big deal, but the air duct cleaning made the house sound […]
The very real downside of being married to someone you have pretty much known forever is that they know all your dirt. Meet and marry someone in your thirties—or even twenties—and you can heavily edit your teen years unless your family and old friends are particularly ruthless. But if you marry someone who knew you […]
“Munchausen syndrome is a type of mental illness, in which a person repeatedly acts as if he or she has a physical or mental disorder when, in truth, they have caused the symptoms. People with Munchausen Syndrome act this way because of an inner need to be seen as ill or injured in order to […]
It is amazing how much context determines our perception of the size of things. Simon is now asleep in his big-boy bed upsatirs. His crib is now broken down and leaning against a wall in our guest bedroom. Tonight, as I tucked him into bed and turned off the light, I was amazed by two […]
Word heard last night, around midnight, amid muffled cries during regular partial awakening: “Scary.” Words heard first thing this morning, at his regular 7:30 wake-up time: “Daddy! Where are you?” Number of times we heard pitter-pat of little feet in-between: Zero Number of times Percy has napped on Simon’s bed: Twice Words spoken to Matt […]
Matt and I have been planning on moving Simon to his big-boy bed for a couple of months now. We ordered it in April, and it arrived in Kiddie Kastle’s warehouse last week. Since then, we have had a single mission: to prepare Simon for the change so he won’t freak out. Therefore, we have […]
Ah, the simple joys of summer. For Simon, these include stomping around in Grandma’s garden, throwing rocks into the creek, and eating ice cream. On a warm (but not hot) sunny day, it’ s hard to argue with his logic. I’ll upload more soon, but here’s a favorite picture from tonight. And now, a solution […]