Here, for your enjoyment, are three videos from the past month or so. 1) For about three days in early August, Eleanor was obsessed with the new chair in our bedroom (and who wouldn’t be with that fabulous fabric?!). First, she just wanted to climb onto and sit in the chair. Hence this series of [...]
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How to play with a 1-year-old
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · EDG, Visitors
We are off to my family’s cottage in Ontario for a week tomorrow. It has been a little over a year since we were there last. We’re looking forward to a more relaxing time this time around and we’ll also be seeing lots of good friends. Speaking of good friends, we had a 24 hour [...]
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Fetch
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Belly, EDG
Dan and I had a conversation last week about Eleanor’s intelligence vis a vis a dog’s. He claimed she was approaching the intelligence of a Border Collie. I pointed out that Eleanor couldn’t herd sheep or sort colored objects or do anything so sophisticated. Dan scaled back his claim and stated that maybe Eleanor’s intelligence [...]
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The Weiszes
July 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Carleton, EDG, Visitors
Sandy, Sarah and Ezra (of baby-zombie fame) are in town. We’re having a wonderful time catching up, watching Eleanor & Ezra together (although they are largely ignoring each other. Eleanor pays attention long enough to take whatever Ezra happens to have in his hand), and generally just chilling out. On Friday, we spent some time [...]
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Of yellow crustiness and other matters infantile
June 29th, 2010 · 5 Comments · EDG
We have been spending a lot of time at the pool this past week. Eleanor really likes the water, although it’s not clear that that is the main attraction at the pool. She seems equally, perhaps even more, content exercising her new walking chops on the adjacent grass and, more inexplicably, playing with the mulch [...]
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World Cup Baby
June 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · EDG, Northfield
We have been transitioning nicely into summer hours around here. To start, the end of all my day-to-day academic responsibilities coincided with the start of the World Cup. With the exception of the odd 30 minutes of Lawrence Welk, prior to last week Eleanor had basically never watched TV. In the past week, she has [...]
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Freaky Friday
June 7th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Carleton, EDG
Ok, not freaky. But unusual inasmuch we did three (for us) exciting things. As I’m sure almost none of you know, I’m a particular fan of pigeons. I don’t know why, but I’ve always loved them. When I was a child, my mother took me to Trafalgar Square back when it was covered in pigeons [...]
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Birthday the first
June 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · EDG
Eleanor turned 1 yesterday. We have been doing what it seems is the done thing on such an occassion: reminisicing about this time last year and comparing the small, small baby that we met on June 2nd 2009 to the much larger, personality-filled person we have today. We are having a party this weekend for [...]
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The great dandelion massacre of ’10.
May 13th, 2010 · 5 Comments · EDG, Garden
“We ordered a push mower yesterday after reading a lot of glowing Amazon reviews and receiving reassurance from a neighbor that a push mower will do us just fine. It’s due to arrive tomorrow. I don’t know how long we’ll last without a gas mower and if a push mower is the ultimate in hippie [...]
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Toronto
May 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · EDG, Trips
Phew. We’re home after an extended weekend in Toronto. Emily left you with a cliff hanger on her last post: how would Eleanor travel? I am pleased to report that she was awesome. She was happy during all the flights (ecstatic during take-offs) and happy for hours and hours in her car seat as we [...]
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