If you are traveling in Kauai with a toddler, definitely pick a resort that has CHICKENS! and ROOSTERS! on the property. Serious delight-makers. Every day so far has involved much CHASING. Our vacation sound scape is a combination of crashing…
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traveling with toddler kauai day 2: early morning
5:15 a.m. Scott says, “Wow, vacation wife sleeps for twelve hours, gets up and does the dishes.” Julie says, “Yes, let’s move to Hawaii.” * * * The first day in a condo situation involves shopping for supplies. Yesterday afternoon,…
traveling with toddler kauai day 1: palm trees and warm sand
Okay, I haven’t ACTUALLY put my feet in the sand yet. Jonah wanted to. As we were sitting at the grill bar, overlooking the crescent-shaped beach with requisite turquoise water, waiting for our hamburger and hot dog, respectively, he suggested…
ceci n’est pas un blog post
This is several blog posts, and none. A summary. A smorgasbord. I love Magritte. So I reference him. C’est tout. Where have I been? Why the blog silence? Even I don’t have a coherent answer and I’m the only one…
high anxiety
Today we laid low, after having traveled 2-1/2 hours (each way) by car yesterday to visit Great Aunt Dorothy. I hadn’t been hugely enthusiastic about the idea of plunking the boy in the carseat for such long stretches but he…
the army crawl is gone
It happened so fast. One minute, we were having our upteenth millionth conversation about how Jonah’s belly crawl is in fact a legitimate crawl and there’s no need to get up on hands and knees but maybe if he’d been…
he said “da”
Today, while I was feeding the boy his dinner in the high chair in the kitchen, I called Scott on speakerphone, to check and see how close he was to home. That’s pretty much a nightly ritual. One or the…
traveling with baby: kauai, days seven and eight
How did one week go by so fast? Day seven was hazy. Baby hazy. The boy went on one hour nursing jags in the morning, interrupted by a nap and a mega-poop-tacular, which altogether kept us from leaving the condo…