Last night we had Melissa, Nate and Baby Charlotte over for dinner. Charlotte is just 10 weeks old and absolutely beautiful. Jake was doing really well saying her name, “Charlotte, Baby Charlotte.” It was really cute. Then toward the end of dinner, he’s looking at me and he says, “Charlotte,…
Last night during bath time we were playing with the “numbers, numbers.” He shows me the “L”. “Shoe, Mama, shoe.” Huh. That serif type font does look like a leg with a shoe. I definitely need to work on my creativity.
In October I noticed Jake was starting to get a little pushy. I mean, pushier than usual. Perhaps physically ambitious is a better descriptor. On the airplane to DC, he took my hand and used it to make the window shade go up and down. Then he started grabbing my…
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…