Dear Jonah, As I type this, you are sitting on my lap, even though I vowed to minimize your exposure to video screens until age 3. No matter. You aren’t interested in the screen. You’re playing with a tiny hand-painted…
Category: baby baby baby
wonderful guitar
Am aghast at how long it’s been since last posting. As amends, another video. Some explanations: I’m pretty sure his hair is just wet and not actually scraggly. When he says “Goodbye Guitar” he is referring to the song we…
improvements
Just a note to check in and let anyone who is still following our sleep travails know that the latest technique change is working. At the end of our newly refined routine, he’s down to about 45 seconds of Mommy…
crying
Add crying to our bedtime routine. Here we are, yet again. As of last night, daddy does bath, potty, teeth, books and bottles, and another potty. Then at 6:30-ish Jonah gets into the crib. “Lay DOW-UNN,” he says — no…
not so bitsy spider
Today, while I was doing dishes and cooking, and Jonah was playing in the cat food, as he does, you know, what with the big bucket with the fun spinny top, the scooping with the scooper, the stacking, counting, and…
memory, ukulele
So this is how they get you. You buy your kid a ukulele (or your mother-in-law does, but how could she not — what with how cute he looked playing it in the store, how happy he was that it…
pancakes, sleep, axes
Mother’s Day! I asked Scott for Dutch Baby pancakes. I was having a craving, and I found this recipe up on the internet and it looked easy enough (a second site recommended doubling the butter, which I recommended to him.…
sparkles
Today Jonah looked at my crazy new shirt — a tank top with an elephant meditating on a lotus flower, the whole caboodle COVERED in rhinestones; it’s quite tasteful, really — as we were standing in the sunlight, me holding…