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Baby monitor

Posted on March 31, 2008
Since we let K cry it out when he was about 10 months old, he's been nearly a perfect sleeper. 11 hours, no fuss. But tonight he screamed at midnight. He calmed down after a minute or two, and then started back up again. After a little while, I went in and gave him a pacifier...

Return from the South

Posted on March 31, 2008
Highlights of the family vacation:* K learned how to walk!! Like crawling, he progressed gradually with walking -- he's been standing up on his own for months and cruising for even longer, and for a while he's been willing to take one step in between holding on to things...

Party like it's...

Posted on March 20, 2008
I just sent out invitations to my birthday party. Normally I am paranoid about throwing parties because I worry that no one will come, and that if they do come they will be bored. I am even more paranoid about using Evite because then everyone can see that only two of the ninety people I invited said yes...

Plum

Posted on March 18, 2008
I was eating a plum. JW came up and stood next to me and stared at it until I gave him a piece. He dropped it on the floor, then picked it up and ate it. He kept pointing and grunting for more. When I didn't give him pieces fast enough, he tried to grab the entire plum and lick it...

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Why married guys are hot

Posted on March 16, 2008
Roonie (welcome back!) confesses her crushes on friends' husbands.Of course you have crushes on your friends' husbands. Look at it this way. You meet a guy in a bar. He's cute, smart, and funny, and he seems into you. But you still think twice before handing over your number: what if he doesn't call like he says he will? If he does follow through, are you willing to let him break your heart?Now think about your friend's husband...

Journey to a foreign land

Posted on March 15, 2008
I keep thinking I should get back to my old workout routine. Wake up at 6:30, work out for about an hour, shower, get dressed, head out for the day.But realistically, this is my morning: wake up to crying baby at 6 a.m. if I'm lucky; entertain, feed, change, dress baby; try to find clean shirt and run to school...

Love at the Lexis session

Posted on March 14, 2008
Yesterday the guy sitting next to me at the Lexis session started chatting me up. I thought he was just being unusually friendly until he asked, "What are you doing tonight?" I said, "I'm going home to my kid."You know that feeling of infinite possibility you have when you're single? I have been married for five and a half years...

More things

Posted on March 13, 2008
K's new favorite toy is a school bus with a toy driver (Ralph) and a little girl to ride in it. It comes with a book about a boy who rides the bus on his first day of school. He wanted to read the book, but I couldn't find Ralph. "Where's Ralph?" I asked him...

Things

Posted on March 12, 2008
My current favorite K book is "One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish."I have no memory of reading this book when I was a kid. I must have read it, but when I picked it up recently it was completely unfamiliar. (It's not now. I have it memorized.) It's about all the pets that go by...

Faith in politicians

Posted on March 11, 2008
Lots of commentary, unsurprisingly, on Spitzer. I find it pretty unbelievable. (Then again, Buddy Cianci also ran as the anti-corruption candidate.)I didn't have a huge emotional attachment to Spitzer, but I did buy the hype about a tough, highly ethical politician who wasn't afraid to take on the bad guys wherever he found them...

Fridge-poking friends

Posted on March 11, 2008
JW and I have been living here for a while now. We have friends, who we invite over for dinner and meet for brunch. (Now that I think about it, we rarely seem to do any other friend activities, maybe because we don't want to subject them to kid stuff and we can't do any adult stuff...

53 weeks

Posted on March 10, 2008
Dear K,You are ONE. People call newborns "little bundles of joy," but that term describes you much better right now. You are always ready to laugh, play, and explore. I keep reading toddler books that talk about how to deal with your difficult child. You're about as far from a difficult child as you can get...

Procrastinating

Posted on March 09, 2008
I have been good this semester. I've been spending most of my non-K, non-JW, non-household minutes studying. Even so, I'm just keeping up -- no outlining for me.But tonight I am not being good. I'm not being productive. I'm not even doing anything fun...

Happy birthday, K!

Posted on March 05, 2008
We were trying to plan out K's nap schedule and decide accordingly when we should drive to Great-Grandma's house in the Bronx for the party. "Who are we kidding?" I said. "He'll nap for twenty minutes in the morning, refuse to go down at all in the afternoon, and have a meltdown five minutes after everybody shows up...

12-month doctor's appointment

Posted on March 04, 2008
Quick recap: 15-20th percentile in both weight and height. Sounds about right for our family.Time to start drinking whole milk instead of formula. The doctor said we could finish the formula we have, or start doing half-milk, half-formula. He said there's no need to wean to a cup until about 15 months and then we can do it gradually, switching out one bottle a day at first...

