Jonah makes jokes. Sometimes, it’s a joke only he gets. Like the other night when he was eating his hummus for dinner and he would take a bite and then he’d say “hummus” and then he’d say this string of…
Category: milestones
toast dinosaur
Take one slice of bread. Place one square slice of cheese* on bread. Place toast and cheese in toaster. Heat until cheese melts. Pat toast and cheese with paper towel as this removes the grease. The grease is what stays…
says madelyn
My kid does the best cat meow imitation ever. If there were a contest at the county fair, he’d totally win. Because he learned how to speak cat from Bambino. M-AOW! Bambino says, sharp and loud. Because he’s that kind…
elent evaporates
E – e – e, what begins with E? I’d barely noted that Jonah had been hanging on to his own personal interpretation of the pronounciation of elephant when… Today he was holding up his swim trunks, the orange ones…
he has a way with words and sleeping
I am falling down in my reporting in that I should be relaying all of these stunning sentences the boy puts together. I should be taking notes at all times. He should have a list. But I don’t take the…
bumbo and dando
Jonah has a lot of words. He knows them, says them with startlingly crisp articulation at times. He sings songs. He recites books verbatim. And he babbles. A favorite game is to run in circles chanting: Bumbo bumbo bumbo —…
thanks, mom
We’re in L.A., visiting Nana and PopPop, a.k.a. my mom and dad. Mom has just finished her rigorous morning workout and is getting dressed so we can take Jonah to the park. The boy and I are ready to go.…
art, astute, anarchy
Today it’s three, three, three posts in one: ART I’m sitting in my bedroom, meditating. Scott is on Jonah duty. It’s morning, so that involves light surveillance while making coffee, breakfast. I hear a prolonged series of thudding, scratching noises…