We went downtown today for the Taste of Northfield. Bridge square is closed to traffic and bands play into the night (The Counterfactuals declined this year given the recent arrival of Micah Decker!!). Eleanor had a ball running around with older children and dancing (more like “dancing”) to the music. Bridge Square was packed with [...]
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Eleanor is Two. Just don’t ask her about it.
June 2nd, 2011 · 4 Comments · EDG
Eleanor is two today. This really pisses her off. I’ve been coaching her for several weeks to say “Two!” or at least hold up some fingers (any number) as a response to the question “How old are you?”. For some reason, this question makes her really, really angry. She either ignores the question altogether, says [...]
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Daddy’s little Idealist
February 21st, 2011 · 6 Comments · Academia, EDG
George Berkeley (pronounced “Barkly”), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an idealist or, as he called himself, an immaterialist. He believed that literally nothing exists excepts minds (including God, the greatest mind of all) and ideas. Ordinary objects, like that apple in front of you, are nothing more than a bundle of ideas (the idea [...]
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Sing, sing, sing
February 9th, 2011 · 4 Comments · EDG
Eleanor can sing. Really. She’s not great with the words (Ok, she’s awful with words), but the girl can really nail a melody. Well, one melody anyway: she sings an easily identifiable version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or the Alphabet Song, or Baa Baa Black Sheep). She also gets the “E-ai-e-ai-o” in Old MacDonald [...]
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Performers
February 1st, 2011 · 3 Comments · EDG, Music, Northfield, The Counterfactuals
Eleanor is the object of study for a linguistics course in language acquisition at Carleton taught by a friend. Every time this course is offered, pairs of undergraduates descend on local children to observe their language development over the course of a semester. We’ve learned that the students vary in their approach to the task. [...]
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Lights, Yiddish, Dancing!
August 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · EDG
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 · 8 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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