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Simon

A love letter to Simon, age 6

1 February 2010

Happy Birthday, my dearest darling Simon. Today, you are six years old!

My dear Simon, where do I start to tell you how wonderful you are? You are a charmer and a character. If any member of our family goes on to win an Academy Award, or a Genie, or even to star [...]

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Love letter to Simon, Age 5

1 February 2009

My dearest darling Simon,
You are five years old today. Five! And you are five times as sweet, five times as smart, and five times as silly as you’ve ever been.

This has been a wonderful, busy, exciting year for you. Just after your last birthday, you welcomed your baby brother Lucas into your [...]

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(Nearly) Wordless Wednesday: My back-to-school boys

3 September 2008

Simon’s first day of Junior Kindergarten!

(My babies! What happened to my babies???)

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4022

5 July 2008

Four-thousand and twenty-two. It’s Simon’s magic number, a quantity that delineates anything between a lot and infinity. As in, “Is my time out done yet? Because I’ve been here for 4022 minutes.” Or, “When I grow up, I’m going to have 4022 webkinz.” Or, “Do I have to eat another [...]

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I swear that’s not what his birth certificate says

4 April 2008

I’m feeding Lucas and Tristan is in the kitchen colouring, out of sight but not earshot around the corner. Simon is engaged in some sort of imaginary play that involves a lot of talking. I can hear him stumbling over an idea.
Simon: Mommy!
Me: Yes, Simon?
Simon: What’s my second name?
Me: [...]

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Simon is four years old today!

1 February 2008

My dearest Simon,
Happy Birthday, my sweet sunny boy. I can hardly believe you are four years old already! I completed the paperwork this week to enroll you in school this coming September, and could hardly believe that you are old enough — and yet, I know you’ve been ready for this for months.

You [...]

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Simon’s party

19 January 2008

Phew! For nine months, I’ve been worried that the Player to be Named Later would arrive just in time to disrupt Simon’s birthday party. That’s not to say he might not still arrive on his due date to share Simon’s actual birthday, but at least we made it through the party uninterrupted!
We kept [...]

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Seven random things about… Simon

23 November 2007

About a million years ago, Laura from Lunatic Fringe tagged me for the “Seven Random Facts About Me” meme. I’ve done a bunch of these over the years, and it’s getting tough to come up with more fresh stuff that you don’t already know about me, which is part of the reason I’ve sat [...]

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Potty training redux

26 July 2007

So. Potty training. I’ve been through this once before, and even though it took three and a half years for Tristan to show the least little bit of interest in the potty, once we took the plunge it was a reasonably painless and mess-free process. It took four or five days and we had maybe [...]

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Pulling the plug

25 April 2007

I’ve noticed that almost every transitional milestone that marks the end of babydom has been later for Simon than for Tristan. Last child syndrome? Tristan nursed until he was nine months; Simon was closer to 19 months. Tristan was out of his crib at 20 months; Simon was 34 months. Tristan [...]

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