Category: koala update
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8 things I’ve already learned this Chanukah
It’s only the fourth night and I can point to eight things I’ve learned this Chanukah: Chanukah is really really really hard with comprehending kids and not much/no family around. Watching your other immigrant friends run around to local family parties with parents, in-laws, siblings, etc. is tough. Giving out-of-the-blue presents to a small child…
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Bebe update: Twenty months
Bebe, I’m starting to lose count of how many months you are. We’re pretty close to the end of the month-by-month thing. I’m very ready for a two-year-old you but but there are a few things I’m not ready to let you grow out of yet… The face you make when you do ‘foo’ on…
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What we learned at kindergarten today.
“So what happened at gan today? Did everyone like your new backpack?” “Yep.” “What did you eat for lunch?” “שעועית” “Beans? And?” “Pasta.” “Beans and pasta!” “And shnitzel. Shnitzel shnitzel shnitzel.” “What else happened in gan today?” The thing about pretending everything is fine, that we have to keep acting ‘normal’ so the terrorists don’t…
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Bebe update: Nineteen months.
I’m calling it: 7:11 am on November 8th – the day Bebe turns 19 months – the day she said her very first toddler-accented: NO! Despite that, I could just roll you in chocolate fudge, cover you in sprinkles, and eat you all day.
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Dressupween.
I loved dress up as a kid. I love it now. Long live dress up! In honor of my homesickness this week and canceled Halloween across New Jersey, we played dress up after gan today. Butterflies, princesses, and duck-faced farmers included. Fairies first. His combo… Shoes are the best part anyway. He particularly enjoyed becoming…
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Koala update: Three and a half years.
Dropping off my brother at his giyus this week did a funny thing, Koala. It made me realize how very big you are. And how very small. And how those two qualities will constantly be true, and constantly conflict, and constantly pose a challenge for me, and constantly fill me with love. I do hope…
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Aw man, I *need* your text messages.
Please SMS me. Please. I need texts. I need them every five minutes. Because while there are a lot of kid sounds you just don’t always want to hear – yelling in their sleep, farting, and whining of any color – but this one by little madam cheeks-a-lot Bebe just fills me with goodness every…
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Bebe update: Eighteen months.
I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes, I look at you, in your eyes, and you return it with a look that scares the crap out of me. I know it’s an unfair question, but promise to always love me, ok? You’re a year-and-a-half, B, and for some reason I’ve been looking forward to this mark for…
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Catching up.
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Bebe update: Seventeen months.
Transition is tough, little one, but here we are, all of us, flowing through it, year after year. Your first day of gan I came to get you, and before you spotted me I caught a glimpse of you and I saw my own little round face, as I imagine it must have looked, so…
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The time I taught Koala about the atmosphere.
I left at 1:50pm to pick Koala up from gan, which ended at two. Only by the time I had parked across from the gan’s front yard, and noticed the street was lacking other parked cars, and the yard was lacking children and laughter, I knew something wasn’t right. And it was Koala’s face. Buried…