So, the benefit of having a child who is “adaptable” and “distractible” (according to at least one expert, and to a book I’d read with a questionnaire) is that one can pretty much just stop talking about charts and prizes…
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potty TRAINing
It’s like a butterfly landed on your nose, only better because it’s the Emily sticker you got for your third potty success of the day. (Alternate title of this post: In Which Thomas the Tank Engine And His Friends Assist…
and so it goes
Jonah’s sleep is so much better and mine is so much worse. Why, insomnia? Why? Is it because I’m 40? Is this some kind of pere-meno-wha?-z’all thing? Oh dear. Or just the moon? Not that Jonah didn’t wake up at…
i should have my blogging license revoked
Seriously need to get back to updating the blog more often. Darn it all to heck. * * * Walking down the street yesterday with a couple and their 8-month-old, me pushing Jonah in the stroller. Husband of couple says…
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…
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…
words words words (and more words)
He says: clothes, shirt, pants, knee clap, lap open, closed, knock zebra hair (and the phrase: “brush hair”) me, Jonah (these two words together, while pointing to himself) and tonight, while I was nursing him, and someone called, which one…
they call him the poopinator
Our poop story continues. First, a swing and a miss: This morning, I was preparing to go into the big city to do some real work (gulp!). So I was a little distracted. Not totally on my mom game. You…