Truly amazing how we moved from 40 degrees plus last week, to low 20s this week. Robert and I are struggling with early cold symptoms and a nagging dry cough because of this drastic change.
We are starting to think hot cereal, and hot milk bottles, when a week ago it was a question of how [...]
Entries from March 2009
March 18, 2009
Last Days of Summer
March 15, 2009
Two Definitions for Nasty
Robert and I both can attest to the definition of nasty this week.
The little one has been teething and his canines (eye teeth) are giving a lot of trouble. At the beginning of the week I noticed that his top right canine has cut through, and two days later the bottom one followed. The of [...]
March 11, 2009
Names and Conversations
My boy knows everyone by name.
His teachers are : Teesa, and mawi ( Theresa and Marly), and the gardener is sissa (Fisher) – that last one comes out with a lisp so it is somewhere between thitha and ziza
A few weeks ago I started to teach him the concept of names: your name is Robert, [...]
March 11, 2009
Never Underestimate A Toddler’s Memory
One of Robert’s favorite teachers at school (actually the assistant at his class) has been absent for the last few days. I was chatting to his teacher when I picked him up today and I commented that he must have forgotten her already because when I mentioned her name to him he ignored it and [...]
