Aubrey and Lucille were here again this weekend to watch Daniel achieve every dream they have ever had for him give a talk at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre Company after a performance of A Report on the Banality of Love, a play about Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. The baby and I stayed home to [...]
Entries from March 30th, 2010
Think like a baby
March 21st, 2010 · 7 Comments · EDG
I need to get better at thinking like a baby. Ellie is curious and mobile, which means that she is getting into anything and everything. A few times now, I’ve put her down and scanned the room for danger. “Looks good to me,” I said to myself, only to turn around 5 seconds later to [...]
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“I’m a philosopher”
March 16th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Academia
I was very happy to be able to accompany Em to all of her midwifery appointments in Chicago when she was pregnant. On our first visit (sometime in the middle of the morning on a weekday), the midwife remarked that it was good that I was able to get time off from work to come. [...]
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Northfield News
March 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Northfield
We were woken up on Tuesday morning by sirens and what appeared to be the entire fleet of Northfield fire, police and safety services parked outside our house. The dog and I later witnessed a burnt-out minivan being hauled away from the parking lot of City Hall. What happened? Well, according to local resident-cum-arsonist Mark [...]
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Water Water Everywhere
March 8th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
We took Eleanor swimming at the Carleton pool yesterday. It was a success: she didn’t poop herself, she laughed, she splashed and she got patches of exczema. What was remarkable about the swim was observing the way she, step by step, decided to enjoy the whole swimming thing. Eleanor, like all babies, is nothing if [...]
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Cheerios
March 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · EDG, House
It has been a week of firsts. Eleanor started crawling, started waving (that weird, hand-folding wave that, for whatever reason, grown-ups use with kids. Eleanor now waves to herself because that’s what she sees. She doesn’t yet get that just as we wave to her, she should wave to us) and started saying “Da da” [...]
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Belly
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Visitors
A brief post: we had a wonderful visit with our good friends P & V from Chicago last week. Eleanor took to both of them quite quickly and we loved showing them around town & chilling out. But really, Belly might have been the happiest of the bunch:
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High Risk
March 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Ellie’s daycare is fantastic. The daycare provider is nurturing and almost formidably conscientious and Ellie bursts into a grin whenever she sees her. The house is painted a friendly aqua blue and the basement playroom has Eric Carle murals on the wall. It is also a teeming cesspool of germs. Since starting daycare, some combination [...]
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