On Tuesday, Scott took Jonah for the whole day while I worked. Now that we’re on a reduced breastfeeding schedule, this is much easier to pull off. In the morning, they went to Crosstown Community Center for “Campfire Songs” —…
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the jew in the mother (the purim post)
As a kid, I hated going to temple on the holidays. Sitting in that big, cavernous sanctuary for HOURS. I didn’t see the point. At High Holidays every year, when services truly go on forever, I mostly recall falling asleep…
fellini, comic book heroes, twoword phrases
Jonah desperately loves playing with our cell phones. He likes to press buttons; he likes to hold it behind his head (his preferred phone position) and say “hiiiii;” he likes to suck on them. He’ll play with them even if…
i was wrong about the bribes, and the weaning
I was wrong. The bubbles bribe only worked that one time. Oh well. Moving on… I was also wrong about weaning. Sort of. He nursed before bed tonight. Though I stopped him short of nursing himself to sleep. I just…
more weaning and a bribe
Last night, Scott was doing the evening bottle and book routine with Jonah. He called out to me that Jonah was falling asleep and so he would be putting him down. I called my friend Emily because, this was the…
mystery moose and a wean-y day
The other day, as I was parking in the lot at Trader Joe’s, Jonah said Moose! Moose! I looked around, no Moose. Just cars, trees, houses behind the lot. We went to the park, we went shopping. A nice TJ’s…
the word i never want to blog again, and others i do
Sleep. Can we just not need to talk about sleep anymore? Five days ago, I wrote that I was glad the boy had nursed himself to sleep. Over the last five days, that stopped working. There was endless nursing. There…
and then I taught him existential angst
I’m guilty. A few times, I said it. And he picks it up in that way that he does. He’d be crying, fighting me on something: a diaper change, buckling into the car seat, something. Locked in a battle of…