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…
Category: sleep
it is so quiet, except in my head
The weaning seems to be continuing. I’m okay with it. Kind of. When my sister was in town recently, she said, “I wish you could be confident in the decisions you make as a mom.” She meant it in the…
oakland kindergym and three-syllable words
Today is mostly a lovely day. The weather is Bay-Area gorgeous, sunny, blue skied, and just a touch on the cold side of warm. We went to the Kindergym toddler playtime at Temple Beth Abraham.Jonah messed a bit with 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…
sick redux
Have we ever stopped being sick? I think there was one day last week. Fortunately, at least, Scott and I have managed to switch off worst days, and so spell each other on the childcare. We’re pretty sure Jonah’s second…
the wave
The boy says “Hi” all the time now. He says it with a little inflection. And a smile. Sometimes he sounds southern. Always he sounds like he’s flirting, a touch mischievous. He says it to women pretty much wherever we…
sleep: miraculous and strange
Jonah re-instituted the two-nap regimen this week. One at 10 a.m., one at 5:00 p.m. Each about one hour long. And still he goes to bed at 6:30. And sleeps till 6:00 a.m. or a smidge later. Today he made…