Bus adventures

Posted on February 27, 2008
I have been taking the bus a lot lately.Yesterday I went to see PBB and Becca! Becca was asleep the whole time but I got to hear some adorable newborn noises. Newborn-land is like New York City -- I love to visit, but I'm glad I don't live there.Today I went to pick up the car...

Duck, duck, duck, cake

Posted on February 25, 2008
Another week gone by, no time to blog. I was hoping to at least post a picture of K's second Mommy-inflicted haircut. The first, right around Thanksgiving, was too short but arguably decent. This one is completely uneven and looks as though I snipped away haphazardly while he was distracted by his duck in the tub, which not coincidentally is true...

(Not) Graduating

Posted on February 17, 2008
The other day a friend said something about graduation. "I don't think I'm going," I said. "It would be fun to see everybody, but I'm not graduating and I'll have already started my summer job." (Hahvahd does not deign to work with the schedules of peasants...

A taxing Valentine's Day

Posted on February 15, 2008
Nothing like calling a V-Day time-out so you can read about the different ways of structuring a corporate liquidation.Ooh, baby. I love it when you step up that basis. Step it up. Step it up to FMV. Yesss.It's been a busy week with lots to say but no time to blog...

As such

Posted on February 08, 2008
From the BHA home page:The Boston Housing Authority is the largest landlord in Boston and the largest public housing authority in New England. As such, the BHA houses approximately 10 percent of the city's residents through its programs.This is the first time in MONTHS, maybe more, that I've seen "as such" used correctly...

Tiny adventures in baby development

Posted on February 06, 2008
A few small, non-milestone things that K has been up to:* Head-shaking. K sometimes looks at me seriously and shakes his head. (I don't think he's saying "no." He may be saying something, but I don't know what.) I can't resist mirroring his expression and shaking my head back...

Super Tuesday quote of the day

Posted on February 05, 2008
Straight out of a movie: on our way to the polls, we saw a police officer walking down the hall with a young African-American boy. As they passed us, we heard the officer say, "If you keep doing well in school, I don't see why you couldn't be president one day...

Snacktime takeover

Posted on February 03, 2008
I'm a big boy. I can feed myself!Ten minutes later I was still wiping yogurt out of his hair.

Applicants

Posted on January 31, 2008
I've been talking to two types of applicants lately: high school seniors applying to college, and people applying to my student organization. Just so I can get it out of my system, here's the advice I wish I could give them. Of course, it won't do them any good here...

Almost-11-month update

Posted on January 29, 2008
What K has been up to:Drinking. Last week he learned how to drink from a sippy cup by himself.Eating. All manner of things, including dalya (an Indian dish of cracked wheat, lentils, and vegetables), spinach casserole, and quiche. Last night I made him a scrambled egg with broccoli and cheese for dinner, and he had strawberries for dessert...

Fall grades

Posted on January 23, 2008
I want not to care. But my grades matter to me. I feel like I'm not earning money and this is my job now, so I should at least do well in school. (I know, already have a job, but that's not why I care.) Tax: B+. Bummed, thought I did well on that final and that I really knew the material...

$160,000

Posted on January 22, 2008
Over at Ms. JD, a first-year biglaw associate discusses a meeting with law firm partners about work-life balance. The partners' view was basically, "Your starting salary is obscene, so don't complain to me about balance."To me, the most interesting part of the post is that she describes law firm partners as "angry" about the ever-increasing first-year associate salaries...

Book review: The Power of a Positive No

Posted on January 20, 2008
I reviewed Getting to Yes a few years ago. The Power of a Positive No is by one of the same authors, William Ury. He refers to this book as a "prequel" because it discusses ways to assert yourself and protect your own interests, while Getting to Yes and its companion volume Getting Past No focus more on the other side in a negotiation...

Girls 2, boys 0

Posted on January 17, 2008
It's college interview season. I had four interviews to schedule, two with girls and two with boys. I'm always interested to hear the reaction when I first call up -- is it excitement, trepidation, or "I already filled out the stupid applications, is this lady STILL trying to make me think about college?"The two girls I called were enthusiastic and polite...

Not an infant, not yet a toddler

Posted on January 16, 2008
Lately K has been protesting when we stop him from, say, eating a giant dustbunny off the bottom of an overturned footstool. But today was the first full-out display of toddlerish willfulness. I had his dinner all ready: spaghetti with tomato sauce, green beans, and tofu, with grapes for dessert...

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