kids

sublime, ridiculous

May 21, 2009

I saw two performances yesterday that were as far apart as they could possibly be in almost every way. First I watched my almost-four-year-old son Owen sing and dance and play and yawn and smile and wave his way through his preschool music concert. It was one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. I [...]

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kid’s eye view

May 18, 2009

Owen loves taking pictures. Lately he loves taking pictures with my phone. We bought a new digital camera recently and offered Owen our perfectly good but somewhat older one. He wants nothing to do with it. He wants my phone. Of course, when not being used as a camera, my phone also doubles as a [...]

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mother’s day 2009

May 10, 2009

Owen picked his own gift for his mom this Mother’s Day. He’s almost 4, and was excited about a secret mission with Dad to pick out a surprise for Mom. I tried to drive home how we shouldn’t tell Mommy what we were getting her because we wanted it to be a surprise on Mother’s [...]

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will walk for shoes

May 8, 2009

Just a quick post to share some video of Nicholas’ early bipedal adventures. This video is from yesterday and I swear as of today he’s talking twice as far. He has on fear, which is very different from Owen at that age, who was very cautious. Speaking of Owen, notice him adjusting a scarf on [...]

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keeping our kids safe

May 6, 2009

A friend (who is currently childless, incidentally) sent me this link:Stop worrying about your children! Maybe she thinks I worry too much? It’s an article on Salon.com by Katharine Mieszkowski, profiling Lenore Skenazy of freerangekids.com. Here’s the summary: Kids today are just as safe as they were in the ’70s, says “Free-Range Kids” author Lenore [...]

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old school

April 30, 2009

Owen is already learning you can’t go home again, even if he doesn’t understand that yet. We’ve had pretty good child care luck. When Owen was born in 2005, Lisa took seven months off. (Before you get all excited and start applying for her job, this was seven months without pay. Lisa’s an opera stage [...]