We’ve encountered a strange phenomenon with our little Chatty Cathy (not sure what the boy version would be… Chatty Chester?) In any case, words that were perfectly pronounced in the beginning, have transformed, sometimes in dramatically (and potentially offensive) ways. A sampling of the vocabulary metamorphosis: ball -> baseball ->…
Speaking of navels… in Spanish they have the best saying, “El piensa que es el ombligo del mundo.” He thinks he’s the bellybutton of the world. So much better than our “center of the universe.” Poor little Jakey is definitely the bellybutton of our world at this point… I’d forgotten…
I recently had a great bus conversation with a respected director at work. She shared with me her philosophy on the time her husband spends with her son when she is traveling for work. Essentially, she stated that she can’t be upset about anything they do when she’s gone, even…
A few weeks ago, James remembered that we had some unused bath toys in the closet– a whole bag of colorful foam letters and numbers that stick to the tub when they’re wet. Thank you again Rene! We feel you smiling down on us at bath time. Jakey loves his…
Lately Jacob has pulled out some new niceties from his bag of tricks. He frequently uses please and thank you… perhaps with some prompting. He’s famous at school for his signature sentence, “How do you do?” (Based on his favorite book, this is what you say when you meet a…
I only have myself to blame. It all started many months ago. Every morning Mommy needs her “hot tea.” Really, how can I get up at 4 to 5am for years on end without a little bit of caffeine? Jakey really wanted to try it so I invented “dip dip.” …
Two weeks ago it was Chinese cabbage week. I still don’t know what a Chinese cabbage is, but I guess, via deductive reasoning, I know it’s smaller than a plain old regular cabbage… Apparently Cillo is already about 15.7 inches long and weighs almost 3 pounds. James’ most salient wish…
There’s something about Jake’s presence that inspires my loving life partner to indirectly point out my… um… shortcomings. “Jakey, Mama is bad at putting on lids.” Hmmm. I hadn’t even noticed this area for development. It does take me at least two tries to get the lid screwed on to…
This weekend James and I celebrated our second babymoon. It was heaven. Similar to our first babymoon, we spent two nights at The Cottages of Napa, and even lucked out by getting the green cottage with the porch which I always wanted. We scarfed down dinners at Ad Hoc, Mustard’s…
I’ve been thinking a bit more about dog babies and have decided to post a correction. There is, in fact, one animal that I would recommend as the perfect practice pet in preparation for kids: A monkey. No cage.